Description of Selected Best Practices

According to the CASTLE methodological document for best practice consolidation (Output 3.1.a) partners carried out an analysis of the best practices within their regions, on the bases of the CASTLE project themes and of a joint description format.
Partners which qualified as donors of Best Practices Templates supplied altogether 41 practices descriptions, as summarized in table below.
According to the methodological document agreed by the partners, the bestpractices should target on clustering, networking and cooperation in logistics with a focus on SMEs. The best practice consolidation should:

  • help policy makers to improve their capacity of building logistics policies, support regional economic competitiveness and logistics environmental sustainability,
  • create a logistics culture, through the transfer and the exchange of best practices,
  • create new knowledge and skills for logistics improvement.

According to those criteria 20 most suitable best practises have been selected in view of the first CASTLE Forum of the 28th September 2009, in order to include those best practices with special stress on SME’s participation and public bodies involvement and most relevant to CASTLE. The considered practises have been marked in bold in the above table. All the other best practices will be jointly analysed by the partners in order to grasp any possible useful input to the improvement of policy making of the partners and of other EU regions.

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