NANTES

France

The project team from Nantes, France, wanted to turn a high-level strategy into something concrete and measurable. Building collaboration and trust between stakeholders was key to their approach and success.

The city’s strategic actions under the overall strategic plan ‘Bien Grandir A Nantes’ (“Growing up well in Nantes”) focusses on reducing social inequality, creating coherent educational services and strengthening educational continuity for young people. It aims to ensure a “whole-person” approach.

The team needed to coordinate a wide range of stakeholders, but realised that finding a common set of values is difficult. With the education department being restructured, both change processes happened in parallel. This meant they had to be managed flexibly, responding to local conditions and activity.

Nantes’ story is one of a co-creative process. Working collaboratively helped the group to respond to changes, work in new ways and gain new perspectives on their own work and role in the implementation process.