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ESPON ACTAREAThinking and Planning in Areas of Territorial Cooperation
Alicia Cuche
Swiss Federal Office for Spatial Development (ARE)
Lead stakeholder
Regional and national spatial planning:
new challenges and new opportunities
ESPON Outreach event - Dublin- 9th May 2018
What is soft territorial cooperation?
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• Strategic medium to long term objectives
• Seeks to enhance the capacities of involved players,
making them actors of their own development
• Renew relations between
• Levels
• Sectors
• Types of actors
• Open and Fuzzy
• sectoral scope
• geographical boundaries
• partnership
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Swiss Spatial Strategy &Swiss Action Areas
The notion of ‘communities of intent’
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• Identifying issues and topics for which
a ‘territorially embedded consensus’ may be identified
• Does not presume a pre-existing ‘community’
• Does not imply that soft territorial cooperation
is about promoting consensus
• Does not negate the fact that actors and territories may be in competition
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Schuler & Dessemontet
2016
Exemple: International Spatial DevelopmentCommission of Lake Constance (ROK-B)
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Source: map.geo.admin.ch
ROK-B
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Policy briefs and Handbook
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Strengths of soft territorial cooperation:
Openness to involve different tiers of government and public & private staholders on equalfooting
Flexibility to choose the «optimal» scale and geographic-boundaries of policy design and
implementation
Voluntary and participatory nature of governance
Diffusion of the study in Switzerland:
Translated versions of the Handbook
Summerised booklet on the Swiss Action Areas
Workshops
ACTAREA Workshop’s with ROK-B
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Proposed possible future developments
Bigger picture
Support to regions and actors of cooperation instances
Supported a intense discussion on the future of the cooperation
«door-opener»
Advantages of Soft Territorial Cooperation
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Openness to involve different tiers of government and public and private stakeholders on
equal footing.
Flexibility to choose the «optimal» scale and geographic boundaries for policy design and
implementation
Voluntary and participatory nature of governance
Complementary to other existing and more institutionalised collaboration
Don’t replace traditional spatial planning
In Ireland and
Northern Ireland:
the Belfast-Dublin
corridor
«Atlas of European Soft Territorial Cooperation» available on
espon.eu/actarea
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Potentials
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A guiding principle in the pursuit
of territorial cohesion
Challenges the focus of Functional Area
Could be a central component of future
cohesion policy
Recommendations
Many advantages associated
to fuzzy approaches to cooperation
No need for dedicated funding.
However, stable resources for
facilitators essential.
Coherent multi-level governance
does not emerge spontaneously
// Thank youAlicia Cuche, Swiss Federal Office for Spatial Development
This presentation will be made available at: www.espon.eu/dublin
