CONSPACE – Common Strategy network for Spatial Development and Implementation

2A050

Office of the Government of Carinthia
Wulfengasse 13
9020 Klagenfurt
Austria

DI Peter Fercher
Tel.:	+4346353632002
Fax:	+4346353632007
Email:	post.abt20@ktn.gv.at
Homepage:	http://www.conspace.info/

1 - Spatial development approaches
1.1 - Promoting spatial development

(See here for a priorities and measures overview)

1st Call

The region involved in the CONSPACE project faced a pre-accession situation and it is geographically and functionally an interface also to future EU enlargement. The region is characterised by highly diversified types of landscapes with a vast natural and cultural heritage. The system of central places is without a dominating agglomeration. The linking of the north/south and east/west transport corridors (TEN and TINA corridors) creates a strong impact on accessibility, economic location development, economic exchange and future prosperity. There has been a tradition of exchanging information within the region as part of the Alps-Adriatic working community and the previous period of INTERREG. However, the administrative structures, planning systems, planning philosophies and systems of basic information needed for regional development issues are still quite different. The resulting inconsistencies have a negative impact on a more balanced development of the region.

The project partners used a set of core planning data and indicators based on compatible systems of GIS (Geographic Information Systems). These databases have been used as a tool for analysing transnational regional development indicators, for identifying the mutual impact of the accession process on both sides and for activities in environmental protection. The existing development plans and programs and their planning procedures and approaches have been analysed and documented; the useful elements for the development of a transnational development strategy have been identified with a specific focus on the polycentric structure of the region, its natural and cultural heritage, and on the interconnection of its regional transport networks to the TEN and TINA corridors. The list of tasks contains follow-up activities at different administrative or legal levels to secure a sustainable framework for common actions and recommendations for policy actions in the future. The strategy will include goals and visions, an identification of resources and stakeholders, a definition of development opportunities with special emphasis on innovation and structural change, a timetable for actions and a set of strategic measures of implementation. Furthermore, CONSPACE achieved that: - Administrative bodies exchange information on regional strategies, - Public institutions lobby in their regions for an integrated spatial development, - Partnership links are being established, - Common planning guidelines, plans or land use plans have been developed, - Strategies and perspectives for CADSES sub-regions have been created, - Participating regions are aware of supply/demand inconsistencies and act against it, A considerable number of partners have improved their legislative setting for better cooperation, are promoting compatibility of their databases and information instruments, and have made use of project results in their urban development and restructuring plans.

Total budget (EUR):	2.046.875,00 EUR
ERDF:	838.000,00 EUR

Start:	04/2003
End:	06/2006

• Office of the Government of Carinthia, Klagenfurt, Austria
• Office of the State Government of Sty-ria, Graz, Austria
• Veneto Region - Spatial Planning De-partment, Venice, Italy
• Province of Gorizia, Spatial Planning office, Gorizia, Italy
• Autonomous Region of Friuli - Vene-zia Giulia, Trieste, Italy
• Ministry of Environment, Ljubljana, Slovenia
• Ministry of Environmental Protection and Physical Planning, Institute for Physical Planning, Zagreb, Croatia
• County of Primorje & Gorski KotarCounty Institute for Sustainable Development and Spatial Planning, Rijeka, Croatia
• Region of Istria, Institute for Physical Planning of Istrian region regional self-governments, Pula, Croatia
• South-Transdanubian Regional Development Agency, Kaposvár, Hungary