Co-operative urban and regional development
"How can we organise co-operation and participation for
tomorrow’s cities and regions today?"
Open space conference on June 2nd and 3rd in Berlin
Many European cities and regions are experiencing great changes at
present. The challenges of the future will not lessen, but rather increase.
The demographic change leads to a population which is getting older on average
and many places will as well have to deal with a strong decrease in population
in the future. Migration within Europe will increase. The effects of the
climate change demand for new, environmentally acceptable solutions for
old tasks.
What consequences will follow with regard to mobility and traffic, housing
and workplaces, for the infrastructure and public finances? What possibilities
for action do the players on municipal and regional level have? And what
can instruments of co-operation and participation offer in order to stay
able to act? What experiences have been made e. g. with forms of inter-municipal
co-operation, co-operative project development, public-private-partnerships
or with participatory budgets? What forms of organisation and what possibilities
of financing are on offer for the management of co-operation processes?
At numerous places rich experiences with the handling of these questions
have been made and in many places exemplary solutions have been found. A
transparent and trustful co-operation between the partners is always essential
here. Win-win-options are being developed and filled with life. Socially
integrative city or town reconstruction, LEADER+-regions or cluster strategies,
conventions or guidelines of the European Union are only a few examples, which
stand for an increasing importance of co-operative solution finding strategies.
But unimagined obstacles can emerge, which hamper a constructive co-operation.
Due to this reason it is highly necessary to have a concrete exchange about
the preparation, organisation, co-ordination and moderation of co-operative
development processes, to broaden and deepen knowledge.
The open space conference “How can we organise co-operation and participation
for tomorrow’s cities and regions today?” offers an information pool and
a platform for the exchange of knowledge, in order to profit mutually from
the good experiences, to learn from mistakes and to win new impulses for
your own work. It gathers experts from various disciplines, which offer answers
to burning questions, are prepared to enter a dialogue between colleagues
and enrich personal networks. The open space method provides room for a
creative working atmosphere, in which new co-operation and new ideas for
projects can develop. We use this method in order to promote the exchange
of experiences beyond the boundaries and limits of countries, professions
and hierarchies.
On the basis of requests, ideas and concerns which are important to
the participants the joint agenda develops at the beginning of the conference.
In the second part of the conference the offer of forming an action plan
supports the continuation and realisation of already existing or newly developed
project ideas and co-operations. Here you can find further information
on the method of open space.
Who are you?
A local player in a city or a region? Decision-maker from economy,
politics, administration or non-governmental organisations? Scientist, consultant
or planner, an expert within the field of urban and regional development
from Germany or another European country? – Then you are right at the open
space conference “How can we organise co-operation and participation for
tomorrow’s cities and regions today?”!
Time and place of the event
The conference takes place on Thursday, June 2nd, 9.30
a.m. – 6.30 p.m. and Friday, June 3rd , 9.30 a.m. – 1.30 p.m.
The venue is the Elias parish hall in Berlin-Prenzlauer
Berg, Göhrener Straße 11, D-10437 Berlin. A round meeting
area and a green inner court offer good conditions for a special conference
atmosphere.
You reach the place of event by the S-Bahn lines
41, 42, 8 or 85, station Prenzlauer Allee (10 min.
walk), by the U-Bahn line 2, station Eberswalder Straße (10 min. walk) or by the tram
lines M10 and M2, stop Prenzlauer Allee / Danziger
Straße (5 min. walk).
By car you drive over the Danziger Straße (B 96a)
and turn to the Senefelder Straße. Or you come
from the Prenzlauer Allee (B 109) and turn to the
Raumerstraße. Please note that the parking
possibilities are limited in this area.
Conference language
During the conference both English and German will be spoken.
Fees
Fees: For registration and payment until March 31st 2005
early booking price of 100,– Euro (incl. 16 % VAT). From April
1st 2005 120,– Euro (incl. 16 % VAT). The conference
fee includes food and beverages consumed during the conference.
Presumably, for a total of 18 participants from the new EU Member States
(or the Candidate countries) the European Academy for Urban Environment
(EAUE) can make a contribution of up to 300,– Euro maximum towards the
expenses for participation and travelling. If you would like to take chance
of this possibility, please contact the Academy directly, phone: +49-30-89 59 99-0,
fax: +49-30-89 59 99-19, jj [at] eaue.de
and note this on your registration form.
Registration
Please use the prepared form on this website for your registration
(see hyperlink below) and transfer the participation fee after receiving
the invoice, which you will get by e-mail. Only after receiving the payment
a binding registration is ensured.
Accommodation
Please contact the hotels directly to make your own reservation.
Until April 30th 2005 we have provisionally booked a certain
number of rooms for conference participants at the following hotels.
- Hotel
Greifswald, Greifswalder Straße 211, D-10405 Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg, Tel. +49-(0)30-44 27 888,
single 65,00 € / double 78,00 €
- Holiday Inn Berlin City Center East, Prenzlauer Allee 169, D-10409 Berlin-Prenzlauer
Berg, Tel. +49-(0)30-44 66 10, single 89,00 € / double
99,00 €
- Myer's Hotel Berlin, Metzer Straße
26, D-10405 Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg, Tel.
+49-(0)30-44 014-0, single 95,00 € / double 125,00 €.
When you make your reservation, please indicate the conference (“city
and region”) that you will attend. Further accommodations you can find at
Berlin Tourist Information. Or call
+49-(0)30-25 00 25.
If you have any questions you can contact us by phone: +49-(0)30-30 10 54 64,
fax: +49-(0)30-30 10 54 65 or e-mail: baumann [at] bueroblau.de or detlefsen [at] bueroblau.de.
We are looking forward to you!
Frank Baumann and Malte Detlefsen
(Initiators and organisers)
Co-organisers and co-operation partners
- Dr. Hanns-Uve Schwedler, managing director of the European
Academy for Urban Environment, Berlin
- Eckhard Bergmann, Federal Office for Building and Regional
Planning, Bonn
- Ivana Bursikova, Agora Central Europe civic association,
Prague
- Ralf Drescher, mayor of the municipality Süderholz / chairman of LEADER+-LAG "Vorpommersches
Küstenhinterland"
- Michael Kraack, emcra - Kraack & Associates, Berlin,
economic advisor specialised on EU funding opportunities
- Dr. Petra Potz, Prof. Dr. Heidi Sinning and Fabian Torns,
Informationskreis für Raumplanung,
Dortmund
- Wolf Schulz, Berlin, evangelical parish Prenzlauer Berg
North
- Dr. Jan Swoboda, German Networking Agency LEADER+, Frankfurt
a. M.
- Lars Vogelsang, Agenda Agency Berlin, public affairs and
consulting for sustainable development
- Axel Zietz, KCW (Competence Center Competition), Hamburg,
traffic planner in the field of public transport
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