Description
Description (EN): The TP LAB (Territorial Planning Laboratory) would be implemented in the cooperation of two Slovak and two Hungarian institutions, dealing with spatial planning and territorial information services. The target area of the project includes Bratislava and Trnava counties on the Slovak side and Győr-Moson-Sopron county on the Hungarian side. All these regions have shown substantial economic growth and an intensive agglomeration process - Bratislava, Győr - including cross-border suburbanization in the past few decades. At the same time the target region has lots of natural, cultural and landscape values. Csallóköz/Žitný ostrov (Slovakia) and Szigetköz/Malý Žitný ostrov (Hungary) are important areas of nature conservation and ecotourism, which also has a lot of unsolved water management issues.
In order to reduce agglomeration pressure, improve urban environmental quality, ensure sustainable utilization of natural resources and balanced territorial development, furthermore facilitate the proper choice of best places for different developments, TP LAB project aims to:
- involve stakeholders and decision-makers from local and regional authorities and NGOs,
- support their multi-level spatial planning, territorial decision making, territorial monitoring through commonly operated web services, so called GIS data and Service Center (GDSC),
- specify the data set and tools of GDSC through joint assessment of needs,
- establish two local information and training centers - Living Labs – in Győr and Bratislava. These will assist users of GDSC in their proper use and training of local and regional authorities, investors, citizens, spatial planners and university students, NGOs,
- enhance knowledge transfer and capacity building.
The project activities should facilitate more efficient coordination of cross-border institutional cooperation and public services, decision-making processes and the open, up-to-date and widespread use of data and information.
Read more Achievements (EN): TPLAB Web Service - User manual:
One of the main objectives of the TPLAB (Territorial Planning Laboratory) Project is to create a common information platform with the use of recent data about the area of interest consisting of three counties (Győr-Moson-Sopron County, Bratislavský kraj, and Trnavský kraj). The produced geodatabase and other map information is available on a public service platform for the interested professional organizations, universities, decision makers, NGOs, and other actors. The available application may be useful in the planning and decision-making work as it provides the current data on social, economic, and environmental processes and their spatial projection. Furthermore, the scientific actors (students or scientists) may be interested about the webservice’s analytic, query and other information platforms.
http://tplab.lechnerkozpont.hu/en/web-service
LivingLab - Laboratory manual:
TP LAB project is implemented with the support of the European Regional Development Fund within the framework of the Slovakia-Hungary Cross-Border Territorial Cooperation Programme. The leading partner of the project is the Lechner Knowledge Centre Non-profit Ltd., project partners are the Slovak Institute of Spatial Planning (abbreviation: IPP), the West Pannon Regional and Economic Development Public Benefit Non-profit Ltd. in Győr and the SPECTRA Centre of Excellence of the Slovak Technological University in Bratislava. The TP LAB project contributes to the objectives of the Operational Programme 4.1 by providing services that can strengthen and facilitate territorial planning, decision-making and cooperation between municipalities, local authorities and investors in the target area, thus ensuring harmonious development and a balanced territorial structure. The project aims to establish a common cross-border digital data and information service portal to support the coordination of spatial development, and to design and model organisational and institutional arrangements for its further development. Interested users will be trained to try out, test and use the TPLab portal's functionalities in Pozsony / Bratislava and Győr at LivingLab locations, i.e. local service offices, and through online tutorials that will guide them step-by-step through the application's features. The local offices act as living labs with trained staff to help users use and test the regional information web service. Regional and local development practitioners, decision-makers and university students can use the service to gain experience and knowledge, for further use and to contribute to the further development of the system set up. The manual describes the conditions and possibilities of operation and use of the local laboratory (service office), and also includes a user manual for the TP LAB Web Service, the geographic information service of the project.
Data needs assessment- Summary report:
Within the framework of the TP LAB project a data and information service platform will be established for the area of the, Bratislava, Trnava and Győr-Moson-Sopron Regions (especially focused on the area of Žitný a Malý žitný island) in cooperation with the Institute of Spatial Planning (IPP), the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava (STU), West-Pannon Nonprofit Ltd. and the Lechner Knowledge Centre in Hungary with the support of the Slovakia-Hungary Interreg V-A Programme. The objective is the coordination of spatial planning and harmonization of decision-making between regions closely related to each other but being divided by the border, and to improve communication and the availability of information online. In the first phase of the implementation of the project being completed in the framework of the Slovak-Hungarian Cross-Border Cooperation Programme, the project partners have realised a questionnaire survey (April 2021) aimed at potential stakeholders and users of TP LAB services. On the Slovak side 19 and on the Hungarian side 45 organisations responded to the questions related to the web service (spatial data, tools), and training, as well as usage needs. This paper contains the results and evaluation of the survey. The partnership of the project, as well as the wide local involvement, and the existence of close and living relationships with local and regional institutions and authorities served as a basic starting point, resp. in this context during the sending of the questionnaire and the assessment of the potential stakeholder group.
Curriculum for using the GIS data and Service Center (GDSC - TP LAB):
You could use the GIS data and Service Center (GDSC) under the Web service tab.
