Regional Integration and Metropolitan Development of South Eastern Europe

Programme 2000 - 2006 Cadses

Date of latest update: 2021-04-06

Description

Description (EN):

The RIMED project deals with three serious and interacting problems of South-Eastern Europe: increasing spatial inequality, serious geographical and economic fragmentation and unbalanced or even anarchic growth of metropolitan areas leading to a further concentration of activities. The latter may lead to traffic congestion, pollution, environmental degradation and social segregation, which threaten to undermine the prospects of large cities for sustainable development. RIMED proposes a development strategy for South-Eastern Europe which is based on transnational networks of co-operation and which promotes polycentric urban development with widespread effects to the hinterlands of the large cities. The project is based on a network of co-operation among four important cities in the region, Sofia, Skopje, Tirana and Thessaloniki, and involves the administrative as well as scientific institutions from these cities.

Achievements (EN):

This project managed to improve co-operation and to establish networks of interaction among major cities in South-Eastern Europe. In that sense it contributed to the general goals of the EU and international community in promoting stability, integration and co-operation in the region. In addition, the project contributed to a balanced and polycentric spatial development in the wider context of South-Eastern European space by supporting selected cities with a joint strategy of metropolitan development, which has a strong preference for regional cohesion and spread effects to metropolitan hinterlands. Other important effects include the improvement of local governance through a network-based transfer of know-how and experience.

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Urban development Regional planning and development

Partners (12)

Lead Partner: UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY (SEED Center), Department of Planning and Regional, Development,

Address: Pedion Areos, 38334 VOLOS, Greece

Legal status: n/a

CITY OF SKOPJE

Name: CITY OF SKOPJE

Address: 1000 Skopje, North Macedonia

Legal status: n/a

INSTITUTE OF LABOR

Name: INSTITUTE OF LABOR

Address: 1000 Tirana, Albania

Legal status: n/a

THESSALONIKI ORGANIZATION

Name: THESSALONIKI ORGANIZATION

Address: 54631 Thessaloniki, Greece

Legal status: n/a

DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE DEPARTMENT OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS AND DEVELOPMENT

Name: DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE DEPARTMENT OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS AND DEVELOPMENT

Address: 69100 Komotini, Greece

Legal status: n/a

CYRIL AND METHODIUS UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF ECONOMICS

Name: CYRIL AND METHODIUS UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF ECONOMICS

Address: 1000 Skopje, North Macedonia

Legal status: n/a

INSTITUTE OF ECONOMICS

Name: INSTITUTE OF ECONOMICS

Address: 1000 Skopje, North Macedonia

Legal status: n/a

PREFECTURE OF TIRANA

Name: PREFECTURE OF TIRANA

Address: 1000 Tirana, Albania

Legal status: n/a

UNIVERSITY OF TIRANA FACULTY OF ECONOMICS

Name: UNIVERSITY OF TIRANA FACULTY OF ECONOMICS

Address: 1000 Tirana, Albania

Legal status: n/a

Община София

Name: Община София

Address: 1058 SOFIA, Bulgaria

Legal status: n/a

BULGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES INSTITUTE OF ECONOMICS

Name: BULGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES INSTITUTE OF ECONOMICS

Address: 1040 Sofia, Bulgaria

Legal status: n/a

UNIVERSITY OF ARCHITECTURE, CIVIL ENGINEERING AND GEODESY DEPARTMENT OF URBAN PLANNING

Name: UNIVERSITY OF ARCHITECTURE, CIVIL ENGINEERING AND GEODESY DEPARTMENT OF URBAN PLANNING

Address: 1421 Sofia, Bulgaria

Legal status: n/a

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Summary

Project name (EN): Regional Integration and Metropolitan Development of South Eastern Europe

Project acronym: RIMED

Project start date: 2003-01-01

Project end date: 2005-10-30

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 1 162 000.00

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 549 000.00

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Financing programme

2000 - 2006 Cadses

Last month that data in keep.eu was retrieved from the Programme's website or received from the Programme

2019-09-02

No. of projects in keep.eu / Total no. of projects (% of projects in keep.eu)

134 / 134 (100%)

No. of project partnerships in keep.eu / Total no. of project partnerships (% of project partnerships in keep.eu)

1 612 / 1 612 (100%)

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Regional Integration and Metropolitan Development of South Eastern Europe

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