It initiated from the collaboration agreement signed in 2007 by Alicante Provincial Council (Diputación Provincial de Alicante) and the savings bank CAM -as strategic partners- with the Foundation Metrópoli -knowledge partner-.
[1] A team led by the president of Metropoli Foundation,[2] the architect Alfonso Vegara,[3] who was President of ISOCARP (2002–05) and received the "European City and Regional Planning Award" of ECTP-CEU in 2006, conducted an analytical report that contains a wide range of solutions for the Province of Alicante.
They were inspired in the philosophy of the "Smart Places"[4] and as result of a selection of its proposals Province of Alicante Innovation + Territory Programme was released, financed and offered to the civil society by the strategic partners for free.
Alicante I+T Programme is based in the "European Spatial Development Perspective"[5] and the European Commission's Communication "Putting knowledge into practice: a broad-based innovation strategy for the EU”[6] to the Council, the Parliament, the Economic and Social Committee, and the Committee of the Regions, as well as the "Europe Innova Initiative"[7] under the 6th Framework Programme.
Nowadays, finished its promotion, Alicante Innovation + Territory is in the area of Local Development of that Provincial Council.