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Hamburg Metropolitan Region Partners, organisation and projects

Welcome. Hamburg Metropolitan Region Partners, organisation and projects. Introduction. Organisation. Voluntary cooperation of the federal states Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein and Lower Saxony and 14 districts. Three federal states 14 districts and the City of Hamburg (800 municipalities)

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Hamburg Metropolitan Region Partners, organisation and projects

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  1. Welcome Hamburg Metropolitan Region Partners, organisationandprojects

  2. Introduction

  3. Organisation Voluntary cooperation of the federal states Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein and Lower Saxony and 14 districts • Three federal states • 14 districts and the City of Hamburg (800 municipalities) • 4.3 million inhabitants in total • 1.7 million inhabitants in the core city • 1.4 million employees • About 19.700 km² extension • Regional differences in settlement structures and economic wealth

  4. Network Why to cooperate in times of competition? • Joined platform for cooperation beyond administrative bondaries • Solving regional problems • Balancing the interests of rural an urban developement

  5. Objectives The main objectives of the Regional cooperation • Increasing international competitiveness, especially in business, science, transport, tourism and culture. • Guaranteeing general public services in times of demographic change and tight public budgets. • Developing joint approaches to regional planning and land use issues. • Finding strategies against climate change and taking steps against climate change.

  6. Promotion funds • Most important finance instrument • Designed to improve both the structure and development of Hamburg Metropolitan Region. • Hamburg and Lower Saxony each pay EUR 600,000 into their promotion fund each year. • The Hamburg/Schleswig-Holstein fund receives EUR 871,000 from each state annually. • Each year the funds underwrite projects valued at almost EUR 3 million.

  7. Regional councilhighest decision-making body Regional conferencecovers the main topics of priority relevant to the region, provides stimuli for regional cooperation Steering committeecoordinates and controls the participating bodies, institutions and cooperation networks Federations, politics, tourism and economic promotion agencies and professional bodies are directly involved in the cooperation. Secretariatsupports the steering committee, manages the projects , public relations work regional marketing, representing the Metropolitan Region also develops concepts and analyses relating to the future expert working groups Responsiblebodies • Regional council • Steering committee • Expert working groups • Regional conference • Secretariat

  8. Expert workinggroups • Transportation • Education • Ecological Affairs • Settlement developement • Economy • Tourism • Climate Protection

  9. Lead projects • GEFIS - Finding industrial and commercial sites • Lower Elbe Maritime Landscape (Competitiveness, quality of life) • Changing attitudes to land use (Housing development) • KLIMZUG-NORD (Climate protection) • Park and ride concept (public services)

  10. Joined development of industrial sites • GEFIS: industrialandcommercialsiteportal • Survey on mainsectorsandtheirfutureneedsforindustrialsites • Recommendationsfortheadministration • Guidelinesforcooperation

  11. Lower Elbe Maritime Landscape Maritime Region Lower Elbe • Supporting regional Tourism by co-financing project-management, infrastructure and maritime heritage

  12. Changing attitudes to land use • sets out to raise awareness about “land” as a resource amongst municipalities, politicians, ownerbuilders, building financiers, architects, planners and developers. • The project’s job is to work out solutions for sustainable use of land in housing development.

  13. KLIMZUG-NORD • applied climate change research in the Hamburg Metropolitan Region. • Effects of climate change on town and country areas are researched and recommendations worked out for adaptation. • The goal is to produce an action plan for the metropolitan region up to the year 2050.

  14. Park andrideconcept • 270.000 inbound; 70.000 outboundcommuters • 184 park and ride facilities • 63 have an average utilization of more than 90%. 40 more than 100%.

  15. EconomicPromotion Aagency Council

  16. Sectors • Hamburg Metropolitan Region focuses on a policy of innovation in their core economic sectors • Economy, Science and Politics cooperate for this purpose • Engineering • Chemicals • Port and Logistics • Media and IT • Food Indurstry • Life Sciences • Aerospace • Maritime economy • Renewable Energies • Tourism

  17. Employees

  18. CooperationofclusterInitiatives

  19. Thankyou for your attention! Marion Köhler Secretariat of the Hamburg Metropolitan Region Press and public relations +49 (40)42841-2604 presse@metropolregion.hamburg.de www.english.metropolregion.hamburg.de

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