INTERREG III B CADSES PROJECT BOOK - Infocooperare

RIMEDRegional Integration and Metropolitan Developmentof South Eastern Europewww.seed-center.org/rimedProject DescriptionThe RIMED project deals with three serious and interactingproblems of South-Eastern Europe: increasingspatial inequality, serious geographical andeconomic fragmentation and unbalanced or evenanarchic growth of metropolitan areas leading to afurther concentration of activities. The latter maylead to traffic congestion, pollution, environmentaldegradation and social segregation, which threatento undermine the prospects of large cities forsustainable development.Results and EffectsThis project managed to improve co-operationand to establish networks of interaction amongmajor cities in South-Eastern Europe. In that senseit contributed to the general goals of the EU andinternational community in promoting stability, integrationand co-operation in the region. In addition,the project contributed to a balanced and polycentricspatial development in the wider contextof South-Eastern European space by supportingselected cities with a joint strategy of metropolitandevelopment, which has a strong preference forregional cohesion and spread effects to metropolitanhinterlands. Other important effects includethe improvement of local governance through anetwork-based transfer of know-how and experience.SPATIAL DEVELOPMENTMEASURE 1.2DurationEU Regions/Member StatesNon EU Member StatesLead PartnerProject Partner0 200 kmRIMED workshop in TiranaRIMED proposes a development strategy forSouth-Eastern Europe which is based on transnationalnetworks of co-operation and whichpromotes polycentric urban development withwidespread effects to the hinterlands of the largecities. The project is based on a network of cooperationamong four important cities in the region,Sofia, Skopje, Tirana and Thessaloniki, andinvolves the administrative as well as scientific institutionsfrom these cities.Start ....................................................... 01/2003End ......................................................... 10/2005Budget (EUR)Total Budget ....................................1,162,000.00thereof ERDF ......................................549,000.00Project workshop in SkopjeLead PartnerUniversity of Thessaly (SEED Center)Department of Planning and Regional DevelopmentPedion Areos38334 VolosGREECEContact PersonDr. Ageliki AnagnostouTel +30 24210 74485Fax +30 24210 74385E-Mail aganag@prd.uth.grProject PartnersAlbaniaUniversity of Tirana, TiranaPrefecture of Tirana, TiranaInstitute of Labour, TiranaBulgariaUniversity of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy,SofiaCity of Sofia, SofiaBulgarian Academy of Science, SofiaFormer Yugoslav Rep. of MacedoniaCyril and Methodius University, SkopjeCity of Skopje, SkopjeInstitute of Economics, SkopjeGreeceDemocritus University of Thrace, KomotiniThessaloniki Organisation, ThessalonikiINTERREG III B CADSES / PROJECT BOOK49