The Future of Microregions in Lower Austria

Countries

Employer

Government of Lower Austria

Project partner

Department for Spatial Development, Infrastructure and Environment Planning, UT Vienna, Regional Planning and Regional Development Section

Time frame

2005 - 2005

Project website

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Project description

An increasing amount of tasks are being performed across multiple community borders. That means these tasks can only be effectively managed at the inter-communal level. Therefore the number of microregions has increased significantly in the last few years. Based on the core competencies of these organizational structures, three trends for future development of micoregions in Lower Austrian were identified:

Microregions improve services for the citizens: enhancement of cross-community cooperation in the fields of public and private sector tasks of the municipalities
Microregions provide successful project development: project and investment pools for the implementation of regional projects
Microregions for developing living space: cross-community cooperation in the field of spatial development

Service catalogue

Preparation of an expert scientific analysis
Selection of experts and a pool of practitioners
Organisation of workshops with different participants (mediation)

mecca-Experts

All references with: Hannes Schaffer
All references with: Stefan Sima

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