Evaluation of the community Event

Rimini - 26 October 2006

La Fête du Carré 2006

Created in 1973 : 29 000 inhabitants

Sénart is the youngest New Towns out of five in Ile-de-

France Region

Sénart, 30 kmsSouth-East far from Paris

Sénart Today106 000 inhabitants

Sénart Tomorrow120 000 inhabitants

Sénart

The main Goal : to create Sénart Identityamongst community event

The festival enhance the Carré Senart development : its layout, its constructions,

its sites…

Since 2000, every 2 years, a regular rendez-

vous for Senart inhabitants

A town center in construction

The primary objectives of this

event are

To reinforce the sentiment of belonging to a town and to a

community.

To participate in the drafting of the future town center : “the

Carré Sénart”.

To invite the population to a festive community event.

An organisation that uses the territories ressources: population

participation, association networks, companies, volonteers, youth...

This festival is now the main event in the south of Paris and particularly for the New Town of Sénart,

Remember, 30 000 people 14th July 2004, 35 000 people 14th July 2006

Population participation increased !

The « Fête du Carré » 2006 : building an

artistic outlook

• Some figures on the festival

• 42 music bands and companies

• 14 amateur bands « talents of sénart »

• 600 actors (145 volunteers)

• 24 associations

• 18 companies

Questionnaires : a way to evoluate

2 kind of questionnaires

- public questionnaire

- questionnaire for volunteers

2 main reasons

- improve the festival organization

- empower the community to draft events

First steps : Questionnaire to improve the knowledge of the public

Questions Answers

Why are you here today ?

25 % to be with family andfriends20 % for the fireworks16 % by curiosity

By what form at transport didyou come to the festival ?

65 % by car15 % by bus special event 7 % by bicycle

If you are « sénartais », doyou participate to Sénartlife ?

51 % participate 11 % Volunteers 2 % Elected members

Results at a local level

Actions

2004 a satisfactory questionnaire for inhabitants about the community event

2006 a new questionnaire for inhabitants

2006 a questionnaire for volonteers ( inhabitants and civil servants )

Results

Increase the knowledge on social indicators, implementation, evaluation and drafting.

Results at a local level

- The empowerment of participants through the transnational approach

- The exchange of informations of good practices and knowledge do enable the construction of a commun culture

- Cross fertilisation, best understanding of european projects, different logic of thinking, transnational methodology drafting

Thank you for listening !

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