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In this database you can find information on projects funded in the period 2007-2013.

- Application calls -Round 1Round 2Round 3Round 4Round 5Round 9

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1. fostering innovations
2. Internal and external accessibility
3. Baltic Sea as a common resource
4. Attractive and competitive cities and regions

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- Partner country -BELARUSBELGIUMDENMARKESTONIAFINLANDGERMANYLATVIALITHUANIANORWAYPOLANDSWEDENUNITED KINGDOM

- Partner Region -[ BE ] Région de Bruxelles-Capitale / Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest[ BE ] Prov. West-Vlaanderen[ BY ] Minskaya Oblastj, g. Minsk.[ BY ] Grodnenskaya Oblastj.[ BY ] Brestskaya Oblastj.[ BY ] Vitebskaya Oblastj.[ BY ] Gomelskaya Oblastj.[ DE ] Niederbayern[ DE ] Berlin[ DE ] Brandenburg - Nordost[ DE ] Brandenburg - Südwest[ DE ] Bremen[ DE ] Hamburg[ DE ] Mecklenburg-Vorpommern[ DE ] Braunschweig[ DE ] Hannover[ DE ] Lüneburg[ DE ] Chemnitz[ DE ] Sachsen-Anhalt[ DE ] Schleswig-Holstein[ DK ] Hovedstaden[ DK ] Sjælland[ DK ] Syddanmark[ DK ] Midtjylland[ DK ] Nordjylland[ EE ] Eesti[ ES ] Cataluña[ FI ] Itä-Suomi[ FI ] Etelä-Suomi[ FI ] Länsi-Suomi[ FI ] Pohjois-Suomi[ FI ] Åland[ LT ] Lietuva[ LV ] Latvija[ NO ] Oslo og Akershus[ NO ] Hedmark og Oppland[ NO ] Sør-Østlandet[ NO ] Agder og Rogaland[ NO ] Vestlandet[ NO ] Trøndelag[ NO ] Nord-Norge[ Ot ] Other[ PL ] Lodzkie[ PL ] Mazowieckie[ PL ] Malopolskie[ PL ] Slaskie[ PL ] Lubelskie[ PL ] Podkarpackie[ PL ] Podlaskie[ PL ] Wielkopolskie[ PL ] Zachodniopomorskie[ PL ] Lubuskie[ PL ] Dolnoslaskie[ PL ] Opolskie[ PL ] Kujawsko-Pomorskie[ PL ] Warminsko-Mazurskie[ PL ] Pomorskie[ RU ] St Petersburg[ RU ] Leningradskaya Oblast[ RU ] Karelia Republic[ RU ] Kaliningradskaya Oblast[ RU ] Pskovskaya Oblast[ SE ] Stockholm[ SE ] Östra Mellansverige[ SE ] Småland med öarna[ SE ] Sydsverige[ SE ] Västsverige[ SE ] Norra Mellansverige[ SE ] Mellersta Norrland[ SE ] Övre Norrland[ UK ] East Anglia[ UK ] Inner London

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Project acronym: Trans in Form (TiF)

Project title: Transforming rural regions by launching scenarios, new narratives and attractive urban design

Application call: 2

Priority: 4. Attractive & competitive cities and regions

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The partners in Trans in Form are local and regional authorities in Norway, Sweden, Latvia, Lithuania, Germany and Poland. In addition a Norwegian Research Institute.

These countries have historically and today again close relations. We see that migration and political and economic change in Europe is reconnecting the populations more and more. One of the investigations by the project was to find out how migration and attractiveness are connected and how change is influenced by it. One common problem for smaller places in Europe is the lack of access to leading networks and the lack of investments and national attention. As depopulation for smaller places and rural regions is a result of the ongoing European development there is a need for better development strategies. How can success stories be told and how can best practices help to raise awareness among decision makers and professionals in an international environment?

The Trans in Form project has introduced attractive and competitive concepts for development of rural regions and smaller towns. Due to the fact that smaller towns and medium sized cities are usually not paying so much attention to urban design and also disconnected from leading networks of architect and designers there was a need for a project which could connect places outside the metropolitan areas and provide international expertise.

How can smaller places learn from each other and from the metropolitan areas? Is it possible to facelift "ugly towns" through transformation and better ideas? Is it possible to make dull places more vibrant through a more condensed and conscious development?

The project managed to provide international expertise to the regions and local towns by organizing a range of transnational workshops which resulted in the creation of dozens of future scenarios and hundred of urban design ideas and drawings. The content of the different proposals were diverse, however some common principles are running though the proposals, such as; the compact towns with multifunctional space exploitation, the transformation of waist areas and industrial premises into new housing, shops and service premises, the five minutes walk, the importance and potential of social meeting places, modern lightscape and attractive pedestrian areas etc.

Achievements of the project so far:

The project has benchmarked the attractiveness of the partners through an "attractiveness barometer". This research was carried out and gave some very interesting findings. The ongoing political and demographic change in Europe influenced the partners regions even throughout the project. The research showed that the changes are so severe in some countries that local and regional growth strategies have minimal impact. It looks like the national strategies and macro economics are more important than local and regional decisions in some countries. This means that the attractiveness for settlement is linked to the heavy and fundamental structures, like jobs, house construction and communication, which are difficult and expensive to affect locally. The correlation between migration and the number of restaurants, pubs and cafes indicates that there is also a link between attractiveness and a “softer” kind of attribute.

The project has explored how storytelling can be developed through the creation of new narratives which are based on the change of identity and ongoing transformation of social and economic structures. This approach to regional marketing and branding is different from the traditional storytelling where established narratives are reproduced over and over again even though they are not relevant anymore and don't work. The TiF project introduced a more ambient storytelling which is more based on a contemprary approach, transforming the way people experience places by creating multi-mediated marketing campaigns using experiential methodology, shifting from consumer as the target to consumer as collaborator.

In "The Roadmap to Rural Highlight", the concept of ambient media relates to form and content, but it could also be ambient media technology.

The project managed to elaborate plans for investments in Suwalki and Jelgava and influenced signficantly the investments in Notodden and Tranemo. The INTERREG IVB priority 4 limitations to do transnational investments, did not make it possible to have support for hard investments. Suwalki City Municipality still managed to find funding by other means, and show that INTERREG planning projects can be used as a tool for investments.

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