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Developing an Urban Policy for the EU in the 21st Century - A Shared Responsibility of Public and Private Shareholders

Open Days, EESC Workshop 09A03, 09 October 2012

• Dr. Rolf-Barnim Foth

Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg Head of Task Force Northern German Cooperation Hamburg Metropolitan Region Marketing & Tourism Ministry for Economy, Transport and Innovation Alter Steinweg 1-3 20459 Hamburg phone +49 40 42841-2617/18 rolf-barnim.foth@bwvi.hamburg.de

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• Hamburg Metropolitan Region: Who we are
• Why a „New Deal“ in urban-rural relations ?
• How to combine international competitiveness and

cohesion

• Examples
• Conclusions

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Hamburg: Who we are …

• Germany’s 2nd largest city with a population of 1.800.000

> 20% international population

• pacemaker in a metropolitan region of 5 million inhabitants
• European Green Capital 2011
• first European logistic hub
• second largest port & aviation technology centre in Europe

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Hamburg Metropolitan Region: Who we are …

• Metro-Region: 4 Federal States, 17 counties, 2 major cities, 26.000 km²
• foreign trade hub for 800 years and turntable between Northern Europe

and Asia, Latin America and Africa

• regional cluster policies in aviation, logistics, life science, maritime

industries, new energies, media & IT

• highly attractive region to live and work between the Baltic and the North

Seas

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European visibility from U.S. or China Most European cities or regions are too small to reach or to maintain global visibility on their

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Metropolitan Region building: Urban + urban/urban + rural =

• ne answer to globalisation

International competitiveness and cohesion can be combined !

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• As an answer to globalisation,

Hamburg has set up a comprehensive growth strategy in 2001 – together with the region.

• Start with Metropolitan Area as

already existing functional region.

• Growing necessity to enlarge

and to create a farther reaching functional region.

• Such emerging functional

regions can cross international borders.

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Hamburg commuter area: 350.000 inbound; 100.000 outbound

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Hamburg Metropolitan Region is extending its urban + urban + rural cooperation to Denmark and Southern Sweden (Skane). Topics (e.g.): Tourism, logistics, wind energy, creative industries, food, life science , university cooperation Aim: enhance competitiveness + global visibility

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Enlarging Hamburg‘s functional region: Cooperation Study Project. Phase I. 2007-2010, Phase II. 2010-

Participants:

• Federal States, cities, counties
• Chambers of Commerce
• Companies
• Universities

Working Groups:

• Campus Nord

(Northern German university network)

• Preparing the fixed Fehmarn Belt link
• Installation of a cluster „Maritime Industry“
• Expansion of Hamburg‘s „Logistics“ cluster
• Expansion of the cluster „Life Science“
• Regional food initiative
• Joint tourism projects
• Joint North German marketing
• Initiatives in public transport
• Strengthening the role of rural regions
• Qualified workforce in technical sectors

Territorial Partnership Northern Germany – Metroregion Hamburg

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Public private partnership each dot = 1 company

(Source: NordLB 2008)

7.944 employees www.maritimes- cluster.de

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European Aerospace Cluster Partnership

• www.eacp-aero.eu

The future of European competitiveness depends on (e.g. cluster) cooperation among regions. We all row in the same European boat – the competitors are

• utside !

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• Launched in August 2012 by Hamburg Metropolitan Region

with support by Federal Ministry of Economy (BMWI)

• 10 SME from in and around Hamburg, 2 R&D-institutions

and Hamburg Aviation Cluster network

• Technological focus: Bionical and hybrid approach in

Lightweight design

• Lead Markets: Aerospace, Renewable Energies, Lifescience
• Goals: Initiation of research projects and acquisition of

public funding in the field of lightweight design

• www.norlin.info

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• Launched in 2010 by Hamburg Metropolitan Region with

support by Federal Ministry of Economy (BMWI)

• 10 SME, 5 universities and 2 Fraunhofer Institutes from in

and around Hamburg

• Technological focus: Organic and Printed Electronics
• Lead Markets: Lifescience, Aerospace, Print Media
• Goals: Initiation of research projects and acquisition of

public funding in the field of lightweight design

• www.ope-n.de

Organic and Printed Electronics North

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• 150 km Elbe river without tourism cooperation (5 Federal States, 6

„ERDF Objective 1“ counties)

• 3 years of preparation; project start in 2011 (300.000 Euro)
• Expected results (Hamburg): Strengthening of the city‘s soft locational

factors (attractiveness for qualified workforce); keeping expenditure in the region; getting tourists close to Hamburg (daytrip)

• Expected results (rural partners): better marketing, more tourism, more

jobs, better income in a beautiful, but less developed region

• www.erlebnis-elbe.de

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Oberthema... (weiß) Bitte überschreiben. Unterthema... (blau) Bitte überschreiben. Reversed approach in Hamburg Metropolitan Region – expressing rural demands

• Within one working group of the MORO-project for the first time the

rural regions of Hamburg MR formulated their own position on how to cooperate with the metropolis: „Bad Bevensen Declaration“

• As a follow-up and on the basis of a scientificly backed consultation

process two projects were initiated: 1. The future of the health care in rural regions + establishment of health care networks among cities and regions 2. Renewable energies in rural areas + networks

• www.metropolregion.hamburg.de

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Oberthema... (weiß) Bitte überschreiben. Unterthema... (blau) Bitte überschreiben. Conclusion: Added value for urban and rural partners

• Metropolitan partners get a broader basis for securing international
• competitiveness. Rural partners get “into the driver‘s seat” and

receive a strong partner at eye level.

• Win-win situations by joining forces and comparative advantages –

cohesion newly defined !

• Cooperation brings together actors from different spheres - and
• pens stake holders‘ minds for cross-administrative-border activities.
• Partnership contributes to securing jobs in remoter regions, more

value creation remains inside the common region, innovation and technology transfer available anywhere throughout the region, qualified workforce is easier to get to remoter regions.

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Where could Europe be of help ?

• Europe should take a new view on city-regional cooperation in

general and understand it as an opportunity within the EU 2020 Strategy and equally within traditional Cohesion Politics.

• Europe should help simplifying cooperation in, beyond and among

(functional) city-regions (programs, statistics, NUTS).

• Europe should encourage cooperation within all types of

functional regions e.g. by an adjustment of the regional scope

• f Interreg IVa after 2013 (condition regional funding on EGTC with

European added value).

• The EU-Com and national authorities of spatial planning should run
• r accompany European „model projects“.