Transcript NIV-093 Interreg III A projekts “Jauna telpiskās

Development Visions in the Regions:
Stakeholders' Opinion.
Spatial Development Strategy (SDS) –
Framework for Activities.
Neils Balgalis,
Grupa93
Seminar agenda
15:00 – 15:10 Introduction and aims for the day
15:10 – 15:30 Stakeholders opinion – future visions for cooperation
15:30 - 16:30 SDS as a framework for common activities – structure,
activities and limitations
16:30 – 16:50 Coffee break
16:50 – 17:40 Work groups
17:40 – 18:30 Presentation of work group results, common discussion
18:40 – 19:00 Major conclusions of the seminar
Semināra dienas kārtība
• Vispārējs pārskats par projekta teritoriju
• Latvijas intereses un iespējas pārrobežu sadarbībā
• Stratēģija un aktivitātes – realitāte un ierobežojumi
Expected results of the seminar
• Work plan for next 2.5 months
• Common vision agreed
• Strategy structure discussed and adjusted
Pending questions:
• Stakeholder involvement process
• The name of the SD zone (process)
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Stakeholders opinion – future visions for
cooperation
Business people – existing contacts and activities; simplified
border crossing
Local municipalities – attitude change; limited knowledge; first
steps; co-financing capacities
NGO’s – working for/with projects; additional chance
Driving force - Neigborhood Initiative
NO COMMON VISION FOR THE AREA
SDS as a framework for common activities –
structure, activities and limitations
Draft Spatial Development Strategy for the project
area– vision, common objectives and set of
activities; potential impact and existing limitations
Common Spatial Development Strategy
(SDS)
Long-term (15-20 years) development framework
Integration of the physical and geographic dimensions of
the partners existing strategies + commonly agreed
innovative development solutions.
5 main components:
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development of transport infrastructure, services and accessibility
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polycentric development of cities and towns
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environment and nature protection
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development of information society
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political co-operation
Vision
• In year 2027 the project area will be the
model area for EU _ Russia cooperation, with
deeply integrated infrastructure (roads,
communications, cities and towns)
• 2nd - seperated by borders; no connections
• 3rd - some cooperation projects ongoing
Political co-operation
Objectives:
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The cooperation zone is named and marketed for multicultural,
multinational cooperation
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All neighbourhood towns and cities (municipalities) have signed
cooperation contracts in Latgale, Vidzeme and Pskov, and Leningrad
regions, thus providing network for regular contacts, information
exchange and common development projects.
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Border crossing regime is more flexible for pre border regions
inhabitants.
Tasks:
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Decrease „wall effect”,
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Create cooperation network between local municipalities;
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Effective political cooperation to promote business, social and culture
environment in preborder reģion
IMPORTANT - there are few measures set in regional and local strategic
documents for cross border ciooperation.
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Culture
Municipal reform
Scale
Distance
Border
Language
Psychology
Planning and planning
Different politic frameworks (EU_Russia)
Measures agreed in the Project. Next Project ideas
• Stakeholders involvement. Measures for various target groups.
Consultations within the project on appropriate cooperation forms.
For, example, travelling exhibition about historic maps and border
lines.
• International discussion, focus groups: historians-historians,
students-students, artists-artists and so on.
• Defining cooperation zone (area). Research, campaign.
• Latvian-Russian competence centres, based on knowledge of local
industries to balance migration of workforce.
• Bright business ideas and good business cases transfer (agriculture,
wood processing etc.)
• Twinning programmes for cities, towns.
IMPORTANT Recommended to involve Riga as partner of
St.Petersburg.
Polycentric development
Specialisation
• Functional specialisation is a key concept when
analysing and developing small and medium sized
towns.
• Whereas many larger urban areas are able to sustain a
large number of functions with wider territorial
significance, small and medium sized settlements are
often much more focused.
Rural development poles
• Small and medium-sized towns in rural territories can play a crucial
role by acting as a development pole for their surrounding area.
• Access to broadband technology is very important.
• Overall, understanding the reasons for differential economic
performance and relative competitiveness in rural areas is a key
element in devising practical strategies and programmes for
empowering and regenerating rural areas. While tangible factors
such as natural and human resources, investment, infrastructure
and towns with additional functions to agglomerations have often
been considered as decisive factors for a vibrant rural economy,
current research highlights the significance of ‘less tangible’ or
‘soft’ factors.
