The ‘Cross-border Metropolitan Regions’ Initiative (IMeG) in its multi-level dimension

Dr. Gerd HagerRegionalverband Mittlerer Oberrhein, Germany

Levels of the German Spatial Planning System

(Website commin.org)

Principle of countervailing influence

The Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development

The core tasks of the BBSR include

•Generating and securing information basis,

•Drawing up reports,

•Creating expertise and appraisals,

•The management and expert care of various departmental research and support programmes,

•Transferring results in politics and science.

BBR Bonn (headquarter)Deichmanns Aue 31-3753179 BonnGermanyzentrale@bbr.bund.de

The Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development (BBSR) within the Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning (BBR) is a departmental research institution under the portfolio of the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development (BMVBS).

It advices the Federal Government with sectoral scientific consultation in the political fields of spatial planning, urban development, housing and building.

Programmes of BBSRwww.bbsr.bund.de

The Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development (BBSR) within the Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning (BBR) supervises the departmental research of the Federal Ministry.

Departmental Reseach•General Departmental Research

•Experimental Housing and Urban Development (ExWoSt)

•Demonstration Projects of Spatial Planning (MORO)

•Future Building

European Programmes•European Spatial Planning Observation Network (ESPON)

•INTERREG

Demonstration Project of Spatial Planning (MORO)www.bbsr.bund.de

Demonstration Project of Spatial Planning (MORO) ‘Supraregional partnerships in cross-border functional regions’

‘MORO is a research programme of the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development (BMVBS), supervised by the Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development (BBSR) in the Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning (BBR). The initial phase of the IMeG will continue to be supported by MORO.’

Demonstration Project of Spatial Planning (MORO) www.bbsr.bund.de

Starting point 2005

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Growth and innovationWachstum und Innovation

Analysis and Strategy

• Cross-border dimension is missing• Only eleven metropolitan regions within the national

territory

• Questions:

- Is there a further category?

- What are the criteria for this category?

- Which German regions might be qualified?

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Criteria

• cross-border functional interrelations and commonalities

• existing institutional agreements for large-scale cross-border cooperation

• large-scale regionalisation processes and a polycentric spatial structure

• metropolitan locational factors and potentials for growth and innovation

MORO ‘Initiative Group of German Regions in Cross-Border Functional Regions’

MORO-partnership

spokesman region

Ministerium für Inneres und Sport des Saarlandes

Further members of IMeG

Regio Aachen e.V.

Regionalverbände:

•Mittlerer Oberrhein

•Südlicher Oberrhein

•Hochrhein-Bodensee

•Bodensee-Oberschwaben

MORO project management

agl, SaarbrückenGreater Region Lorraine – Luxembourg – Rhineland Palatinate – Wallonia – French- and German-speaking community of Belgium

(cartography: agl based on geodata of BBSR and the regions)

Euregio Meuse-Rhine

(cartography: agl based on geodata of BBSR and the regions; in: BMVBS 2011: 25; photo: Meuse-Rhine Euregio)

participating states: Germany, Belgium, Netherlands population: 3,9 Mio. area: 10.800 km² core cities: Aachen, Düren (D); Liège, Hasselt (B); Maastricht, Heerlen (NL)

participating states: Germany, France, Luxembourg, Belgiumpopulation: 11,3 Mio.Fläche: 65.400 km²core cities: Mainz, Ludwigshafen, Koblenz, Trier, Kaiserslautern (D); Saarbrücken (D); Metz, Nancy (F); Luxemburg-Stadt (L); Charleroi, Lüttich, Namur, Mons (B)

Greater Region Lorraine – Luxembourg – Rhineland Palatinate – Wallonia – French- and German-speaking

community of Belgium

(cartography: agl based on geodata of BBSR and the regions; in: BMVBS 2011: 27; photo: Wikimedia Commons/Cayambe/Claude Meisch)

(cartography: agl based on geodata of BBSR and the regions; in: BMVBS 2011: 32; photo: mikelieser / photocase.com)

participating states: Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Liechtensteinpopulation: 3,6 Mio.area: 19.850 km²core cities: Friedrichshafen, Konstanz, Ravensburg (D); Zürich, St. Gallen, Winterthur (CH), Bregenz/Dornbirn, Feldkirch (A), Vaduz (FL)

Lake Constance Region

Die metropolitanen Grenzregionen im IMeG

participating states: Germany, Switzerland, Francepopulation: 5,9 Mio. area: 21.500 km²core cities: Karlsruhe, Freiburg im Breisgau (D); Strasbourg, Mulhouse (F); Basel (CH)

Trinational Metropolitan Region Upper Rhine

(cartography: agl based on geodata of BBSR and the regions; in: BMVBS 2011: 30; photo: Stadt Kehl/Peter Heck)

Multi-level governance ?

Multi-level governance !

Conference of the IMeG in Luxembourg, 19./20.11.2012

(photos: Dirk Michler)

Luxembourg Theses

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1. Metropolitan border regions are motors for development in Europe

2. Using chances of metropolitan border regions: “Strengthening strengths – removing obstacles”

3. Metropolitan border regions – “Europe in miniature” – Europe close to its people

4. Strong organisational structures for a strong metropolitan border region

5. The basis for successful development: territorial strategic approach

6. Target-oriented funding instruments for metropolitan border region

7. Working together!

Developing shared self-conceptions: What characterises metropolitan border regions?

cross-border functional interrelations and commonalities

existing institutional agreements for large-scale cross-border cooperation

large-scale regionalisation processes and a polycentric spatial structure

metropolitan locational factors and potentials for growth and innovation

Spatial distribution of metropolitan functions within the IMeG-regions(cartography: agl based on geodata of BBSR; in: BMVBS 2011: 52)

Updating the German spatial planning models

BBSR 2013: model 1 (draft)BBSR/BMVBS 2006: 40

DRAFT! Growth and innovationWachstum und Innovation

Strengthening competitivenessWettbewerbsfähigkeit stärken

Starting points:

•obstacles in cross-border regional development

•model ‘growth and innovation‘

•Demonstration Project of Spatial Planning (MORO) ‘Supraregional Partnerships‘

Aims and results:

•strengthening shared self-conceptions and profiles of border regions

•fields of action in cross-border regional development

•Europe in miniature: optimising cross-border Governance

•Working together!

Starting situation and shared aims

Task fields (IMeG 2013 ff.)

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• Continuation of the ‘Cross-border Metropolitan Regions’ Initiative

• Concretisation of common task fields within the national and European context

• Positioning cross-border metropolitan regions within the European spatial development discourse

• Contribution of cross-border metropolitan regions to territorial cohesion in Europe

• Initiation of flagship projects