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he prospective funding period 2014–2020 gradually takes concrete shape: On May 6 and 7, the German kick-off confer- ence “Transnational Cooperation in Europe – That’s how it will continue!” took place in the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infra- structure in Berlin, presenting the new INTERREG Operational Programmes. State Secretary Rainer Bomba opened the conference. The participants of the political panel, among others Walter Def- faa, Director General of DG Regional Policy of the European Commission, discussed the future of European cooperation. The day finished with a project slam and an evening reception. The second day of the conference was dedicated to the active stakeholders: Thematic workshops and seminars informed about the six new programme regions with German participation. The more than 400 participants gave a great feedback about the event.Also the Federal Programme “Transnational Cooperation” is already actively supporting project stakeholders who are preparing for the new funding period. The next deadline for submit- ting applications to get an Initial Funding for the development of an INTERREG B application is the 25 July 2014; the key date for national co-financing applications is the 17 October 2014. The revised application documents are published on www.interreg.de.
Last but not least we want to say “Good Bye!”
This is the last Newsletter of the Federal Pro- gramme “Transnational Cooperation”. In the future, news about the Federal Programme will be integrated in the INTERREG Journal, which is published three-monthly in German language.
Please find all editions and information about the programme on www.interreg.de.
Thank you for being our loyal reader during the last four years and enjoy the summer time!
Yours, DV-Team
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THEMES
Innovative measures for urban and regional development
AQUAFIMA City Regions
Best Agers Lighthouses Page 2–3
Energy efficiency in town planning and housing
AlpBC
Longlife Invest Page 4
Regional development by innovative transport projects
RAILHUC Page 5
Nähere Informationen finden Sie unter den Web-Adressen der Projekte auf der letzten Seite.
DATES 2 July 2014 AlpBC
Municipal Dialogue „Building Culture and Energy“
Bergen im Chiemgau 4 September 2014 Longlife Invest
Conference “The Tenement of the Future – Ready for Energy Transition and New Housing Requirements”
Berlin
16/17 September 2014 Best Agers Lighthouses
Final Conference “Employment for the Future:
How should the Baltic Sea Region respond to ageing workforces?”
Riga
24 September 2014 City Regions
Final Conference „Positioning of Urban Regions in European Strategies“
Dresden
14–16 October 2014 RAILHUC
Final Conference Bologna
Newsletter June 2014 Bundesprogramm
Transnationale Zusammenarbeit
This newsletter informs about the Federal Programme Transnational Cooperation. With this programme, the Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development supports German project partners in European projects of strategic political relevance for the Federal Governement on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure.
More Information on the Federal Programme at:
www.interreg.de or www.deutscher-verband.org
German Association for Housing, Urban and Spatial Development | DV-GmbH
Heike Mages, Littenstraße 10, 10179 Berlin
Phone +49 (0)30/206 41 690 | Fax +49 (0)30/206 41 691 interreg@deutscher-verband.org
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quaculture is a growing industry: The demand on seafood is increasing, but at the same time, many natural species are threatened by overfishing. Controlled breeding can produce relief. In the Baltic Sea Region, aquaculture is playing a minor role so far: Germany imports nearly 90 percent of its processed fish, which causes negative impact on the ecosystem. However, labour market, environment, tourism and fish quality could ben- efit from a sustainable local fish breeding. Therefore, in 2013 also the EU put aquaculture on the top of its agenda, launching a plan for the Reform of the Common Fisheries Policy. The challenge is to benefit from the advantages of fish breeding without risking dramatic impact on environment and ecosystems. All the more, as the Baltic Sea yet has a high nutrient level: Being densely popu- lated and having a low water exchange rate, it is very sensitive to human pressures.During the past three years, the European project “AQUAFIMA”
has worked intensively with the potential and the problems of a growing aquaculture industry in the Baltic Sea region.
