Project Funding
COrridor 24 DEvelopment Rotterdam-Genoa
The project ‘CODE24’ intends the interconnection of economic development, spatial, transport and ecological planning along the trans-European railway axis (TEN-T) no. 24 from Rotterdam to Genoa. Corridor 24 covers a number of the most important economic regions in Europe. The major European north-south transport axis across the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland and Italy is linking the North Sea port of Rotterdam and the Mediterranean port of Genoa. Nevertheless, some major bottlenecks and a lack of trans-regional coordination still threaten the potential of the axis, limiting its economic and spatial development.
CODE24 aims at a coordinated transnational strategy to support the improvement and the development of the corridor. The overall objective is to accelerate and jointly develop the transport capacity of the entire corridor by ensuring optimal economic benefits and spatial integration while reducing negative impacts on the environment at local and regional level. By focussing on regional aspects in the corridor area and joint development strategies, the project will strengthen the position of regional actors and stakeholders. It will provide planning tools and tailor made solutions to remove major bottlenecks and enable pro-active stakeholder participation. This encompasses both: the development of the railway system as well as a sustainable spatial development.
CODE24 was approved under the Strategic Initiatives Framework of the INTERREG IVB NWE programme.
On behalf of the ETH Zurich and later of the Verband Region Rhein-Neckar, ets responsibility in the formal project application included the partner search, building up work plan, time and budget planning as well as phrasing text for the project proposal. Since the project is running et acts as coordinator of the project.
- Project size: about 6,7 million Euro project volume
- Project period: funded by the INTERREG IVB NWE programme from 2010 to 2013
- Project website: www.code-24.eu
COBRA MAN
Manager Coordinating Brownfield Redevelopment Activities
Urban regeneration on brownfield land is an important issue especially for the main metropolitan and industrial centres of Europe. Integral management strategies for the revitalization of derelict inner urban areas are scarce and if applied in a very site specific manner, often depending on national approaches. COBRA-Man tackles this issue at European level and will establish a harmonized management concept. The heart of the concept is the position of a brownfield manager embedded within existing municipal structures to reach most effective urban development. Linking implementation projects with exchange of knowledge between old and new member state practitioners will help to establish a fast track for transfer of know-how on brownfield management strategies and working skills.
We have developed the project idea – the positioning of brownfield managers – during the project REVIT. Together with the state capital of Stuttgart, we developed a concept for a funding in the EU programme Interreg IVB CENTRAL. We took a leading role in the partner search, the phrasing of the application and the formal submission.
- Project size: about 3,6 million Euro project volume
- Project period: funded by the INTERREG IVB CENTRAL programme from 2008 to 2011
- Project website: www.cobraman-ce.eu
URBAN SMS
Urban Soil Management Strategy
Regardless the fact, that soils in urban areas plays a crucial role for environmental conditions and the living quality soils are still seen only as resource for settlement development. Ongoing sealing activities leads to irreversible loss of soils with impact on biodiversity, water balance and climate.
To raise the attention to this topic and to include soil protection issues into the process of urban planning eleven project partners of the URBAN–SMS project committed themselves to elaborate an innovative soil management strategy to be integrated in the urban planning process.
On behalf of the Office for Environmental Protection of the state capital of Stuttgart, ets responsibility in the formal project application included building up work plan, time and budget planning as well as phrasing text for the project proposal. Since the project is running et acts as coordinator of the project.
- Project size: about 2,2 million Euro project volume
- Project period: funded by the INTERREG IVB CENTRAL programme from 2008 to 2012
- Project website: www.urban-sms.eu
FOKS
Focus on Key Sources of Environmental Risks
FOKS deals with management of groundwater pollution by priority industrial pollutants. Its general approach is to take up innovative tools and strategies developed by recent research and to transfer them to daily practice in groundwater risk management. This strategy facilitates fast implementation and optimal use of research results and it allows the water authorities to build their practical work on a sound scientific basis. FOKS will improve the quality of the groundwater resources as essential part of the environment (e.g. used for drinking water purposes) and will lead to a better protection of the environment by cleaning of existing groundwater damages and by removing sources of contaminated soils. By this furthermore a better use of degraded areas will be targeted. Focussing on the key sources of contamination and the use of innovative techniques leads to a higher efficiency of the remediation efforts. FOKS provides the decision support system required by the local authorities for the focus process. The environmental remediation measures open the possibility of investment as a basis for a sustainable and healthy growth in disadvantaged territories like contaminated sites and brownfields. FOKS will contribute to an adjustment of territorial disparities by mutual interaction and cooperation in the field of environmental management, administrative work and by implementation of innovative, advanced procedures. The project team consists of research institutes and municipalities which were involved in recent research and water authorities ready to make use of these experiences.
Together with the state capital of Stuttgart, we developed a concept for a funding in the EU programme Interreg IVB CENTRAL. We took a leading role in the partner search, the phrasing of the application and the formal submission.
- Project size: about 3,3 million Euro project volume
- Project period: funded by the INTERREG IVB CENTRAL programme from 2008 to 2011
- Project website: www.projectfoks.eu
MAGIC
Management of Groundwater at Industrially Contaminated Areas
The project was designed to promote sustainable spatial development by the abatement of large groundwater pollutions by applying the innovative, integral, emission-orientated management approach. On behalf of the Office for Environmental Protection of the state capital of Stuttgart, we supported the city in the development and submission of the project idea. After the approval of funding, we initiated the transnational technical cooperation between the partners and developed the final handbook.
- Project size: about 2.3 million euro project volume
- Project Period: funded by the INTERREG IIIB CADSES programme from 2005 to 2008
- Project website: www.magic-cadses.com
REVIT
For more effective and sustainable brownfield revitalisation
Between 2003–2007 six North West European partners have come together to improve regenerating their brownfield sites by sharing experience and developing new concepts and innovative approaches. et was responsible for the entire project management and coordination of transnational activities on behalf of the state capital Stuttgart.
- Project size: about 22 million euro project volume
- Project Period: funded by the INTERREG IIIB NWE programme from 2003 to 2007
- Project website: www.revit-nweurope.org
PROSIDE
Promoting Sustainable Inner Urban Development
The overall objective of the project was to ensure coherency and compatibility between private investors’ plans and municipal needs for sustainable urban development within a short and appropriate timeframe while enhancing the remediation of industrial sites using private funds. PROSIDE aimed to support spatial planning policy on prevention or mitigation of environmental damage. We took over the project management and developed best-practice studies on behalf of the UW Umweltwirtschaft GmbH Stuttgart.
- Project Period: funded by the INTERREG IIIB CADSES programme from 2003 to 2006
- Project website: www.proside.info
Application and management of transnational funded projects
We support you in partner search, building an effective project structure, project development and preparation of a project application for European and national funding programmes. We support cities, counties and universities in the development of project ideas and their realization by submitting grant applications and assist the implementation exemplified by the project idea
TransInnoWa
Transnational Innovation for sustainable regional Water management
The project aims at the mitigation of the negative effects of climate change on the water cycle at local and regional level. Innovation on technical level as well as on management level are needed to tackle the upcoming challenges. Competence centers will be clustering know how and transfer innovative solutions into practice. On behalf of the Stuttgart Region Economic Development Corporation et took a leading role in setting up the project consortium, developing the project idea, building up the work plan time and budget planning as well as phrasing text for the project proposal.
- Project size: about 3,99 million Euro project volume
- Project period: submitted under INTERREG IVB CENTRAL programme, 3rd call May 2010