Moeve Foundation has joined this week the Santa Cruz de Tenerife City Project, an initiative to transform the urban fabric led by the city council and with the participation of the Metrópoli Foundation. The project seeks to design a city model capable of improving its competitive advantages, achieving cohesion and social balance, committed to innovation, improving employment opportunities, culture and quality of life, among other aspects. And it will do so by leveraging the city’s components of excellence and unique values and identifying key initiatives that ipromote competitiveness, productive diversification, environmental and cultural sustainability, in addition to the cohesion and social development of the population.
The associated research, which will allow us to design the city of the future, is based on Fundación Metrópoli’s own study methodology based on its experience in more than fifty cities around the world. The mayor of Santa Cruz, José Manuel Bermúdez, said during the signing of the agreement that he was “very happy with this project that involves these two foundations that are a guarantee of doing things well, a project that will have public-private collaboration and with the opinion of the citizens to transform and improve our urban environment for the future” and also said that “Santa Cruz is the result of 536 years of successes and errors, and that now we want the future of the city to start from the greatest number of successes and opportunities”.
It is, according to its promoters, an opportunity to develop a territorial project backed by strong social and institutional support, which will allow guiding, based on common and agreed objectives, the actions of local public and private initiatives, coordinating the sectoral interventions to be carried out in the territory from the regional and national levels. To this end, the three entities involved will identify and promote the creation of alliances with companies and other institutions so that they can contribute to the comprehensive development of the project’s work plan, sharing information, knowledge, experience and new methods to promote innovation and sustainability in the sustainable design of the capital.
In the first phase, Fundación Metrópoli will carry out a comprehensive analysis of the territory, covering aspects such as plans and projects underway, urban design, the environmental system, and the social and productive structure. This analysis will culminate in an initial technical diagnosis, which will be validated in a forum with the key actors of the city. In a second phaseAfter the conceptual design of the strategic project hypotheses, which will be evaluated in a second city forum, the final document of conclusions will be prepared.
During the signing of the agreement, the director of the Moeve Foundation, Teresa Mañueco, highlighted that “we are facing a unique and exciting project. Our Foundation wants to contribute to facilitating Santa Cruz’s path towards greater sustainability of the city where Cepsa was born, recently transformed into Moeve, 95 years ago. Just as the city has seen the company and its foundation grow and develop, now we want to help it reach its best version through the design of the city of the future, to transform itself to become a benchmark for sustainable development,” he stated.