FUNCTIONS & FUNDING 15.9.2010 Matti Karhula, City Planning Manager, City of Oulu

CHAIN OF EXPERIENCES

Funding Experiences of the functional centres from the B-Team partners: how the project was started how the partners were chosen how the project was financed how the project was implemented what are the functions what are the experiences of the users like what could have been done differently

Issues Financing, Public-private partnership How is the main idea found? What kind of a process is needed to handle the development project? How to combine different actors? How to find best practices, experts and investors? What are the investing and funding models? What kind of functions are there? 2. Functions & Activities: Housing – Harbour – Quays – Seafaring – Rescue – Recreation How to create a maritime cultural centre considering harbour life, fishing, shipbuilding, cultural heritage and entertainment? How to combine cultural heritage with the new functions? How to enable different cultural functions and organisations, including the third sector, to work together? How to take into account all the seasons? 3. Consequences of climate change: sea level, wind conditions, rainfalls 4. Soil: contamination, bearing capacity

History / Port of Oulu