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Website: http://www.skhu.eu
Expected Results (EN): The cooperation between the SK and HU actors is currently in the discussion phase. Through the capacity building events, trainings, and by means of the developed GIS Service, representatives of the local and regional municipalities, local authorities, NGOs, real estate developers and investors, spatial planners, professionals, academia will be reached. The project partners will help the stakeholders to tackle common challenges along the border. The GDSC Service will open the way for new cooperative planning and development actions in the quaternery, terciary, secondary sectors, like for instance advanced industries, sophisticated services and innovative education, research and dissemination of knowledge. Better awareness of the characteristics, qualities and changes of the regional structure will facilitate the experiments with foreseen actions and evaluation of the ensuing processing and consequences and allowing interventions to anticipate forthcoming challenges and promote the promising outcomes.
Read more Expected Outputs (EN): 3, Outcomes:
- Identification and involvement of stakeholders (1 stakeholder plan, SK/HU), organizing 2 events (invitations, agenda, minutes + other documentation) - output: 2 events, 15-15 addressed stakeholders.
- 2 interactive web surveys (SK, HU).
- Partnership plan (EN).
The stakeholders can be the representatives of municipalities, state owned organizations, NGOs, enterprises, students (future professionals) and authorities involved in territorial development, spatial planning, land use (zoning) regulation and in some sectoral developments (tourism, water management, real estate development etc.).
Planning partners can participate in the testing process of GSDC too. All remarks and recommendations will be discussed, responded and documented. Based on the opinion, remarks and recommendations of stakeholders, project partners can specify the concrete needs of end users and can determine the technical specification of web services. In the frame of this process, the basic data set, the relevant indicators developed in the project, and most important GIS tools can be identified.
4, Outcomes:
- Purchase of Hardware – output: hardware equipment (located in premises of LB - Lechner Nonprofit Ltd. in Budapest and in premises of B1-IPP in Bratislava).
- Purchase of Software – output: software equipment (located in premises of LB - Lechner Nonprofit Ltd. in Budapest and in premises of B1 - IPP in Bratislava).
- Technical specification of service (set-up of the technical framework) - output: 1 document.
- Facilitating access to official “planning” documents, data and information based on the local needs - meta-information system.
- Database of 30 selected indicators – outputs: 1) structure of the database and 2) online publication in form of website.
- Operation and maintenance guidebook on the data and GIS service (HU-SK).
Besides basic data, the GDSC will provide specific indicators (e.g. indicators on urban environmental quality, fragmentation of habitats, landscape characteristics, urban sprawl etc.). Concrete data, indicator set and GIS tools depend on the result of needs assessment. The main source of the data are the followings:
- Database of the Eurostat - Database of the Regional Spatial Planning Information System;
- Spatial plans of local and regional municipalities (including land use layer and infrastructure);
- Indicator database developed in frame of this project (based on the database above and on other information e.g. maps from Copernicus Programme).
To assist the spatial planning process and territorial decision making - in the frame of the project - the concepts (Slovak and Hungarian terms) of spatial planning (in a new spatial planning glossary) and territorial elements will be harmonized, and approximately 30 new indicators will be created regarding urban environmental quality, landscape characteristics, green infrastructure, urban sprawl, natural risk. The GDSC is more than database, it is the center of spatial services and web-based applications, suitable infrastructure for all of the stakeholders.
5, Outcomes:
- Purchase of equipment - output: hardware & software equipment. Living Lab in Bratislava including all equipment will be located in working place of SPECTRA Centre of Excellence on Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava (Vazovova 5, Bratislava). B2 equipment will be located in its Győr Office (9021 Győr, Arany J u. 28-32).
- Creation and functioning of the centers, which will be responsible for providing data and information, testing and monitoring of GDSC created under activity 4. Output: 2 Living Labs, Laboratory handbooks (SK-HU).
The staff have an important role in continuous improvements of GDSC based on the assessment of user experience. They can also assist the elaboration of common Slovak-Hungarian spatial plans. The centers will support regular consultation opportunities for target groups as users of the GDSC services. The forms, methods of stakeholder involvement will be specified in the above mentioned partnership plan (1.3 Needs assessment) and modified based on needs defined by the specific target groups. The Handbook will provide enough information for the proper operation of the office system.
6, Outcomes:
- Training of the staff – output: trained staff (3-3 people in Győr and Bratislava).
- Training for the stakeholders output: trained stakeholders (15-15 people in Győr and Bratislava).
- Curriculum for training (SK_HU).
- New media tools for distance learning.
Students from relevant educational institutions in the field will also be involved in the use of this service. Regional and local development actors, practitioners will use this service for gaining experience from practice and contribute to the further improvement of the established system. New media tools will be used in order to support distance learning and accessibility of training/teaching activities.
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Thematic information
Specific Objective:
Improving the level of cross border inter-institutional cooperation and broadening cross border cooperation between citizens
Thematic Objective:
(11) enhancing institutional capacity of public authorities and stakeholders and efficient public administration through actions to strengthen the institutional capacity and the efficiency of public administrations and public services related to the implementation of the ERDF, and in support of actions under the ESF to strengthen the institutional capacity and the efficiency of public administration.
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Investment Priority:
(11 ETC) ETC specific, for cross-border cooperation: enhancing institutional capacity of public authorities and stakeholders and efficient public administration by promoting legal and administrative cooperation and cooperation between citizens and institutions
