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Forschungsabteilung 1

Coronas Metropolitanas / Interreg IIIC

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An international Interreg IIIC initiative funded by the European Structural Fund
Duration: 09/2003 – 11/2006

 

The Issue
The project “Coronas Metropolitanas” aimed at developing strategies for the re-balancing of the relation between metropolitan centres and neighbouring areas. Four institutes and public authorities from the metropolitan regions Madrid, Rome, Athens and Berlin developed strategies for a re-balanced development with different priorities.

Background
Metropolitan Regions are economic engines as well as international hubs. Consequently they usually play a very dominant role within their surrounding region. Regions, that border at the metropolis, are converted into suburban areas, characterized by heavy daily commuter traffic into the metropolis (first ring). On the other hand, cities situated peripheral to metropolitan regions are confronted by strong population decreases as well as functional deficits (second ring) and deficits in respect to their econ-omy, infra- and city structure.

Partner Specific Objectives
In this context, the Madrid partner developed strategies to decrease urban congestion as well as to influence mobility patterns within the territory of the Northwest Consortium and between these cities and the capital city.
Rome on the other hand focused on endogenous potentials and accessibility of municipalities within the first ring.
Supported by the Joint Planning Commission of Berlin – Brandenburg as well as the Berlin Senate Department for Economics, Labour and Women’s Issues the IRS developed strategies for an “intelligent location marketing” that supported the development of a stronger knowledge based economy in municipalities of the outer development region in Brandenburg.
Finally Athens faces heavy commuter mobility between the metropolitan center and its first and second metropolitan ring. Therefore the Greek partners aimed at developing focused traffic guidance systems.

Interreg IIIC and its objective
The co-operations under INTERREG IIIC were supposed to give access to experiences of other actors involved in regional development policy and to create synergies between "best practice" projects and the Structural Fund’s mainstream programs. The overall aim was to improve the effectiveness of regional development policies and instruments through large-scale information exchange and sharing of experience (networks) in a structured way.
Interregional cooperation was to improve the effectiveness of regional development policies and instruments through large-scale information exchange and sharing of experience (networks). Strand C particularly focused on underdeveloped regions and those undergoing structural adjustment.

The Partnership
The project brought together partners from different areas of research as well as practitioners from regional planning and development authorities. The trans-national project group consisted of the following institutions:

    IRS Contribution to the Project
    The project aimed at exchanging experience on methodology and project-based activities. The goal was not merely a transfer of knowledge, but a genuine cooperation in realizing various parts of the project, with a significant added value to the project partners and other participants.
    The municipalities situated at the border between the inner and outer development region of the met-ropolitan area of Berlin were (and still are) characterized by strong population decreases as well as functional deficits and deficits in respect to their economy, infra- and city structure. The reasons for these deficits do not only lie in their peripheral location in respect to the metropolis of Berlin, but also in their historical development. As former East German municipalities, their economy was not oriented at modern Western market economies. Urban development followed different principles and focused on a continuing enlargement of cities with new housing areas, relying on a constantly increasing popula-tion. Urban renewal and gentrification were neglected. After the wall came down in 1989 and East and West Germany were reunited in 1990, most municipalities lost an enormous part of their population due to a decreasing birth rate, unattractive cities (due to poor housing and neighborhood conditions), opening of new building land in surrounding areas, high unemployment rates, and poor accessibility.
    After the municipalities as well as federal funds mainly focused on urban development programs over more than one decade after the unification, the cities started to put more emphasis on strengthening their economic basis in order to keep their young, well educated inhabitants. Since the metropolitan area of Berlin – Brandenburg had a poor industrial basis, but a high level of qualified human capital due to numerous institutions of higher education as well as modern innovation and technology parks, the future growth and employment area was be found in the New Economy, especially in knowledge based services. With this background the project carried out by the IRS focused on supporting an intelligent location marketing to strengthen the new economy in Brandenburg. The project also wanted open up concrete fields of co-operation between the cities as well as between the cities and Berlin.

    Milestones

    Kooperation von Wissenschaft und Wirtschaft in der Metropolregion Berlin-Brandenburg
    Abschlusskonferenz am 30. November 2006

     

    Workshops

    Ideen gesucht für das Marketing der FH Brandenburg
    Workshop am 17.10.06 an der FH Brandenburg

     

    Marketing des Wissenstransfers
     Workshop am 04.10.06 an der FH Eberswalde

     

    Herausforderungen und Chancen für Unternehmen und FH Brandenburg in der neuen Wirtschaftsförderpolitik
    Workshop an der Fachhochschule Brandenburg am 30.05.2006

     

    Erfolgreiche Beispiele aus der Praxis der Kooperation zwischen Wirtschaft und Wissenschaft
    Workshop an der Fachhochschule Eberswalde am 20.02.2006

     

    Was kann die Fachhochschule Brandenburg für die Wirtschaft der Region leisten
    Workshop an der Fachhochschule Brandenburg am 18.11.2005

    • Jörn Krupa (IRS): Gelungene Kooperationen und Kooperationshemmnisse : Auswertung der Interviews zur Kooperation zwischen regionalen Unternehmen und der Fachhochschule Brandenburg

     

    Was kann die "grüne" Fachhochschule Eberswalde für die bunte Region Barnim leisten
    Workshop an der Fachhochschule Eberswalde am 20.09.2005

    • Jörn Krupa (IRS): Gelungene Kooperationen und Kooperationshemmnisse : Auswertung der Interviews zur Kooperation zwischen regionalen Unternehmen und der Fachhochschule Eberswalde

     

    Publications
    KUJATH, Hans Joachim; KRUPA, Jörn (Hrsg.) (2010): Fachhochschulen als regionales Potenzial - zur Kooperation von Wissenschaft und Wirtschaft in der Metropolregion Berlin-Brandenburg Erkner : IRS, 2009. - 131 S. : (Regio transfer ; 7)

    KRUPA, Jörn; SCHMIDT, Suntje (2009): Fachhochschulen als Wissensknoten in metropolnahen Stadtregionen. In: Matthiesen, Ulf; Mahnken, Gerhard (Hrsg.): Das Wissen der Städte: Neue stadtregionale Entwicklungsdynamiken im Kontext von Wissen, Milieus und Governance. Wiesbaden, 275 - 289

     

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