Hence aquaculture, being largely practiced in Asia until now, in Europe increasingly is coming to the fore. In the EU, there exists an estimated gap of eight million tons of seafood between the consumption and the fish catch. A sustainable aquaculture pro- duction can help to serve the increasing demand on fish without continuing to burden the stocks. Furthermore, the industry´s employment opportunities have to be exploited. The European Commission now has demanded national strategies on the coor- dination of aquaculture development for the next seven years.
“Aquaculture has a high priority in the new funding period.
People should get active now: The iron is hot!” appealed Raimond Veesers from the Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries in the European Commission during the final confer-
AQUAFIMA
How aquaculture can support regional development
ence of “AQUAFIMA”, together with its sister project “AQUABEST”
in February 2014 in Mariehamn, Finland.
A big challenge for aquaculture is the nutrification of the Baltic Sea. This can – at least partly – be compensated with mussel or seaweed cultivation. Closed systems have less dramatic impact on the sea, but they are also more expensive. But: What is first?
Economic efficiency or environment protection? It got very clear in the conference that opinions diverge on this question.
However, regardless of whether aquaculture industry is stimu- lated primary or whether there are first made investments in the protection of the environment: In each case intense research is crucial. Hence in the EU can only be established a long-term sustainable aquaculture when there are suitable guidelines and quality standards.
In this regard, “AQUAFIMA” has already performed good prepar- atory work. Under the lead partnership of the “Landgesellschaft Mecklenburg-Vorpommern”, the project adopted an approach based on regional development. The partners identified stocking measures for different species in the Baltic Sea and analyzed pos- sibilities of an area-based fisheries management. Furthermore, they developed modules for an international e-learning master course for aquaculture at the University of Rostock, in order to secure the next generation of young skilled staff. They informed people with photo exhibitions and events about the advantages of local aquaculture and fish consumption. As a result, guide- lines for policy makers emerged. For the implementation, the continually close cooperation between all Baltic rims is deter- mining.
www.aquafima.eu
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he project “City Regions”aims at the improve- ment of cooperation between core cities and neighbouring municipalities. In five regional pilot projects the partner cit- ies and regions are evaluating methods and initiatives of cooperation in different fields of interest and develop further existing cooperations. Addi- tionally the partners investi- gate the positioning of urban regions in the EU Structural Policy and in macro-regional strategies.
A striking example for the benefits of better coopera- tion between cities and their hinterland is provided by the strategic planning process, which is implemented in Torino. In a difficult economic situation and motivated by the expected reorganisation of the provincial government, the city launched an intensive dialogue with 38 surround- ing municipalities to identify jointly strategic projects of spatial development. In the
Halle/Leipzig region the coop- eration is focused on the joint development and marketing of commercial and industrial areas. In the urban regions of Wrocław, Graz and Prague, the partners investigate issues of local and regional mobility and the provision of social and green infrastructure.
On 24 September 2014 the partners will summarise the findings of the project during the final conference, which will take place in Dresden.
Main focus will be the con- tribution of urban regions to the EU Urban Agenda in the current programming period 2014–2020 and the role of urban regions in European spatial development. A trans- national group of experts prepares the discussion with guidelines and issue papers.
Commercial sites in the Halle/Leipzig region
City Regions
Practical steps towards better cooperation in urban regions
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www.city-regions.eu www.best-agers-lighthouses.eu
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he consequences of demographic change severely affect the labour mar- ket. Many sectors are increa- singly being confronted with a shortage of skilled workers which impedes the competitive- ness of companies. The project“Best Agers Lighthouses“
addresses the question how employers can adapt to chang- ing demographic conditions and turn them into their advan- tage.
In the course of the project, nine companies and public institu- tions from around the Baltic Sea implement approaches of age management. All employees – regardless of their age – benefit from these activities aiming at a more life course oriented career management, better health management or better compati- bility of family and work. Bene- fits for the employers include e.g. a higher productivity and motivation of the workforce, reduced sick leave and a better knowledge management inside the organisation.
