SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME AND INNOVATION

The main aims to achieve which is regional development and finding the best models of regional and urban growth will be organized around 4 key themes :

1. Cities portals – cooperation between local authorities and citizens, cooperation between Cities (including URBACT II experiences and ideas), and implementation and transfer of knowledge between researchers and local communities. (e-government, D.INSPIRE).
2. Urban planning, architecture, land management
3. Space information systems and their informatization.
4. Data basis for experts.

For all these groups of experts and at the same time partners of the Project there will be organized working groups and meetings for creating links between them and to implement their ideas and methods to one system of exchange of knowledge and information about land planning, experiences and models, data basis which would be available for all regional and local actors but that can be also shared with other cities and regions in EU and other parts of the world that has the same problems and dilemmas in urban growth matters as revitalization, law systems, and the best practice that worked well in other cities.

After working groups there will be organized also conference to bring together all fields of research and to summarize all ideas that were born during working meetings.

All results of these meetings and new project will be published in literature and in conference materials, books and numerous internal documents and showed in special www site with description of all meetings and results of the project.

There is also planned to build new program for future summer institute to train young planners and other land management specialists and local authorities to adapt all ideas, that will be born during the project meetings and conferences.

Such kind of cooperation allows for better understanding of network and regional needs, let the system of planning works better using knowledge and good practice of all participants and let create better service for municipal and citizens and can help in recent dilemmas of urban development in Europe and around.

The results of the Action can put very good impact to the regional development especially for the regions that are still not enough successful in technologies and possibilities as the new model of life with wide use of Internet brings to citizens and new generation of people and giving them new goals, possibilities and chances for fruitful and special life.

The idea of Action is also to implicate ICT tools that works in other spheres of human activities to cities portals to make them more useful and attractive for people who search there not only information but also interactions with specialists and professional help.