The ‘Cross-border Metropolitan Regions’ Initiative (IMeG)
in its multi-level dimension
Dr. Gerd Hager
Regionalverband Mittlerer Oberrhein, Germany
Levels of the German Spatial Planning System
Principle of
countervailing influence
(Website commin.org)
The Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and
Spatial Development
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.
The core tasks of the BBSR include
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Generating and securing information basis,
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Drawing up reports,
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Creating expertise and appraisals,
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The management and expert care of various departmental
research and support programmes,
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Transferring results in politics and science.
BBR
Bonn (headquarter)
Deichmanns Aue 31-37
53179 Bonn
Germany
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Programmes of BBSR
www.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
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Experimental Housing and Urban Development (ExWoSt)
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Demonstration Projects of Spatial Planning (MORO)
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Future Building
European Programmes
• European Spatial Planning Observation Network (ESPON)
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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
Growth and innovation
Wachstum und Innovation
BBSR/BMVBS 2006: 40
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?
Criteria
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cross-border functional
interrelations and
commonalities
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existing institutional
agreements for large-scale
cross-border cooperation
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large-scale regionalisation
processes and a
polycentric spatial
structure
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metropolitan locational
factors and potentials for
growth and innovation
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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:
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Mittlerer Oberrhein
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Südlicher Oberrhein
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Hochrhein-Bodensee
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Bodensee-Oberschwaben
MORO project management
Greater Region Lorraine – Luxembourg – Rhineland Palatinate – Wallonia – French- and Germanspeaking community of Belgium
(cartography: agl based on geodata of BBSR and the regions)
agl, Saarbrücken
Euregio Meuse-Rhine
participating states: Germany, Belgium,
Netherlands
population: 3,9 Mio.
area: 10.800 km²
core cities: Aachen, Düren (D); Liège, Hasselt (B);
Maastricht, Heerlen (NL)
(cartography: agl based on geodata of BBSR and the regions;
in: BMVBS 2011: 25; photo: Meuse-Rhine Euregio)
Greater Region Lorraine – Luxembourg – Rhineland Palatinate – Wallonia – French- and German-speaking
community of Belgium
participating states: Germany, France,
Luxembourg, Belgium
population: 11,3 Mio.
Fläche: 65.400 km²
core cities: Mainz, Ludwigshafen, Koblenz, Trier,
Kaiserslautern (D); Saarbrücken (D); Metz, Nancy
(F); Luxemburg-Stadt (L); Charleroi, Lüttich,
Namur, Mons (B)
(cartography: agl based on geodata of BBSR and the regions;
in: BMVBS 2011: 27; photo: Wikimedia Commons/Cayambe/Claude Meisch)
Lake Constance Region
participating states: Germany, Switzerland,
Austria, Liechtenstein
population: 3,6 Mio.
area: 19.850 km²
core cities: Friedrichshafen, Konstanz,
Ravensburg (D); Zürich, St. Gallen, Winterthur
(CH), Bregenz/Dornbirn, Feldkirch (A),
Vaduz (FL)
(cartography: agl based on geodata of BBSR and the regions;
in: BMVBS 2011: 32; photo: mikelieser / photocase.com)
Trinational
Metropolitan
Region Upper
Rhine
Die metropolitanen
Grenzregionen
im IMeG
participating states: Germany, Switzerland,
France
population: 5,9 Mio.
area: 21.500 km²
core cities: Karlsruhe, Freiburg im Breisgau (D);
Strasbourg, Mulhouse (F); Basel (CH)
(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
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!
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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
Growth and innovation
Wachstum und Innovation
BBSR/BMVBS 2006: 40
Strengthening competitiveness
Wettbewerbsfähigkeit stärken
BBSR 2013: model 1 (draft)
DRAFT!
Starting situation and shared aims
Starting points:
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obstacles in cross-border regional
development
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model ‘growth and innovation‘
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Demonstration Project of Spatial Planning
(MORO) ‘Supraregional Partnerships‘
Aims and results:
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strengthening shared self-conceptions and
profiles of border regions
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fields of action in cross-border regional
development
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Europe in miniature: optimising crossborder Governance
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Working together!
Task fields (IMeG 2013 ff.)
• 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
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