The territorial capital of a rural region
Five factors are particularly important:
• market performance (how markets work in practice);
• institutions (how local people perceive and use the
institutions intended to serve them);
• networks (the personal networks which link public and
private sector organisations);
• community (the sense of community as a basis for cooperation);
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• quality of life.
• Polycentricity - the concept
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of networking as a
synonym, aimed at joint development
activities between towns and localities
Polycentric means connecting a number of
places so that they form a network.
• By operating together they achieve a new critical
mass that can sustain and grow businesses, services
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important conditions
place specific development assets and
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the partners must see themselves as equals, in spite of
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identification of common interests are crucial
the fact that some towns could be much bigger and more „central“ than the other localities
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something happening in one place should have influence on other places in network
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“soft” infrastructures (links between firms, development agencies, local and
regional authorities, universities etc – social capital) are even more important in
first stages than material infrastructures (roads, telecommunications, etc.)
measures (examples):
• transfer of knowledge (skills, know-how) between companies,
universities, municipalities, NGOs etc in different towns and places;
• public investments for development of
entrepreneurship, if several towns and places within the region are
participating
• joint projects for territorial marketing and seeking for
investors, if the region is promoted as an single unit;
• improvement of physical communication (roads, traffic)
between towns and places, if this is part of wider development project;
• joint tourism complexes and routes between different towns
and places;
key to polycentric development
from the network of people to the
sustainanble network of towns
and cities
collaborating to compete!
Polycentric development 2
• Objective
To create liveable network of towns and cities which could
form a critical mass for sustainable development
• Major tasks
• Creation of networks
Towns, industries (including tourism), functions, etc.
• Urban re-development
Brownfields, waterfronts, public space, public transport,
spatial and land use planning, renovation, managment
(e-governance, etc.)
Development of information society
• In 2006 just 26% of households in Latgale had a PC and 24% (that
is half of state average indicator) had access to Internet that is the
lowest rate in whole Latvia and is twice lower then average level.
The situation was much better in enterprises: almost half of them
(48%; state average - 59%) had a PC and 32% (state average 46%) had Internet access while their own web page had just 6.4%
(state average - 15%) of enterprises.
Development of information society
Goals:
• Internet connection information technologies
(IT) to increase accessibility of pre border
regions.
Tasks:
• Using the adjustable technologies in pre
border region to improve communication,
economic cooperation and life quality.
• Improve administrative capacity of public
sector
• Measures, defined in the strategies:
• Development of IT strategies for cities.
• Creation of integrated telecommunication and information
infrastructure. New communication facilities and reconstruction of
old ones (telephone connection).
• Establish public information and communication points.
• Modern library and its role in development processes.
• E-governance.
• Training. New education programmes. IT training in the all economic
and social branches, for businessmen, different society groups. .
• Digitization of communication infrastructure in rural areas.
• improving mobile phone zone overlay.
• Gain the attention of government to set the priority of implementing
IT society with appropriate communication and IT infrastructure and
services.
Measures agreed in the Project. Next Project ideas
• Complex programme for border regions “E-area” for businessmen,
society and municipalities („thE-AREA”)
• Transferring e-governance experience (ready e-governance
applications)
• Research on situation in IT sector on both sides, to get to the
balanced ITC infrastructure, to provide information flow between
border regions.
• Support local enterprises to implement IT solutions to improve virtual
accessibility of the enterprises.
• Innovative solutions, how to use IT in remote areas (funded from 7th
framework programme). Multi-sectoral IT solutions, wifi – vireless
and mobile phones.
Environment and nature protection
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Protection nature and environment quality in the region;
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Introduction new environmentally friendly solutions for industries
and public utilities;
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Environmental education;
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Diminished environment pollution.
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River and lake management for ensuring waterbodies’ quality and
recreational resources;
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Effective administrative instruments for nature resources use and
protection, as well for control of industrial pollution;
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Reconstruction of public utilities old infrastructure (drinking water,
sewage, heating).
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Measures, defined in the strategies:
Development and implementation of environment protection and nature management
program.
Management of specially protected nature, improving the mechanisms of
management of nature habitats areas.
Arrange the nature and cultural objects.
Monitoring of quality of habitats.
