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Petra Potz, Lead Expert: Co-Production of Local Action Plans. A Central Element of Regional Governance in Deprived Neighbourhoods. In: The URBACT Tribune, Paris, pp. 30-34. The online publication is available here for download.

The URBACT network RegGov – Regional Governance of Sustainable Integrated Development of Deprived Urban Areas held its Final Conference in the German Lead Partner city of Duisburg on 12 May 2011.

More than 150 participants attended the Final Conference of the RegGov network in the Lead Partner city of Duisburg (DE) on 12 May 2011. Organised in the spectacular venue of the Landscape Park Duisburg-North, an important conversion project of former steelworks into a landscape park, the achieved successes, results and outcomes of the work have been presented and discussed.

The conference documenation and programme is here available for download:

>>   photo documentation (pdf)

>>   conference documentation (pdf)

>>   conference folder (pdf)

>>   programme poster (pdf)

The Fact Sheet of the RegGov project completed by the Lead Expert is available for donwload here. This Fact Sheet will be used at programme level to produce an article on each of the project results.

The RegGov network has drawn common conclusions. Ten Recommendations related to "Challenges and Conditions for Good Multi-Level Governance" are published together with practical case studies from the Partner Cities. The Final Report of the RegGov network is available for download here:

RegGov Final Report

In the following, the abstract of the Final Report is available for download in the different partner languages:

FR abstract_EN

FR abstract_DE

FR abstract_GR

FR abstract_HU

FR abstract_IT

FR abstract_PL

FR abstract_RO

FR abstract_SE

A good practice handbook on "Sustainment of integrative neighbourhood development in disadvantaged urban areas in North Rhine-Westphalia" was elaborated and is here available for download.

Petra Potz, Lead Expert: Private Actors in Neighbourhood Management. A resource for integrated urban development. URBACT Secretariat, Paris.

The online publication is here available for download.

The Local Action Plans elaborated by the RegGov Partner Cities are here available for download in the accordant national languages. In addition, each Partner City elaborated an English abstract of its Local Action Plan on the basis of a common structure.

Duisburg, Hochemmerich (DE)

• full Local Action Plan in German

• English abstract of the LAP

Duisburg, Laar (DE)

• full Local Action Plan in German

• English abstract of the LAP

Halandri (GR)

• full Local Action Plan in Greek

• English abstract of the LAP

Köbanya (HU)

• full Local Action Plan in Hungarian

• English abstract of the LAP

Nijmegen (NL)

• full Local Action Plan in Dutch

• English abstract of the LAP

Nyiregyhaza (HU)

• full Local Action Plan in Hungarian

• English abstract of the LAP

Ruda Slaska (PL)

• full Local Action Plan in Polish

• English abstract of the LAP

Satu Mare (RO)

• full Local Action Plan in Romanian

• English abstract of the LAP

Siracusa (IT)

• full Local Action Plan in Italian

• English abstract of the LAP

Södertälje (SE)

• full Local Action Plan in Swedish

• English abstract of the LAP

A synthesis of the 3 Thematic Seminars and the Joint Seminar for MAs & EC is here available in one Thematic Manual with four abstracts for download.

The Manual for Practical Use in Cities and Regions: Thematic Clusters summarising the four topics Regional Cooperation, Private Involvement, Roma Integration and Monitoring Systems and Evaluation is available here for download.

Reports of Thematic Seminars:

• 1st Thematic Seminar in Halandri, GR (January 2009)

• Joint Seminar for MAs & EC in Budapest, HU (October 2009) 

• 2nd Thematic Seminar in Nijmegen, NL (November 2009)

• Extraordinary Partner Meeting in Duisburg, DE (February 2010 | Documentation)

• 3rd Thematic Seminar in Satu Mare, RO and Nyiregyhaza, HU (October 2010)

Reports of the third Cluster Round [third meetings]:

• Cluster 1 "Regional Co-operation" (January 2011 | Halandri, GR)

• Cluster 2 "Private Involvement" (December 2010 | Södertälje, SE)

• Cluster 3 "Roma Integration" (November 2010 | Dortmund, DE)

• Cluster 4 "Monitoring and Evaluation" (January 2011 | Nijmegen, NL)

Reports of the second Cluster Round [second meetings]:

• Cluster 1 "Regional Co-operation" (May 2010 | Ruda Slaska, PL)

• Cluster 2 "Private Involvement" (April 2010 | Satu Mare, RO)

• Cluster 3 "Roma Integration" (May 2010 | Köbanya, HU)

• Cluster 4 "Monitoring Systems" (June 2010 | Siracusa, IT)

Reports of the first Cluster Round [kick-off meetings]:

• Cluster 1 "Regional Co-operation" (June 2009 | Halandri, GR)

• Cluster 2 "Private Involvement" (June 2009 | Köbanya, HU)

• Cluster 3 "Roma Integration" (June 2009 | Nyiregyhaza, HU)

• Cluster 4 "Monitoring Systems" (May 2009 | Duisburg, DE)

Additional documents:

• Report on the "Official Opening of the Huszarvar Socio-Cultural Centre" (December 2009)

• Good Practice Reader on "Public-Private Partnership in Integrated Urban Policy" (December 2009)

Seven of overall eight issues of the RegGov Newsletter are released until now. The newsletter of the RegGov Network informs on the project's current state of play - the latest news, results and next steps of the project. The newsletters are here available for download:

8th RegGov Newsletter (special issue), September 2011

7th RegGov Newsletter, April 2011

6th RegGov Newsletter, December 2010

5th RegGov Newsletter, September 2010

4th RegGov Newsletter, June 2010

3rd RegGov Newsletter, April 2010

2nd RegGov Newsletter, December 2009

1st RegGov Newsletter, November 2009

The handbook “Socially Integrative City in North Rhine-Westphalia – getting deprived urban areas back on track” has been released by the Ministry for Economic Affairs, Energy, Building, Housing and Transport of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) in September 2010 and was elaborated in close co-operation with the RegGov Lead Partner.

In addition, a graphic was elaborated by the RegGov Lead Partner in order to clarify and visualize the working structure of the city network 'Socially Integrative City' in North Rhine-Westphalia.

An article on the RegGov project has been published in the Parliament Magazine in the end of February 2010 and is here available for download.

An expert article relating to the RegGov project's hot topics has been published in Germany in July 2009 and is now translated. The translation of this article is here available for download.

On the occasion of the URBACT Annual Conference 2008 in Montpellier (FR), the RegGov Lead Partner developed in co-operation with the URBACT Secretariat a leaflet and a poster presenting the RegGov Network and its objectives. A second poster was developed for the URBACT Annual Conference 2009 in Stockholm (SE). These documents are here available for download.

The Final Application of the RegGov Fast Track Network has been elaborated in co-operation between the Lead Partner and the Lead Expert and provides essential information on the project.

A central part of the Final Application is the Work Programme the network set up for the Implementation Phase. It details all activities the network plans to realise between November 2008 and May 2011.

Preparation. Based on a template provided by the Lead Expert in May 2008, all Partner Cities prepared a City Dossier with detailed information on their City, the neighbourhood on which they want to focus in developing their Local Action Plan, the relationship to their Managing Authority and other project relevant local issues. During the following months, the Lead Expert visited all Partner Cities in order to get to know on site the situation of the City, the target area, and the stakeholders to be involved in the Local Support Group.

Contents. From the City Dossiers and the results of the Intake Visits the Baseline Study has been prepared and published in October 2008. It consists of three parts:

1.      Initial part on the state-of-the-art in the field of good governance in integrated neighbourhood development;

2.      Detailed presentation of the situation in each of the Partner Cities and Regions (see the ‘Our Partners’ section to download the City Profiles);

3.      Conclusions for the Work Programme of the Implementation Phase.

Click here to read the Baseline Study in English.

Click here to read the Baseline Study in Hungarian.

When they first met in Södertälje in June 2008, all 9 RegGov Partner Cities presented their respective cities and target areas in a Power Point. This was the starting point for a detailed discussion and exchange of experience between the Partner Cities and with the Lead Expert on the topic of governance in integrated neighbourhood development.

PPP Duisburg ; PPP Halandri ; PPP Köbánya ; PPP Nijmegen ; PPP Nyíregyháza ; PPP Ruda Śląska ; PPP Satu Mare ; PPP Siracusa ; PPP Södertälje.