Delivering the region renaissance doing regeneration Priority South Application round 2 Lead partner Daugavpils City Council LATVIA,  Daugavpils,  Kr. Valdemara 1 Contact person Tel.: +371 5404391 Fax: +371 5404357 Email: oksana@daugavpils.lv Brief summary of the project Cities involved in this project locate in the periphery in their countries. Each city faces a problem of centralization, when it almost always stays outside processes, which are mainly concentrated in capitals and around them. It certainly affects its development. The current economic disparities can be starkly illustrated. So there’s clearly been a strong push lately to use the new approach for revitalizing cities and neighborhoods within the cross-border region. To straighten the region is a multifunctional process, where the character and function of cities should be defined and realized. So each city with its defined mission in the region would straighten its potential and potential of its surrounding areas and as the result the whole region. The main objective of this PROJECT is targeted cooperation between cities from Latvia, Lithuania and Byelorussia for developing and testing an innovative approach to sustainable regeneration of cities and its surrounding areas within the cross-border region. PROJECT desires to improve the image of the region, support economic development and competitiveness and increase the cultural identity. Successful cooperation is a base for sustainable development within the region. Only communicating, meeting, exchanging of experiences with neighbor colleagues is possible to reach good results for the future cross-border region development. The idea is to gather representatives from cross-border region's cities Daugavpils, Kraslava, Zarasai, Visaginas, Utena, Braslav, Verhnedvinsk and Novapolotsk to achieve a focused, integrated region regeneration strategy. And then having for the basis this region regeneration strategy produce more detailed proposals for each of the citiy and prepare technical pilot projects' documentation for further implementation. Pilot projects would be a good example of public and private cooperation and encourage as public authorities as private sector for future initiatives and cooperation. The expected outputs will be training session for the region specialists, elaborated region regeneration strategy, 5 Area Regeneration Plans and 5 Implementation frameworks, technical and tender documentation for 5 pilot projects. The expected result of the project will be improved knowledge of the 30 region specialists, enhanced cooperation of the private and public institutions of 8 cities, creation of competence network as an active instrument to improve dessision -making process on regeneration issue. Duration 27(10.2005 - 12.2007) Budget (EUR) 340952.00 ERDF contribution: 255714.00 National co-financing EU Member States: 85238.00 INTERREG IIIA Budget of project: 340952.00 Non-eligible financing: 5500.00 Funding from EU programmes for third countries: .00 National co-financing for funding from EU programmes for third countries: 0 National financing (third countries): 0 Private financing (third countries): 0 Total budget: 346452.00 Partners Name of Institution, Town Country Region Contact information Daugavpils City Council LATVIA 0 Tel.: +371 5404391 Email: oksana@daugavpils.lv Kraslava county council LATVIA 0 Tel.: +371-5624383 Email: rukmans@kraslava.lv Zarasai District Municipality Administration LITHUANIA 0 Tel.: +37038953965 Email: ingrida.tatarune@zarasai.lt Utena Regional Municipality Administration LITHUANIA 0 Tel.: +370 389 61620 Email: info@utena.sav.lt Visaginas municipality administration LITHUANIA 0 Tel.: +370-386-31466 Email: projektai@visaginas.lt Braslav district Deputies' Committee BELARUS 0 Tel.: +375215322473 Email: braslav.sov@tut.by Novopolotsk executive committee BELARUS 0 Tel.: +375214531345 Email: novgik@vitebsk.by Verkhnedvinsk District Soviet BELARUS 0 Tel.: +375215121080 Email: verh@egr209.belpak.vitebsk.by Progress report From the beginning of implementing the project 'Delivering the region renaissance doing regeneration' following outputs were produced: - Introductory seminar promoting new Interreg project, cross-border cooperation and new method of economic development with 50 participants from 3 cross-border region's countries was organised; - 9 training session guided by UK experts and combining 1 theoretical seminar and 1 practical workshop was organised; - 8 Project Steering Committee Meetings and 20 Project meetings; - Study tour to Stockport was organised; - International seminar with 50 participants is organised. - 25-30 specialists are trained; - spatial, social, economic and cultural focus of the region is analysed; - regional regeneration strategy is developed, translated into national laguages and approved by 5 City Councils; -7000 units of booklets & 9000 units of brochures, are published; - 5 Regeneration Plans and 5 Implementation Frameworks are elaborated. - 1 Master Plan and 4 technical projects are developed Cooperation between municipalities involved in the project is expanding to different areas and spheres of interest and could be very prospective in the future. This partnership represents a new direction for municipalities. By partnering within This project cities will be able to target in a very specific way, projects which will have a genuine and lasting economic and social impact in cross-border region. Latvian and Lithuanian as well as Belarussian partners successfully cooperating in other different projects. Close window