CITYREGIO II – CITYREGIO II - Regional economic development through co-operation within city-regions
Project No.
5D059
Lead partner
Urban Planning and Development Institute of the City of Pilsen
Skroupova 5
30584 Plzen
Czech republic
Skroupova 5
30584 Plzen
Czech republic
Contact person
| Mr. Milan Svoboda | |
| Tel.: | +420378035000 |
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| Fax: | +420378035002 |
| Email: | svoboda@mmp.plzen-city.cz |
Priority/Measure
1 - Spatial development approaches
1.2 - Shaping urban development
1.2 - Shaping urban development
Call for project proposals
4th Call
Short description
Whereas many West European conurbations are already efficient promoters of regional economic development for their surroundings, such "lighthouse functions" of city regions still have to be established in the CADSES area.
CITYREGIO II bundles six second-order cities and their respective regional partners or national regional development authorities - depending on the national distribution of competencies. The cities involved in the project are surrounded by peripheral regions which largely depend on the economic success of the urban centre.
Coherent spatial development following the Lisbon and Gothenburg targets as well as the recent Beaupuy Report drafted by the European Parliament or the draft strategic guidelines for European Cohesion Policy depends on the capacities of city regions in their role as centres of growth and regional leadership. However, second-order cities in the CADSES region rely on co-operation with their surroundings to bundle their diverse approaches of economic development.
CITYREGIO II increases the capacities of selected city-regions and spurs their economic development building on a profound knowledge base elaborated through the previous CITYREGIO project (e.g. regional location information system, feasibility studies for strategic investments, clustering of SMEs) that allows the involved city-regions to quickly move towards the realisation of concerted economic (cluster) promotion activities, human resource management and location development initiatives.
Results and Effects
CITYREGION II aims at strengthening the capacities of the urban centre and its surroundings for efficient collaboration through an exploitation of CITYREGIO results by practical implementation in the partner city-regions.
The overall objective of the project is to strengthen the economic capacity and competitiveness as regional drivers of growth for the entire region through effective city-region co-operation.
Project budget
| Total budget (EUR): | 1.603.747,00 EUR |
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| ERDF: | 999.658,00 EUR |
Duration
| Start: | 04/2006 |
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| End: | 03/2008 |
Project Partners
- Urban Planning and Development Institute of the City of Pilsen, Plzen, Czech republic
- Regional Development Agency for the Pilsen Region, Plzen, Czech republic
- City of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
- District of Muldentalkreis, Grimma, Germany
- District of Delitzsch, Delitzsch, Germany
- District of Leipziger Land, Borna, Germany
- South-Transdanubian Area and Economic Development Public Utility Company, Pécs, Hungary
- Municipality of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary
- Municipality of Kaposvár city, Kaposvár, Hungary
- Municipality of Szekszárd, Szekszárd, Hungary
- City of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
- Aufbauwerk Region Leipzig GmbH, Leipzig, Germany
- Gdansk Entrepreneurship Foundation, Gdansk, Poland
- City of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland
- Municipality of Varna, Varna, Bulgaria