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This lecture seeks to provide an understanding of the specific spatial development challenges in Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe. In the winter-semester 2020/21 the focus is set on the Danube Region. The European Strategy for the Danube Region (EUSDR), a macro-regional strategy, was initiated in 2011. The Danube Transnational Cooperation Programme became its successor in 2015. Twelve nation states are expected to cooperate in the frame of this strategy.
In European spatial development, the complexity of co-operation on spatial development issues across state borders is often underestimated. State borders are very often generalized, because of their "permeability" and are in most cases assigned to one of the following two categories: "closed borders" (the external borders of the European Union) and "open borders" (the internal borders of the European Union).
These simplistic approach - which is quite justified for individual topics, as in the case of European trade and economic relations - deceives about the actual complexity of cross-border spatial development issues. A situation that needs to be questioned.
Other questions to be considered in this context are:
In light of the global dimension of the major challenges of the 21st century (climate change, digitalisation, migration, ...) it is becoming increasingly clear that most ecological, economic and social problems can no longer (or only partially) be solved at a national level. Since many of these issues are also strongly related to the central tasks of spatial development and spatial planning, the question arises if there is an urgent need to elaborate and implement a modern, comprehensive and coordinated strategy for European spatial development. More than 20 years after the publication of the European Spatial Development Perspective (ESDP), there were still a number of other initiatives and documents in this area (Territorial Agenda, Urban Agenda) but no longer an integrated strategy document in this field. This master project therefore aims to consider how a European Spatial Development Perspective for the year 2020 could look like, which, as a key target document for coordinating the various national spatial development plans as well as the spatially relevant policy areas of the EU (Cohesion Policy, Common Agricultural Policy, Environmental Policy, Trans-European Networks, ...) would be able to effectively meet the challenges mentioned above. The main aim is to consider how the existing instruments of spatial planning and spatial development in the Member States and the spatially relevant policy areas of the EU can be further developed in such a way that they can contribute to a sustainable solution of the pressing problems. However, the project will not only analyse the problems, but will also develop concrete goals, instruments and options for action, which should lead to the concrete draft of an "ESDP 2020".
Based on the lectures, discussions, conference contributions and literature research, the students are invited to develop future perspectives for the macro region Danube-Region. All visioneering contributions (from models of stagnation, development hype, real future-oriented, futuristic-utopian or even dystopian approaches) should be argue plausible and professional.
The end product by which the task can be illustrated and presented is freely selectable and ranges from strategy papers (policy paper), to interactive maps, graphic processing such as picture book, comic book, picture exhibition or catalogue, to interactive presentations such as “Prezi” or a short film.
Link Zoom-Konferenz (https://tuwien.zoom.us/j/96922193527)
Attendance, collaboration on content, development of a perspectives for the macro region Danube-Region
Teil des Modul 5 "Europäische Regionalentwicklung"
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