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Cities in Dialogue Final MECIBS
Conference Nyköping 13 14 June 2005
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Aim of the conference

• Discuss the results
• Edit and approve the recommendations
• Visit Nyköping and Norrtälje
• Future cooperation?

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MECIBS Central objectives

• To foster balanced spatial development by
  sustaining the development of medium sized
  cities.
• Within this objective the project aims at
• understanding urban restructuring based on
  comparative and concrete examples
• forming recommendations for the interplay between
  local and national strategies based upon a bottom
  up process, and
• within an integrated perspective on economic,
  environmental and social development
• forming a network of medium sized cities to
  facilitate exchange of experiences and mutual
  learning.

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MECIBS Methodological approach

• The project will be carried out jointly by city
  representatives and experts
• Six conferences will be arranged on different
  locations in the BSR facilitating in-situ
  comparisons
• Case studies of cities will be carried out
  focusing on lessons of cities in crises, lessons
  of cities success fully restructured and lessons
  of established networks between cities

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MECIBS Dissemination

• General accessible and updated information on the
  project
• Internet site managed by the lead partner
• Easy and focused information for those
  interested
• brief city reports
• focused thematic reports
• Events to be exposed to wider public and target
  groups
• The main events are the 6 conferences
• Press releases to be distributed back home of all
  the cities
• Copies will be send to regional and national
  governments
• Targeted policy information
• Final recommendations of the project to be
  distributed to relevant political bodies, i.e.
  national governments, BSR co-operation and EU.

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Results

• A new understanding of
• urban transition
• urban action
• Exchange of experience
• A unique network of cities and researchers
• Baltic Sea Solutions
• Web-site
• Publications - with a variety of readers
• Recommendations

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Urban profiles

Number of copies to be delivered in
Nyköping Cities 45 Researchers 5 450 more copies
available for later deliveries
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Case-study folders
How many copies do you need?
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Case-study reports
A number of reports published by the research
partners
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Final report
Introduction WP1 Cities in transformation 5
articles WP2 Regeneration in MECIBS Cities 6
articles WP 3 Social and Environmental Aspects
of Urban Transformation 4 chapters WP 4 Urban
and Regional Networking WP 5 Policy options and
recommendations
Publish a separate folder ?
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The programme
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The programme
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The programme
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The workshops
How many copies of folders would you like?
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MECIBS Expected outcome

• A number of urban biographies of medium sized
  cities
• Concrete examples of the regional impact of
  transnational networking
• Concrete measures on the interplay between
  restructuring on the one hand and environment and
  social-demographic processes on the other
• A cross-national network of cities with a huge
  potential for learning by exchange of experience
  
• Policy recommendations on local strategies and
  the interplay between local and national regional
  policies.