NALAS Knowledge Centre

By gathering local government associations, municipal elected officials and experts on various topics, NALAS has a unique opportunity to generate knowledge of great value for the authorities in South-East Europe. It is also a major objective for NALAS to stimulate the exchange of information and experiences among its members.

The processes of knowledge discovery, generation, capitalization and dissemination make up the NALAS Knowledge System, as shown on the diagram below. The main part of the Knowledge System is the NALAS Knowledge Centre.

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NALAS Knowledge Centre is a “topic oriented knowledge centre”, which gathers, stores and disseminates documents and information on the member associations and local authorities in SEE in general and also focuses on topic-oriented material drawn from the NALAS task forces’ productions. The NALAS Knowledge Centre is being built upon existing libraries and networks and it complements them by adding value and content significant for the target audience. The strength and the focus of the Knowledge Centre is the content – or the knowledge – itself. Especially important is the knowledge found in cross-border analysis, comparisons and best practices. In addition, equally valuable is the collection of challenges common for the region, as well as any implemented and or proposed solutions. The NALAS Knowledge Centre gathers products of the NALAS task forces and working groups and produces value-added content that complements available products that are considered important, but may be overlooked for some reason.