The project partnership monitors and evaluates the implementation processes scientifically in order to assess the concrete economic con- sequences of the age man- agement interventions. The participating organisations then will be communicated as
“lighthouses”, i.e. they func- tion as practical examples for an economically sustainable promotion of older employees.
As part of an additional module funded by the Federal Programme “Transnational Cooperation“, a networking conference involving various projects dealing with demo- graphic change was held in Berlin in February 2014.
The 43 participants discussed about future project approach- es and developed a joint posi- tion paper which called for more attention to demography in the EU programmes of the next funding period.
Best Agers Lighthouses
Strategic age management in SMEs and public organisations
Employees of the Finish energy provider and “lighthouse” Pori Energia
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AlpBC
Energy-related renovation in the Alps
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n the “AlpBC” project, eleven partners continue with the approaches of the predecessor project “Alp- House”. Lead Partner is the Chamber of Handicrafts for Munich and Upper Bavaria.They develop regional strate- gies in order to support the alpine building culture. There- by, the focus is on energy- efficient refurbishment. With its results achieved so far, the project contributed to various events in the past year.
For the first “Participative Symposium” in November 2013 in Bregenz, the Energy Insti- tute Vorarlberg, an Austrian partner, organized 23 work- shops, together with further stakeholders from planning, construction, energy and industry. Furthermore, the international participants had the possibility to learn more about energy efficiency, renewable energy and renew- able resources in the building sector.
In January 2014, AlpBC also presented its results on the
“Monumento” in Salzburg. This is a trade fare which is open to the general public. It repre- sents an important platform, where everyone dealing with cultural heritage preservation, conservation and restoration can exchange knowledge and experiences.
Beyond, the project partners developed a concept for a regional competence centre in the Lead Partner region Traunstein. It is directed to architects, building contractors and craftsmen and shall offer them information, consulting and training around the topics of energy efficient construction and refurbishment in the Alpine Space. Furthermore, there was set up an AlpHouse competence centre in the Italian region Aosta. Within this framework, there was also drafted a trans- national strategy for AlpHouse centres.
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Biomass farm Achental in the Chiemgau
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Training seminar about sustainable construction
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in Klaipėda. This standard also was in the focus of a training seminar about sustainable construction, which was held by the project partners in November 2013 in Vilnius. Daiva Matonienė, Vice Minister for the Environment in Lithuania and the head of the department for passive houses from the same ministry took both part in the discussion. More than 75 archi- tects, engineers and adminis- trative officials participated in the altogether three training seminars. The experiences have fed into the guideline “Green Construction with Longlife Benchmarks”. All partners from
“Longlife Invest” will be avail- able as trainers for further train- ing seminars.
In July 2014, the project partners will visit a housing complex in Denmark which has been realized by using the “Longlife Standards”. They have been invited by the Association for Housing in Zealand, an associ- ated partner in the “Longlife Invest” project.
Longlife Invest
Student residence in Klaipėda
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he project “Longlife Invest”has completed the prepara- tory measures for the construc- tion of a student residence in Klaipėda. The “Longlife Prototype Catalogue” which had been developed in the pre- decessor project, was a helpful tool for the sustainable and cost efficient planning of the stu- dent residence. Consequently, the main focus of the residence planning was on the energy concept. At that, the Universities of Technology from Berlin and Gdansk worked closely together.
Currently, the building applica- tion is being prepared together with the executing company.
According to Lithuanian law, it has to include the complete implementation planning. In this context, the new Lithu- anian standard for energy effi- ciency classes places enormous demands. Lithuania adopted it during its EU Council Presi- dency in 2013. The standard will be mandatory from 2016 onwards and already is being applied in the student residency
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www.railhuc.eu
port to the future high speed railway hubs in an efficient and effective way.
The Metropolitan Region used the opportunity, supported by the „Federal Programme“, to elaborate a rail passenger transport concept. The mayors of the region have decided on its successive realisation in February 2014. It contains four main elements: Consolidation of the rail network and ongo- ing investment, creation of an integrated harmonised Cen- tral German Headway, setup of a common tariff structure, and close cooperation structures for organisation and coordina- tion of transport.
