european integration: past , present and future
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European Integration: Past, Present and Future
Innovative Spatial Planning Instruments and their Contribution to European Integration
A Case Study of a Border Region in Northern Bavaria
Michael SeidelWaterloo, Ontario, May 1, 2010
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• The fall of the iron curtain and the need for rapid change of border regions (1989),
• The Single European Market (1993),
• The opening of the European Union for countries of central and eastern Europe (2004),
• Serious challenges caused by structural change, mainly internationalization and globalization,
• Rising regional disparities,
• Budget constraints called for an effective use of increasingly scarce resources in all member states.
Need for new spatial planning instruments
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New national planning instruments and their interfaces
Product Target group(s) Focus
Regional marketing region (cross section) all stakeholders branding (image, attractiveness)
Business location marketing
economic region investors attracting investment
Regional management region (cross section) regional stakeholders managing projects
Euroregions as cross-border cooperations• Permanent structures intended to promote integration on both sides
of the border
• Supported by European Parliament since more than 30 years
• In the focus of the new objective 3 (former INTERREG community initiative)
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Border regions in the focus of the European Union
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Towards a multi-level architecture of spatial planning
Traditional paradigm
Governmental plans and laws
New paradigm
Regional management and marketing
formal experimental
theoretical practical
bureaucracy management
regulated improvised
reproduction innovation
administrative entrepreneurial
methodical trial and error
top-down bottom-up
• Central planning unable to prevent regional disparities
• Towards a multi-level architecture of spatial planning
• From top-down to bottom-up philosophy
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New instruments included in EU support
Priority axis EU-Contribution
National PublicContribution
Total Public Contribution
Economic Development, Human Resources and Networks
72 222 559 12 745 158 84 967 717
Space and Environment Development 43 287 890 7 639 040 50 926 930Total 115 510 449 20 384 198 135 894 647
Figure 1: Breakdown of finances by priority axis
Operational Czech Republic Cross border programme (INTERREG IV)
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Case study High Franconia: a region in a blind spot
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• Bad image („bavarian Siberia“, „poorhouse of Bavaria“, border region, „no-man‘s –land“), no branding
• „Regional mind-set“: passive and defensive
• Lack of cooperation between firms, counties and towns
• Monostructure: „old fashioned“ industry-portfolio
• Highest unemployment-rate in Bavaria
• Brain drain: loss of young, qualified people
• Demographic situation: loss of population
Status quo after the fall of the iron curtain
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Implications of the division: loss of population
1988
1989
1990
1991
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1994
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1998
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2008
93.0%
98.0%
103.0%
108.0%
113.0%
population of Bavaria, Upper Franconia and High Franconia 1988 = 100 %
Bayern Oberfranken
Oberfranken ohne Hochfranken Hochfranken
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• Defining a regional platform: the city of Hof together with the counties of Hof and Wunsiedel
• Choosing a functional region, not an administrative one
• Re-designing a region: High Franconia instead of „North-East-Upper-Franconia“
• SWOT-analysis
• Branding strategy, financial support by EU-EFRE-funds
Implementing regional marketing and management
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Comparative cost advantages
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Business location marketing – promoting core competencies and clusters
1. Logistics – gateway to middle and eastern Europe
2. IT, call center and back office
3. Automotive industry
4. Fostering regional entrepreneurship
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• From 2007 – 2013 support by INTERREG IV: € 4 million
• Successful projects:
• Education:language courses, pupils exchange programme,
• Thematic events: cross-border garden show,
• Project „Good neighbourhood“: information campaigns, intercultural workshops
• Effects:
• Success in seeking, establishing and stabilizing contacts
• Cultural awareness on both sides of the border
• Committment above average to achieve commonly established goals
EUREGIO EGRENSIS: German-Czech cross-border platform
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• Developing the east-western business competence center
• One-stop-competence for business in Central Europe
• Reinforces the attractiveness of the Bavarian-Czech border zone
• Increased economical cross-border cooperation
East-Western business competence center
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• European and political added value
• Institutional added value
• Socio-economic added value:
• Synergies, e.g. in research and development
• Economies of scale via new markets
• Exchange of best practices and experiences
• Cross-border spin-offs
• Socio-cultural added value
Conclusions I: Added value of innovative instruments for European Integration
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• Bottom-up-based new instruments can help rural regions to keep pace with the metropolitan areas
• The innovative, bottom-up-based approach contributes to making regions more intelligent and flexible
• New instruments recommended for implementation all over the state by Bavarian Government
• Multi-level-architecture gives regions and municipalities more bargainig power vis-à-vis the central state
Conclusions II
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• Using EU- or government grants is only a starting point and not sufficient for success
• Need of professional and consistent strategy and marketing-mix
• Functional regions fit better than administrative ones
• Need of commitment: regional politicians must be or become team-players
• Need of patience: changing regional mind sets may take more time than changing infrastructure and economy
Conclusions III: requirements for successful implementation
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• Regional initiatives under public or private law?
• Inflationary founding of new instruments in a region may cause:
• Overlap
• Double expenditures
• Over-complexity
• Fragmentation
• Problems of integration
• Desire for evaluation: If you can‘t measure it, you can‘t manage it“.
Conclusions IV: unsolved questions
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