Project Details

DeCoDe: Challenges of Regional Centres: Depopulation Control, Development

Short Description and Goal

The project aims to create an international, sustainable network of European cities, which are regional centres in their countries, in order to share experiences on depopulation and return migration processes and their impact. This project was organized within the framework of the European Union program “Europe for Citizens”.

Detailed Description

Project “Challenges of regional centers: depopulation control, development – best practices”which was organized within the framework of the “Europe for Citizens” program, facilitated the international exchange of experiences in the context of depopulation between regional centers in Europe to enable them to return migration processes and their impact.

During this project the involved cities collaborated internationally and compiled proposals for depopulation control, which then could be used and integrated by the cities in their planning documents. The cooperation between these regional centers within the framework of this project was designed to share problems, ideas for the future and good practices to maintain or even increase the population in the participating cities. This process promoted the cultural identities, traditions, historical heritage and economic activities of cities at European level. In total, within the framework of this project five international meetings were held with participating cities, in which the depopulation prevention questions were discussed.

Goals of the project

Goals of the project “Challenges of regional centers: depopulation control, development – best practices” (DeCoDe) are as follows:3

  • Establish a network of regional centers affected by depopulation to promote the exchange of good practices between cities and develop a depopulation control action plan for the participating cities to strengthen local economic structure and raise citizens’ awareness regarding mobility in European cities;
  • Create and strengthen the relationship between European cities;
  • Promote the European citizenship;
  • Enhance and expand knowledge about depopulation process in European largest cities, regional centers and local municipalities;
  • Popularize the participating cities, make them vivid with the exchange of information, tourism materials, presentations, traditions and cultural heritage;
  • Make the citizens of involved cities appreciate the place where they live;
  • Develop the participating cities to make them attractive and suitable for the needs of modern citizens;
  • Organize international meetings and conferences on prevention measures of depopulation.

The project finished on December 2019.

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Resources This Project Needed

The project « Challenges of Regional Centres: Depopulation Control, Development – best practices » was funded with the support of the European Union under the Programme “Europe for Citizens” Project No. 595269-CITIZ-1-2017-2-LV-CITIZ-NT

The project consisted of 11 events in different cities and involved directly 294 citizens with a total of 36% of invited participants in the project events.

Learnings

Description of 11 events held throughout the project can be found here:
https://ceipes.org/wp-content/uploads/Final-Results_DeCoDe_template_EN-1.pdf

Initiated by

  • DAUGAVPILS CITY COUNCIL
  • KAUNAS CITY MUNICIPALITY
  • LODZKIE REGION
  • CITY ADMINISTRATION OF MAGDEBURG
  • CEIPES (CENTRO INTERNAZIONALE PER LA PROMOZIONE DELL’EDUCAZIONE E LO SVILUPPO)
  • MUNICIPALITY OF VEJLE
  • ADIMAN (ASOCIACION PARA DESARROLLO INTEGRAL DE LA MANCHELA CONQUENSE)
  • ACTA CENTER (ASOCIATIA CENTRUL EUROPEAN PENTRU INTEGRARE SOCIOPROFESIONALA)

Initiators are

• Public institution

Funded by

• Municipality
• Federal or State Funds

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Project Topics

Agriculture, Civil Society, Environment, Climate & Energy, Governance, Health Care, Inclusion & Welfare, Public Services & Administration, Rural Development, Sustainable development, Urban Development

Level / Project Complexity /

Medium

Participating Cities

  • Daugavpils
  • Kaunas
  • Magdeburg
  • Palermo
  • Oradea
  • Vejle
  • Casasimarro

Sizes of Participating Cities

• 1.000 - 5.000
• 5.000 - 20.000
• 20.000 - 100.000
• 100.000 - 500.000
• 500.000 - 1,5 Mio

Participating Countries

  • Latvia
  • Lithuania
  • Poland
  • Germany
  • Romania
  • Italy
  • Denmark
  • Spain

Project Region(s)

• Europe

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