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Hamburg Metropolitan Region
Partners, organisation and projects
Welcome
Introduction
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
Voluntary cooperation of the federal states Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein and Lower Saxony and 14 districts
Organisation
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
Network
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.
Objectives
• 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.
Promotion funds
• Regional council
• Steering committee
• Expert working
groups
• Regional conference
• Secretariat
Regional conference covers the main topics of priority relevant to the region, provides stimuli for regional
cooperation
Federations, politics, tourism and economic promotion agencies and professional bodies are directly involved in the cooperation.
Regional council
highest decision-making body
Secretariat supports 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
Steering committee
coordinates and controls the participating bodies, institutions and cooperation networks
Responsible bodies
Expert working groups
• Transportation
• Education
• Ecological Affairs
• Settlement developement
• Economy
• Tourism
• Climate Protection
• 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)
Lead projects
Joined development of industrial sites
• GEFIS: industrial and commercial site portal
• Survey on main sectors and their future needs for industrial sites
• Recommendations for the administration
• Guidelines for cooperation
Maritime Region Lower Elbe
• Supporting regional Tourism by co-financing project-management, infrastructure and maritime heritage
Lower Elbe Maritime Landscape
• 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.
Changing attitudes to land use
• 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.
KLIMZUG-NORD
Park and ride concept
• 270.000 inbound; 70.000 outboundcommuters
• 184 park and ride facilities
• 63 have an average utilization of more than 90%. 40 more than 100%.
Economic Promotion Aagency Council
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
Employees
Cooperation of cluster Initiatives
Thank you for your attention!
Marion KöhlerSecretariat of the Hamburg Metropolitan Region
Press and public relations+49 (40)42841-2604
presse@metropolregion.hamburg.dewww.english.metropolregion.hamburg.de