METROBORDER Cross-Border Polycentric Metropolitan Regions

Building and Using Integrated Territorial Strategies

ESPON seminar, Rome, 4.12.14

Estelle EVRARD, University of Luxembourgon behalf of the Transnational Project Group

The spatial setting: The Functional Urban Areas (FUAs) of the cross-border polycentric metropolitan regions (CBPMRs)

‘CBPMRs‘ – where are they?

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?

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

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Greater Region – Upper Rhine Functional Urban Areas

Developing a common understanding of cross-border spaces

Metropolitan accessibility? Number of flights per day and airport for the two case study regions and their surrounding areas

Facing competition?

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?

The five most important barriers for an enhanced cross-border cooperation in both case study regions (Delphi study)

Numerous challenges

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

Investigating multi-level governance

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?

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

Tailor-made institutionalisation of cross-border cooperation

Strengthening a common understanding of cross-border interdependencies

Source: Sommet, 2013: 162

Political input e.g. Joint Declaration of the Summit of the Greater Region, 2011;

„Spatial planning and Transports Sectorial Meeting“ (2013)

Cooperation with other networks

e.g. IMEG (Initiativkreis Metropolitane Grenzregionen)

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Conclusions

1. Added value of integrated approaches to the development of territories

Balance competition & cooperation

2. Concepts and experiences to build integrated territorial strategiesMulti-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 institutionalisationCommunication 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 Luxembourgon behalf of the Transnational Project Group