1. ESPON Workshop at the Open Days
Brussels, 5 October 2010
Cooperation: the benefits of cooperating across internal and external borders
Cities as nodes of cooperation
Selected results from the FOCI project
Moritz Lennert, IGEAT-ULB

2. Scales of cooperation

3. Intra-metropolitan dynamics
Typology of intra-urban dynamics in European LUZ, in the years 2000

4. Cities decoupling from their hinterland ?
Change of disparities in the development level between the metropolis and its regional hinterland in

5. Cities embedded in national systems
Share (%) of the total variance in total GDP (pps) growth between cities in Europe

6. Cities as gateways of global cooperation
Continental gatekeepers and representatives for worldwide networks of multinational firms

7. Potentials for cooperation

8. Cities in firm networks
FUA centralities in the network of multinational firms with a distance below 100km

9. Cities as nodes in connectivity networks
City network daily return accessibility by rail between a selected list of metropolitan areas between 5h and 23h (time-table based)

10. Cities in networks of research and innovation
Cooperation in selected Framework Programme research projects in the Eastern Balkans

11. Enhancing cooperation
Elements of difficulty for cooperation
Hindering factors linked to the institutional framework
heterogeneity of competences
limits of competencies
inadequacy of administrative boundaries in relation to the issues on the ground
limitations in financial resources of the respective administrative levels of the partnership
Hindering factors linked to the relationship between partners
competition between partners of similar weight
mistrust of small vs. bigger partners
inadequacy between city links and firm links
Elements favouring cooperation
Identification of concrete and reasonable objectives that are attractive for all partners
Identification of objectives requiring the joint intervention of all partners
Cross-border networks because of the particularly strong incoherences across borders, in fields such as transport, infrastructure provision, etc

12. Moritz Lennert
IGEAT – ULB
Thank you !