Câmara Municipal de Águeda

We carry out a significant number of strategic projects for the municipality, using the Community Funds to obtain maximum funding (eg Construction of Educational Centers, Casarão Business Park, Urban Rehabilitation, among others).
In the dynamization of cultural action, a number of actions and initiatives have been developed (for example,...

We carry out a significant number of strategic projects for the municipality, using the Community Funds to obtain maximum funding (eg Construction of Educational Centers, Casarão Business Park, Urban Rehabilitation, among others).
In the dynamization of cultural action, a number of actions and initiatives have been developed (for example, Agitágueda and the Umbrella Sky Project, activities of the Manuel Alegre Municipal Library, etc.), for the definitive affirmation of the Municipality as a cultural, commercial, industrial and leisure destination. As well as the construction of important cultural facilities, such as Águeda Arts Center and Inca - Águeda Cultural Incubator.
Strong sports poster, with the slogan Sport is Life, allows the promotion of sports activities for all people, as well as Adapted Sport, contributing to improve the health of all, allowing the enjoyment of conditions and quality of Life in affirmation of the right of citizenship.
The Municipality of Águeda has an unemployment rate below the national average, with the latter reaching essentially middle-aged and poorly qualified women. The Autarchy, in result of the economic crisis, has tried to find solutions for the integration of this population, thus guaranteeing social cohesion, with the project 100(DES)Empregados.
The aging population and the low birth rate, mean that the Municipality of Águeda is faced with a progressive reduction of the population. However, with the establishment of companies in the Business Park of Águeda and the need to resort to external labor, it leads the organization to look to the future with optimism for a reversal of the situation.

In education, several interventions have been carried out, in an integrated and integrative way of resources, promoting the action of all stakeholders and interested parties in order to guarantee the success of the educational project.
The current Municipal Executive assumed the education as a strategic vector of the development that it...

In education, several interventions have been carried out, in an integrated and integrative way of resources, promoting the action of all stakeholders and interested parties in order to guarantee the success of the educational project.
The current Municipal Executive assumed the education as a strategic vector of the development that it intended for the county, not limiting its performance to the competences foreseen in the legislation. In a first phase, it was committed to the renovation of the entire School Park, giving it better teaching and learning conditions for all the children and young people of the county. With the launch of the new Educational Centers, the time has come for a new organization and the establishment of more ambitious goals for a fundamental sector of our society, such as the Águeda Educação+ project, creating pilot classes with teaching by tablets, Thus preparing our children for an Information and Knowledge Society.
The ALL - Águeda Living Lab, a space open daily to the community, duly equipped and with the necessary technical support, where activities related to Digital Fabrication and Rapid Prototyping (FABLAB) are carried out, Accompanied Workshops (Mobile Applications, 3D Modeling / Arduino, Robots Micromouse, Photonics, etc.), Technological Workshops, Virtual Reality, among other initiatives related to Technology. The objective of this space is to actively cooperate in an environment of innovation, creativity and experimentation, reinforcing the collaboration network and establishing a point of dialogue and meeting of ideas among the various agents of the community, having been initiated by the students of the schools of the Municipality , In order to attract and attract young people to the development of activities that include new technologies, arousing the desire and taste of the young to follow by technological areas.

After creating the conditions for the establishment of productive units in the Municipality, we will continue the effort to attract companies, support the dissemination of the industrial units of the county in fairs and other events and promote clustering.
In the strategy adopted by the Municipality, the Municipal Executive promotes a set...

After creating the conditions for the establishment of productive units in the Municipality, we will continue the effort to attract companies, support the dissemination of the industrial units of the county in fairs and other events and promote clustering.
In the strategy adopted by the Municipality, the Municipal Executive promotes a set of measures to support families and companies, which highlights the exemption of IMI for 4 years, exemption from the pledge, with the objective of attracting investment (domestic and foreign). Associated with these initiatives, the concern to be increasingly efficient and to reduce the costs of the CMA to its citizens, which can be clearly evidenced through the reduction achieved in taxes and fees. The CMA remains committed to alleviating tax burdens on families, thereby improving living conditions and attractiveness of the county, by abdicating the income associated with IRS, IMI, municipal tax, transit taxes , Civil protection, etc.
The bet on incubation will continue to be a premise and new conditions will be created through the start up of the Multigenerational Space. Reinforcing the idea of attracting companies to Águeda and creating more jobs, the CMA also bets on support for entrepreneurship, that is, it allows low cost new ideas / companies to be tested in laboratory conditions, with specific support, and in the case of Business ideas, later released. Between the 1st and 2nd year of activity of the Incubator, there was an increase of companies / business ideas of 75%, which is explained by the installation of the Incubator in a space with greater capacity for physical incubation and by the investment made At the level of business support services.
Over the last few years, we have been investing heavily in the socio-economic reinforcement of the Municipality, with the Casarão Business Park (PEC-Águeda), which responds to a long-felt weakness of the municipality, due to a lack of affordable industrial land.