Environmental education, create public awareness on nature protection and
environmental issues (booklets, infostands etc.), education on environmentally
friendly and energy saving technologies, materials.
Development and realization of programs at municipal level on environment
protection and rural tourism development.
Protection of culture landscape as potential for tourism development (landscape
management plans).
Creation of ecological network (as well determination of animal crossings on roads)
Management of cities’ green areas.
Elaboration of the water bodies management plans.;
Creation of public swimming places, arrangement of lakeshores and river banks for
recreation.
Implementation of complex of social environmental protection measures for provision
of large farmlands in a framework of regional Program of environmental protection.
Encourage farmers to reorient to ecological agriculture methods, support organic
agriculture.
Control optimal use of mineral fertilizers and plant protection means. Set regulations
for creating closed stable manure stores.
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Reconstruction of water supply and sewage systems in urban places and villages. Popularize new
technologies. .
New connections to centralized water supply systems (new housing areas).
Measures for energy effectiveness..
implementing modern waste management systems. Control of illegal disposal of waste.
develop effective and environmentally friendly heating systems. .
Elaborate a concept of dead animal burial places.
Investigation and rehabilitation of polluted places
Underground water protection (detecting drill holes, plugging unused ones, setting protection
zones and control use)
Sustainable use of forests and forests lands. Reforestation control.
Promote development of sustainable hunting, link hunting collectives to the certain shooting
districts.
Prevent illegal hunting and fishing.
Elaboration of rules of bogs management.
Transition to ecologically safe public transport (the main travel facility in large cities).
Elaborate environmentally friendly transport system, ensure preventive safe measures for highrisk cargos.
Introduction of resource-saving and non-waste technologies in all spheres of economical
activities. Development of recycled resources system, including waste processing.
Tax benefits for the enterprises introducing ecologically friendly systems. Introducing subsidies for
environmentally friendly management.
Increase fines for the enterprises and organizations polluting the environment. Ensuring the
principle “polluter pays”.
Increase environment pollution control. Create environment inspection system and coordinate with
range of other controlling public bodies. Promote municipal collaboration with nongovernmental
organizations.
Promote mineral deposit extracting in large pits and concentrate as possible in one place. Ensure
recovering of extracted pits and prevent illegal extracting.
Measures agreed in the Project.
Next Project ideas
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House building, old housing restoration programme, applying energy saving
solutions. Complex measure (project) how to use energy saving materials
and local resources (wood) in building, in collaboration with local
enterprises, municipalities, within the municipal housing programmes.
Available housing Project.
Involving Russian municipalities in river basin management plan
implementation (River Velikaja) under EU Water directive.
Common training and experience exchange programmes for forest sector.
Popularization the new energy saving technologies within the EU
programme SAFE (feat pump, Sun batteries etc.).
Training programmes for tourism providers, which offer hunting, fishing.
Equipment of transit corridors (unified limits for trucks, fees, signs, services)
Organic food promoting Project.
Special designed marketing measures to promote pre border regions and
facilitate fundraising, for example Championship of mushrooms picking, in
cooperation with WWF.
Development of transport infrastructure,
services and accessibility
Objective
To ensure development of transport infrastructure and value added
logistic services
Tasks
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New transport links and corridors
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Improvement of the border-crossing procedures
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Entering logistics projects
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Baltic Tangent 2
Closer link with local and international manufacturers (EU / Asia)
– list of companies
Drivers training
Wood and car market near the border
Pskov logistics specialist training with TSI
Just-in-time delivery
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Measures, defined in the strategies:
Development of qualitative street and road infrastructure. Building new roads,
increasing roads, covered by asphalt.
Increasing the number of parking places.
Rural road development programme.
Road surfacing improvement and strengthening to provide tonnage and prevent
business dependence on seasons.
Support different technologies for black surfacing application or dust removal.
Investigate effective usage possibilities in future for closed railway sections.
Promote narrow-gauge railway usage for tourism development.
Create joint information system for passenger transportation.
Coordinate public transport route development.
Promote international route network enlargement and service differentiation.
Promote transport and transit corridor development in addition to TINA (Transport
Infrastructure necessity assessment) network – VIA HANSEATICA, RAIL BALTICA
and local corridors “Vidzemes josta”, "Ziemeļu stīga".
Promote services on border crossing and border control points.
