Transcript Thiemo ESER - Metroborder

METROBORDER
Cross-Border Polycentric Metropolitan Regions
Building and Using Integrated Territorial Strategies
ESPON seminar, Rome, 4.12.14
Estelle EVRARD, University of Luxembourg
on behalf of the Transnational Project Group
‘CBPMRs‘ – where are they?
The spatial setting: The
Functional Urban Areas
(FUAs) of the cross-border
polycentric metropolitan
regions (CBPMRs)
Questions to address
1. What is the added value of integrated approaches to the development of
territories?
2. What concepts and experiences exist in building integrated territorial
strategies for macro-regions and across borders?
3. How could integrated strategies be further promoted and contribute to
current policy challenges?
Questions to address
1. What is the added value of integrated approaches to the development of
territories?
2. What concepts and experiences exist in building integrated territorial
strategies for macro-regions and across borders?
3. How could integrated strategies be further promoted and contribute to
current policy challenges?
Face growing functional interdependencies
Place of residence of high-tech and KIS
workers employed in Luxembourg and
number of persons working in the
Luxembourg MUA, 2005...
... a cross-border logic
... with still visible border effects
Fig. 3 (p. 38): Cross-border commuters in
metropolitan areas, 2000 and 2006
(sources and spatial units: see appendix,
chapter 9)
Face growing functional interdependencies
Developing a common understanding of cross-border spaces
Greater Region – Upper Rhine
Functional Urban Areas
Facing competition?
Metropolitan accessibility?
Number of flights per day and
airport for the two case study
regions and their surrounding
areas
Developing complementarities
Questions to address
1. What is the added value of integrated approaches to the development of
territories?
2. What concepts and experiences exist in building integrated territorial
strategies for macro-regions and across borders?
3. How could integrated strategies be further promoted and contribute to
current policy challenges?
Numerous challenges
The five most important barriers for an enhanced
cooperation in both case study regions (Delphi study)
cross-border
Investigating multi-level governance
The ‚Summit of the Greater Region‘ as
a multi-level cooperation
The ‘Upper Rhine Conference‘ as a
multi-level cooperation
Investigating multi-level governance
left: cross-border institutions and their
perimeter within the Upper Rhine region
right: cross-border institutions and their
perimeter within the Greater Region
Investigating multi-level governance
What role for the EU? Results from the Delphi study (n GR= 156, n UR =89)
Investigating multi-level governance
Metroborder project: an interactive process with stakeholders – meetings and workshops:
• EU & consultation committee
• Greater Region
• Upper Rhine
Consultation Committee, Walferdange, March 2010
Developping a common vision
Questions to address
1. What is the added value of integrated approaches to the development of
territories?
2. What concepts and experiences exist in building integrated territorial
strategies for macro-regions and across borders?
3. How could integrated strategies be further promoted and contribute to
current policy challenges?
Tailor-made institutionalisation of cross-border cooperation
Upper Rhine “Scenario
2:”Two-level
cooperation”
Tailor-made institutionalisation of cross-border cooperation
Developing options for the
Greater Region:
- “Economic metropolis”
- “Laboratory of Europe”
- “Mobile and accessible
region”
Institutional options for the EGTC Greater Region
Strengthening a common understanding of cross-border interdependencies
Political input
e.g. Joint Declaration
of the Summit of the
Greater Region, 2011;
„Spatial planning and
Transports Sectorial
Meeting“ (2013)
Source: Sommet, 2013: 162
Communicating and looking for synergies
e.g. IMEG (Initiativkreis
Metropolitane
Grenzregionen)
Source: http://www.metropolitane-grenzregionen.eu
Cooperation with
other networks
Conclusions
1. Added value of integrated approaches to the development of territories
Balance competition & cooperation
2. Concepts and experiences to build integrated territorial strategies
Multi-level governance (from the EU to the local level)
Common strategy
3. How could integrated strategies be further promoted and contribute to
current policy challenges?
Tailor made institutionalisation
Communication and synergies with other networks
METROBORDER
Cross-Border Polycentric Metropolitan Regions
Building and Using Integrated Territorial Strategies
ESPON Seminar, Rome, 4.12.14
Estelle EVRARD, University of Luxembourg
on behalf of the Transnational Project Group