The CMA is certified according to the standards NP EN ISO 9001 and NP ISO/IEC 27001. We implemented a Health and Safety System at Work. The use of these benchmarks allows us to know the best practices of international management and ensure their practical implementation in the CMA.
The CMA uses a number of computer applications that...

The CMA is certified according to the standards NP EN ISO 9001 and NP ISO/IEC 27001. We implemented a Health and Safety System at Work. The use of these benchmarks allows us to know the best practices of international management and ensure their practical implementation in the CMA.
The CMA uses a number of computer applications that gather all the information of all stages of any process. In order to ensure the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the information, we implemented NP ISO/IEC 27001, ensuring that the information is safe and cannot be lost or tampered with.
In 2009 we began our journey towards excellence by achieving the level of recognition Committed to Excellence from EFQM. In 2017, we achieved the 2nd level of excellence, Recognized for Excellence.
Since the first process map was drawn up in 2006, it has undergone some improvements, in order to adapt it to the reality of CMA and its customers, through process re-engineering to ensure that processes are aligned with strategy and vision. The process map is subdivided into 3 blocks (Management Processes, Service Processes and Support Processes), is supported by stakeholders' needs and expectations, identifies all CMA stakeholders (internal and external) and serves as Support for strategic map and PDE activities.
Considering that the challenges of the future are a high technology society, the entire organization is supported by a technological system that allows us to constantly monitor costs, tasks and goals.
We have implemented the Participatory Budget for Águeda, a municipal area of a deliberative nature, where citizens over 16, natural and / or resident in the municipality of Águeda, as well as those who are affected by academic issues, can identify, debate, prioritize and To vote projects, up to € 500,000, per year.
The implementation of the epaper project, making us a paperless municipality, so that citizens can handle their affairs without the use of paper.
Regarding transparency, we provide documents, means and indicators to citizens, through the web page of the municipality, to evaluate the autarchic activity and suggest actions to improve Municipal Governance.
Rationalize and promote the valuation of people. Manage the available human resources to provide each one the opportunity to reveal and put into practice all their capacities, providing professional training and providing conditions for the affirmation of their potential.

To promote the sustainable development of the Municipality, focusing on the valorization / qualification of public spaces, creating conditions for all, by improving the visual and functional quality of spaces, as well as environmental quality and enhancement of natural resources.
Rapid intervention in Pateira, the largest natural lagoon...

To promote the sustainable development of the Municipality, focusing on the valorization / qualification of public spaces, creating conditions for all, by improving the visual and functional quality of spaces, as well as environmental quality and enhancement of natural resources.
Rapid intervention in Pateira, the largest natural lagoon in the Iberian Peninsula, as the starting point for a structured intervention in the area of conservation and protection of nature and biodiversity, enhancing the valorization of natural areas and the development of ecotourism.
We started a route connecting the city to the river, strengthening and articulating its green areas, renewing public space and equipment, fully exploiting its human capacities, developing a modern city that extends Competitive and sustainable, people-centered, capable of fulfilling its leverage role and attracting investment.
Under the Covenant of Mayors and in the Energy Cities, we have implemented the Plan of Action for Sustainable Energy, which aims, among others, to reduce CO2 emissions. In this strategy, we have taken on the ten commitments of sustainability of Local Agenda 21 and committed ourselves to Mayors Adapt in a collective effort with the European municipalities in adapting to climate change.
We have been trying to make the territory more congenial than the space as a city, in an intelligent territory promoting the introduction of technologies that make the lives of citizens easier, always looking for the concepts of smart city to be expanded and fit into a Human Smart City.
The implementation of the Sustainability and Competitiveness Agency for the Region of Aveiro gained meaning and gives substance to the work that has been carried out.
Talking about energy efficiency, the Municipality has entered into a power supply contract, in OMIP Market, which allows it to achieve economies of scale in the energy area. At this level we also highlight the intelligent lighting system using LED technology, and the management and monitoring system, which allows us to adjust the tenders to citizens' needs, generating significant savings that are channeled to an Energy Efficiency Fund, which will be applied in further energy efficiency measures, in line with the interests of the population.
Regarding water efficiency, some actions that we implement place us among those that most effectively deal with this issue, however we want to implement some even more innovative actions in the country.
We have developed SMART SPECIALLISATION STRATEGY (S3) in line with the policies defined by Europe for the implementation of future Europe 2020 Cohesion Policies at the level of the Employment and Sustainable Growth Agenda.