Research Project: Implementing the Common Future Vision for the German-Polish Interaction Area

Project briefing

• Status Completed
• Project duration December 2016 – December 2019
• Programme MORO

In December 2016, the Spatial Development Committee of the German-Polish Governmental Commission for Regional and Cross-Border Cooperation adopted the "Common Future Vision for the Polish-German Interaction Area – Horizon 2030". How can the "Common Future Vision 2030" now reach regional and local stakeholders? How can its goals be verified and advanced? Which good model projects are put into practice based on the Vision? These issues were examined by the MORO initiative.

Project duration: December 2017 – December 2019

Background

In December 2016, the Spatial Development Committee of the German-Polish Governmental Commission for Regional and Cross-Border Cooperation adopted the "Common Future Vision for the Polish-German Interaction Area - Horizon 2030" (in short: CFV 2030). The Vision is based on the spatial development concepts and strategies for Germany and Poland and interprets them from a regional and cross-border view.

With the Vision, spatial development institutes in the German federal states, Polish voivodeships and at national level have for the first time since 1995 (adoption of the spatial planning guidelines for the German-Polish border region) jointly described the particular challenges in this area and agreed upon overall concepts.

Objectives

The Common Future Vision 2030 provides the framework for the German-Polish Spatial Development Committee's activities of the present and the near future. The institutions involved have agreed upon a gradual way of proceeding based on priorities. Between 2017 and 2019, the following activities were< in the foreground:

• exchanging with players of the European cross-border programmes (Interreg A),
• identifying flagship projects of the Common Future Vision 2030 in the context of a German-Polish competition,
• increased involvement of local stakeholders.

The contractor of the demonstration project was INFRASTRUKTUR & UMWELT, Professor Böhm und Partner, Potsdam, Germany.