The German Association for Housing, Urban and Spatial Development supports the region in preparing the imple- mentation of the concept, in particular with regard to participation, moderation and communication.
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he „European Metro- politan Region Central Germany” is made up by the cities of Leipzig, Halle, Gera, Jena, Dessau-Roßlau, Zwickau und Chemnitz. Additionally, Dresden, Erfurt, Weimar, and Magdeburg are functionally closely interlinked. The eco- nomic power of the region is great, whereas it faces a number of challenges in par- ticular to retain its competitive- ness.The attractiveness of the region will decrease without a reliable and appealing mobility offer. With regard to the long-distance transport offer thinned out from 2017, a good supplementary supply in local and regional transport is thus necessary. However, public financial limits to this supply are evident. The project
“RAILHUC – Rail Hub Cities”
provided substantial response to the question of how to connect cities in the Metropo- litan Region that are no longer served by long-distance trans-
RAILHUC
Central German Metropolitan Region imple- ments new “Rail Passenger Transport Concept”
Leipzig central station
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Regional development by innovative
transport projects Projects Cofinanced by the Federal Programme Transnational Cooperation
Innovative Measures for Urban and Regional Development
ACT4PPP – Public-Private partnerships: www.act4ppp.euAGORA 2.0 –Economic Development in the Baltic Sea Region:
www.agora2-tourism.net
AQUAFIMA – Sustainable Management of Fishery: www.aquafima.eu BEST AGERS – Demographic Change: www.best-agers-project.eu BEST AGERS LIGHTHOUSES – Age Management for SME:
www.best-agers-lighthouses.eu
CITY REGIONS – Partnerships between cities and regions:
www.city-regions.eu
CREATIVE CITIES – Strengthening and Professionalization of the Creative Industry: www.creativecitiesproject.eu HELPS – Requirements of Accommodation for Elderly People:
www.helps-project.eu
MANDIE – Managing District Centres: www.district-management.eu SECOND CHANCE – Creative Reuse of Industrial Culture:
www.secondchanceproject.eu
SHIFT-X – Activating old-industrial heritage for cultural activities:
www.shiftx.eu
WOMEN – Stopping the emigration of young women:
www.women-project.eu
Regional Development by Innovative Transport Projects
AMBER COAST LOGISTICS – Freight Traffic between East and Central Europe: www.ambercoastlogistics.comINTER-REGIO-RAIL – Regional Rail Transport: www.interregiorail.eu RAILHUC – Cities and Regions as European Transport Hubs:
www.railhuc.eu
SCANDRIA – Infrastructure and Economic Development:
www.scandriaproject.eu
SONORA – Infrastructure and Economic Development:
www.sonoraproject.eu
SUSFREIGHT – Nachhaltiger Güterverkehr: www.susfreight.eu TRANSITECTS – Transalpine Freight Traffic: www.transitects.org VIAREGIAPLUS – West-East Connection: www.viaregiaplus.eu
Energy Efficiency in Town Planning and Housing
ALPBC – Climat-efficient Buildings in the Alps: www.alpbc.eu LONGLIFE – New Buildings’ Energy Efficiency: www.longlife-world.eu LONGLIFE INVEST – Energy-efficient student residence:www.longlife-invest.eu
URB.ENERGY – Integrated Urban Development Concepts:
www.urbenergy.eu
Spatial Planning Strategies to Adapt to Climate Change
BALLAST WATER OPPORTUNITY – Managing Ballast Water:www.northseaballast.eu
BALTSEAPLAN – Spatial Development on the Sea: www.baltseaplan.eu C3-ALPS – Adaption to climate change in the Alps: www.c3alps.eu CLISP – “Climate-Proof” Spatial Planning: www.clisp.eu
LABEL – Flood Risk in the Elbe River-Basin: www.label-eu.eu
