Strengthening of Quality of Life through Improved Management of Urban Rural

Programme 2007 - 2013 Baltic Sea Region

Date of latest update: 2021-04-06

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Description (EN):

Regions and municipalities are the key actors in managing urban-rural interactions and their impacts on quality of life. The conditions for urban-rural interactions are dependent on developments both at micro (individual) and at macro (planning) levels. These parallel processes are of specific relevance in the key pillars of quality of life in urban-rural context: (1) residential preferences; (2) mobility & accessibility and (3) provision of services. Due to the lack of coherent policies, strategies and their implementation these developments may have negative impacts not only on sustainable regional development, but also on quality of life and thus to the attractiveness of the particular region. Due to this the individual perspective need to be systematically analyzed and introduced to the planning processes throughout the Baltic Sea Region (BSR). Project aims to improve the management of quality of life in urban-rural planning. The project evaluates potentials for more sustainable urban-rural interactions within the BSR. Project produces and implements new working methods and pilot models to improve the management of quality of life that correspond to the needs of people living in the BSR. The project focuses on individual preferences and future potentials with regard to the three key pillars. The project analyses the preferences of different population segments and stakeholder groups in urban-rural areas and compare them to the existing policies and practices. Based on these results project defines and implements pilot actions in partner city-regions. Project develops new planning tools and introduces an integrated management approach to urban-rural interactions. To benefit also other city-regions, project produces a training package and a set of policy and practice recommendations for regional and national level. The project consortium consists of 15 partners from 9 BSR countries. The project Lead Partner is Union of the Baltic Cities (UBC). The expertise organisation Nordic Centre for Spatial Development (Nordregio) will carry out the evaluation of the potentials and suggestions of pilot actions. The Centre for Environmental Technologies and Administration (ECAT-Lithuania) will coordinate the implementation of pilot actions and development of the management of urban-rural interactions. The project consortium with local and regional partners covers widely the BSR. The associated partners represent the relevant transnational, national and regional level authorities and organisations.

Achievements (EN):

The New Bridges project 'Strengthening of Quality of Life through Improved Management of Urban Rural Interaction' (2009-2012) has been developing novel methods and new perspectives to city-regional planning around the Baltic Sea Region. The main achievements were 1) Improved urban-rural interaction and more coherent city-regional planning across the administrative and sectoral borders. 2) Development of more inclusive and participatory regional planning methods involving different stakeholders and especially the residents of the regions in the planning process. Important results of the project were the Pilot Actions, local projects implemented by the 7 NEW BRIDGES partner city-regions. The Pilot Actions were built around the three key elements of the project: residential preferences, production of services and mobility and accessibility. The local Pilot Actions varied from sustainable mobility plans to parts of joint city-regional master plans. The scope and the scale of the Pilot Action varied but all had certain aspects in common: improving quality of life in the region by taking into account better the individual perspectives of local residents and other stakeholder groups and increasing the cooperation between urban and rural municipalities aiming at more integrated regional planning. Involving local actors in the planning process through concrete actions like local stakeholder meetings helped to better understand the value of planning together with the goal of creating better living environments. The project has also focused on further conceptualizing the concept of Quality of Life. Published handbook “Managing Quality of Life in the Context of Urban-Rural Interaction – Approaches from the Baltic Sea Region” on quality of life and its 3 elements helps to better understand and analyse the multidimensional concept and take it better into account in regional planning. In a result of multilevel (macro-regional, national and city-regional) cooperation in BSR the project developed “Planning Together for Better Quality of Life – Guide for Integrated Management of Urban Rural Interaction”. The guide presents comprehensively new improved and integrated management model for strengthening urban-rural interaction. Furthermore, it gives policy recommendations for three different governing levels. The guide is complemented with the Online toolkit, which is a series of practical advises on how to apply more integrated approach to planning: how to go through systematically different planning activities together in the city-regional context; how to involve individuals, private sector actors, politicians and other stakeholders into the planning process; how to increase the cooperation between urban and rural municipalities.

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Urban development Regional planning and development Rural and peripheral development

Partners (12)

Lead Partner: Itämeren kaupunkien liiton ympäristösihteeristö/Turun kaupunki

Address: Vanha suurtori 7, 20500 Turku, Finland

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KAUNO RAJONO SAVIVALDYBĖ

Name: KAUNO RAJONO SAVIVALDYBĖ

Address: Savanoriu pr. 371, 49386 Kaunas, Lithuania

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Nordic Centre for spatial development, NORDREGIO

Name: Nordic Centre for spatial development, NORDREGIO

Address: P.O. Box 1658, 111 86 Stockholm, Sweden

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Hiiu Maavalitsus

Name: Hiiu Maavalitsus

Address: Leigri väljak 5, 92401 Kärdla, Estonia

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Zemgales plānošanas reģiona

Name: Zemgales plānošanas reģiona

Address: Pasta iela 37, LV-3001 Jelgava, Latvia

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Aplinkosaugos valdymo ir techonologijų centras

Name: Aplinkosaugos valdymo ir techonologijų centras

Address: Lydos str. 4, 44213 Kaunas, Lithuania

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Turun kaupunki

Name: Turun kaupunki

Address: Puolalankatu 5, 20101 Turku, Finland

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Regional Council of Southwest Finland

Name: Regional Council of Southwest Finland

Address: Ratapihankatu 36, 20100 Turku, Finland

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Örebro kommun

Name: Örebro kommun

Address: P.O Box 30300, 70135 Örebro, Sweden

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Województwo Dolnośląskie

Name: Województwo Dolnośląskie

Address: Wybrzeże Słowackiego 12-14, 50-411 Wrocław, Poland

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Trekantområdet Danmark

Name: Trekantområdet Danmark

Address: Fredericiagade 32, 6000 Kolding, Denmark

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Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg/Bundesland Hamburg

Name: Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg/Bundesland Hamburg

Address: Alter Steinweg 4, 20459 Hamburg, Germany

Legal status: n/a

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Kauno rajono savivaldybe

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Nordic Centre for spatial development, NORDREGIO

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Hiiumaa County Government

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Zemgale Planning region

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Aplinkosaugos valdymo ir techonologijų centras

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Turun kaupunki

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Varsinais-suomen liitto

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Itämeren kaupunkien liiton ympäristösihteeristö/Turun kaupunki

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Örebro kommun

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Lower Silesian Voivodeship

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Trekantområdet Danmark

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Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg/Bundesland Hamburg

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Summary

Project name (EN): Strengthening of Quality of Life through Improved Management of Urban Rural

Project acronym: NEW BRIDGES

Project start date: 2009-01-01

Project end date: 2012-01-24

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 2 813 728.00

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 2 180 094.00

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2007 - 2013 Baltic Sea Region

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2015-03-01

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92 / 92 (100%)

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

1 414 / 1 414 (100%)

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