Plan railway and auto transit increase in the future.
Provide border crossing point in Berzini,
Promote access road to producing enterprises.
Create joint information system for passenger traffic.
Promote access to telecommunications call for emergency services.
Develop a network of bicycle roads and walking roads.
Building beltway around towns (Valka)
Elaborating transport schemes for towns.
Implementation of “Public transport” project.
Develop infrastructure improvement programs to promote also tourism development
– location of information signs on roads, development of bicycle roads.
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Construction and reconstruction of bridges
Optimization of transport flowers for the purpose of providing with requirements of
population and enterprises in transport services of local and distant communication.
Organization of transport system and improvement of traffic security.
Inspection and evaluation of dangerous places on the roads. Improve rescue service
work
Setting up logistics, marshalling yard and administrative center for cargo, motor and
railway transport management. Modernization of railway network to support effective
operation of ports.
Preparation of Daugavpils business park territory.
Creation of logistic terminal complexes
Development of measurement for business using and accomplishment of territories,
which are placed near ports, rail and motor stations, road interchanges, along
highways.
Construction of deep-water port and transport hub. Construction of container terminal
(Support to specialization of port infrastructure and economy within common Russian
strategy in Baltic Region.)
Creation of new sea cargo areas with the perspective of construction new
transshipping objects on potential alluvial territories
Creation of system of rear terminals aimed at moving the maximum of possible cargo
operation out of near-mooring zones to these terminals (the “dry port” system,
preliminary regarding container cargoes).
Construction of new sea passenger terminal on alluvial territories
Renovation and construction of railways.(Integration into transport scheme of Baltic
macro region)
Creation of cargo-and-passenger airport complex (hub), “Hrabrovo” airport.
Promote international bus route network enlargement and service differentiation
Transportation of natural gas to Estonia and Scandinavia, Construct automatic gas
division station near Valmiera.
Reality check
• Real activities and growth or usage of EU
money?
• How to make it liveable?
Thank u!
Cooperation strategy
• Needs assessment for integrated framework
• Potential cooperation scope, stakeholders,
interests:
– Development of transport infrastructure, services and
accessibility:
– Polycentric development of cities and towns;
– Environment and nature protection;
– Development of information society;
– Political co-operation
Polycentric development of cities
and towns
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Retoriskais jautājums par kustību. Sustainable development of compact city or public
transport between policentric settlements.
Links between cities (towns). Strong capitals and links between (London-ParisMinhene-Milana-Hamburga)
Policentric urban region could be set:
Region from 2-3 cities, non-konkurējoša, attālumā un saistītas
Specialization of cities;
Cooperation or networking of development centres. Critical weight – new possibilities
and environment form business development.
transfer of knowledge (skills, know-how) between companies, universities,
municipalities, NGOs etc in different towns and places;
public investments for development of entrepreneurship, if several towns and
places within the region are participating
joint projects for territorial marketing and seeking for investors, if the region is
promoted as an single unit;
improvement of physical communication (roads, traffic) between towns and
places, if this is part of wider development project;
joint tourism complexes and routes between different towns and places;
Polycentric development of cities
and towns
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Riga-St.Peterburg;
Kaliningrad-Riga-Pskov-Daugavpils-Velikije Luki - Rezekne;
Opocka-Ostrav-Ludza-Sebezh-Pitalova;
Travel to work areas
– Essence – not distance, but accessibility (shopping or leisure-related
trips, or flows of information, quality of broadband ICT infrastructure)
• Interaction, complementarity and some institutional action.
• Local business networks
• Traded and untraded interdependencies' (such as customers,
suppliers, collaborators, shared research and training, etc.)
• Indicators needed to monitor policentricity and explore its impacts.
Maping.
• Twining activities
Environment and nature protection
Development of information society
• High-speed connection in whole project
area
• Tehnoloģiju izlīdzināšana pierobežā
Political co-operation
• Difference of neighbouring regions
• Federal government are much richest as
Latvian government, but Latvian
municipalities are richest and capacitated
as Russian municipalities.
Stakeholders: Pskovskij,
Leningradskij oblastj
• Administration
– State level functions;
• Municipalities
Stakeholders: Latgale, Vidzeme
• LRAA, VRAA
Seeking for the right instruments
• Psychological barriers
• National level policy