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Project
title
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Increasing
Effectiveness of Territorial Strategic Planning
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Priority
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3.0
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Lead
applicant
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Contact
person
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Boris
S. Zhikharevich
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Organisation
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Resource
Centre for Strategic Planning, ICSER Leontief Centre
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E-mail
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Zhikh@leontief.ru
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Homepage
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Address
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Izmaylovskii
pr. 14, 190000-Saint Petersburg, Russia
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Phone
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+7812
3166246
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Mobil
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Fax
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+7812
1126767
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Thematic
key words
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Macroregional
strategies, Business environment,
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Project
description
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The
proposed project could include the following stages:1)Forming
a network of 8-15 regions practicing strategic
planning on both regional and city levels;2)Holding an
inception conference to share the regions’ general
experiences in strategic planning implementation;3)Selecting
areas, where each of the regions has achieved best
results, e.g.: Statement of objectives and mission
formulation; mechanisms for mobilising stakeholders
and NGOs to participate in strategic economic planning
as a basis for implementing private and public
investment projects; city marketing and mobilisation
of external investments; development monitoring and
specific industry development forecasts; economic
strategies for cities with mono-specialisation;
investment strategies for reviving city sites with
acute environmental problems; reconciliation between
regional and city programmes; coordination of city
strategic planning on regional and interregional
levels; spatial planning strategies; municipal real
estate management; specific types of investment
projects; infrastructure development projects.4)Preparing
reports on each region’s experience in the specific
areas above and taking additional research efforts to
confirm the efficiency of methods used; 5)Establishing
a WWW-site for strategic planning experience
sharing;6)Holding a series of workshops (10-12
workshops in all) in each participating region to
discuss the strategic planning area in which a given
region has shown its best performance;7)Publishing
each workshop’s proceedings to be included into the
final volume to be entitled 'Best Strategic Planning
Practices in the Baltic Sea Region';8)Holding a final
conference.The duration of the programme – 3 years.
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Central
objectives
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The
main project goal is to improve understanding and
increase the role of strategic planning in managing
sustainable development and economic growth in the
Baltic Sea region. In the last two years strategic
planning has become fairly popular with Russian cities
and regions. However, effective planning in Russia is
hampered by the lack of experience. In many cases the
planers underestimate the importance of spatial
planning or intra-, and inter-region cooperation. One
should note, though, that EC countries’ regions also
show mixed results in strategic planning development,
despite the proven fact that strategic planning is so
far the best instrument of sustainable regional growth.
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Expected
benefits
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Interregional
cooperation in comparing notes on strategic planning
development could be both beneficial and fruitful for
a number of regions in the North-west of Russia, as
well as in Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Germany,
Netherlands, and Great Britain.This project can be of
special importance for St. Petersburg, as it is
preparing to update its strategic plan for the
city’s 300th anniversary in 2003 and is striving to
strengthen its position as an organising centre in the
North-west of Russia and the Baltic Region
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Partners
found
already
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of
Russia: St. Petersburg and Leningrad Oblast, North-West
regions Archangelsk Oblast,Pskov Oblast, and the
Republic of Karelia.
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Partners
searched
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The
regions of other countries of Baltic Sea region –
regions in Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Germany.
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Estimated
budget
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500.000
EURO INTERREG III B 250.000 EURO TACIS CBC
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Date
of submission
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05/2003
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