Our Activities

The final conference of the CityRegion.Net will be held in Graz from the 6.-8. of April 2011 at the conference rooms at the airport Graz. The main goal will be to built a bridge between the cities and the hinterland.

The 7.April will be held in cooperation with the Province of Styria as a open confernce with participants from the URBACT project, Austrian cities and surroundings municipalities. During this confernce the main focus will be regional urban and rural development projects in the framework of the current programme planning period and new funding opportunities for urban and rual development after 2013 and the Local action plans as implemeted tools for new programme planning period.

Representatives from the URBACT secretariat, DG Regio, DG Agri, Styrian Provincal Goverment, City of Graz and URBACT CityRegion.Net partners, Austrian Association of Cities and towns, Austrian Association of Municipalities and Silesian Union of Municipalities and Districts....will come together for exchanging of experiences, discussing and networking.

On the 8.4. the final CityRegion.Net -Handbook "CityRegions in progress" will be presented and the Local actions plans regading next implementations steps.

For more information please have a look on the agenda for the URBACT conference.

Agenda

Three years of sharing international experience on the subject of city-region co-operations come to an end

Big final conference of the URBACT II thematic network "CityRegion.Net"

Welcome to the City of Zurich:
Zurich participates the international thematic network " CityRegion.Net", that is partly co-financed by the URBACT-II programme of the European Union for cities in the EU, in Switzerland by the Swiss Federation (Bundesamt für Raumplanung ARE).
Together with the partner-cities Graz (Lead-Partner), Arezzo, Châlons-en-Champagne, Czestochowa, Kielce, Munich, Oradea and Trikala we discuss ways to strenghten cooperation between core cities and their hinterland.

Under the titel" From visions towards a more successful regional cooperation" the project took place in the City of Munich.

24 participants took part in the launching conference for the developemnt phase II of the project in the City of Châlons-en-Champagne. 5 Experts from the University of Reims-Champagne-Ardenne, Champagne-Ardenne regional Council and from the spatial agency of Châlons -en-Champagne held presentions on intermunicipals coooperations and structures in France.
We aslo had the great honour to welcome Mr. Jean-Loup Drubigny, head of the Urbact Secretariat.

This was the second workshop in the Lead Partner city Graz and the first steering group meeting which took place.

The Kick -Off Meeting focused on the problems, challenges and objectives of the partners's city / hinterland development and cooperation. We aslo had the great honour to welcome Mr. Raffaele Barbato from the Urbact Secretariat in our Meeting in Kielce.

The meeting took place in the Lead Partner city in Graz. It was the first get together of all CityRegion.Net partners.