The Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning

Research Project: Integrated planning in the German-Polish Interaction Area

Project briefing

  • Status Completed
  • Project duration October 2020 – December 2023
  • Programme MORO

The project developed cross-border structures and integrated planning processes in four pilot projects. These offer solutions for spatial challenges that arise in one or more of the five fields of action of the Common Future Vision 2030 (CFV 2030).

Initial situation

Although the municipalities and regions along the Oder and Lusatian Neisse rivers have been working together with increasing intensity on the integration of the Polish and German Interaction Area since the early 1990s, and a common – albeit informal – basis for the joint development of this area has been in place since 1 December 2016 with the “Common Future Vision for the German-Polish Interaction Area - Horizon 2030” (CFV 2030), the local authorities are facing a number of significant challenges at the beginning of the 2020s that they must tackle. These include demographic change, the consequences of climate change, coping with the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic and – more recently – the complex effects of armed conflicts on the periphery of Europe.

Objectives

Against the background outlined above, the aim of the demonstration project (abbreviation: MORO on “Integrated planning in the German-Polish Interaction Area” was to help ensure that twin cities and other interwoven regional authorities in the Interaction Area continue to develop their role as engines and laboratories of bilateral cooperation and thus have a positive impact on the German-Polish Interaction Area.

At the beginning of 2021, four projects were identified in the German-Polish Interaction Area in which model cross-border structures and processes of integrated planning are being developed that offer solutions for spatially effective challenges that arise in the fields of action of the Common Future Vision 2030. Two of these model projects are located at municipal level, the other two at regional level:

  1. Key elements of cross-border urban development in the European twin city of Frankfurt (Oder) and Słubice.
  2. Two countries. Two towns. One future. On intermunicipal cooperation between the towns of Seelow and Kostrzyn nad Odrą.
  3. Three countries – one future – cooperation in the German-Polish-Czech interaction area.
  4. ITF DE – An attractive cross-border integrated regular-interval rail transport service.

The contractor for the Demonstration Project was INFRASTRUKTUR & UMWELT, Professor Böhm und Partner, Potsdam.

Contact us

  • Dirk Gebhardt
    Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development
    Division RS 3 "European Spatial and Urban Development"
    Phone: +49 228 99401-2227
    Email: dirk.gebhardt@bbr.bund.de

  • Jens Kurnol
    Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development
    Division RS 3 "European Spatial and Urban Development"
    Phone: +49 228 99401-2304
    Email: jens.kurnol@bbr.bund.de

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