Iasi - Orizont 2020

Last week I connected on Liknedin with Henk Procé. He was one of the members of the Dutch Consultancy team that developed the Strategic Development Plan for Iasi "Orizont 2020" in 2007.

At the time when this plan was intensely discussed in 2007 I was not aware of it. But now, one year after it was launched, it finally came to my attention.

I took the time to read some articles that were written in the last quarter of 2007 about this project:

Ziarul de Iasi - S-au ales cele 10 proiecte de dezvoltare a Iasului (Romanian)
Newsiasi - Brandul "Iasi, oras al inspiratiei", contestat inca de la aprobare (Romanian)

The opinions in the media were mainly critical, but I think that this had mainly to do with the politic factors. The war between the political parties before the local elections that were organized in 2008.

I also started reading the document. You can find it in English on the website of the City Hall: Iasi Regional Development Strategy 2020.

My personal opinion is that the plan is quite good and the suggested priorities are quite close to what I think that should be done for Iasi.

Unfortunately I didn't find a lot of information about the follow-up on this plan.

After I finish reading the whole document I will share some more information in future posts.