Hamburg Metropolitan Region

Partners, organisation and projects

Welcome

Introduction

Three federal states

14 districts and the City of Hamburg (800 municipalities)

4.3 million inhabitants in total

1.7 million inhabitants in the core city

1.4 million employees

About 19.700 km² extension

Regional differences in settlement structures and economic wealth

Voluntary cooperation of the federal states Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein and Lower Saxony and 14 districts

Organisation

Why to cooperate in times of competition?

• Joined platform for cooperation beyond administrative bondaries

• Solving regional problems

• Balancing the interests of rural an urban developement

Network

The main objectives of the Regional cooperation

• Increasing international competitiveness, especially in business, science, transport, tourism and culture.

• Guaranteeing general public services in times of demographic change and tight public budgets.

• Developing joint approaches to regional planning and land use issues.

• Finding strategies against climate change and taking steps against climate change.

Objectives

• Most important finance instrument

• Designed to improve both the structure and development of Hamburg Metropolitan Region.

• Hamburg and Lower Saxony each pay EUR 600,000 into their promotion fund each year.

• The Hamburg/Schleswig-Holstein fund receives EUR 871,000 from each state annually.

• Each year the funds underwrite projects valued at almost EUR 3 million.

Promotion funds

• Regional council

• Steering committee

• Expert working

groups

• Regional conference

• Secretariat

Regional conference covers the main topics of priority relevant to the region, provides stimuli for regional

cooperation

Federations, politics, tourism and economic promotion agencies and professional bodies are directly involved in the cooperation.

Regional council

highest decision-making body

Secretariat supports the steering committee, manages the projects , public relations work regional marketing, representing the Metropolitan Region also develops concepts and analyses relating to the future

expert working groups

Steering committee

coordinates and controls the participating bodies, institutions and cooperation networks

Responsible bodies

Expert working groups

• Transportation

• Education

• Ecological Affairs

• Settlement developement

• Economy

• Tourism

• Climate Protection

• GEFIS - Finding industrial and commercial sites

• Lower Elbe Maritime Landscape (Competitiveness, quality of life)

• Changing attitudes to land use (Housing development)

• KLIMZUG-NORD (Climate protection)

• Park and ride concept (public services)

Lead projects

Joined development of industrial sites

• GEFIS: industrial and commercial site portal

• Survey on main sectors and their future needs for industrial sites

• Recommendations for the administration

• Guidelines for cooperation

Maritime Region Lower Elbe

• Supporting regional Tourism by co-financing project-management, infrastructure and maritime heritage

Lower Elbe Maritime Landscape

• sets out to raise awareness about “land” as a resource amongst municipalities, politicians, ownerbuilders, building financiers, architects, planners and developers.

• The project’s job is to work out solutions for sustainable use of land in housing development.

Changing attitudes to land use

• applied climate change research in the Hamburg Metropolitan Region.

• Effects of climate change on town and country areas are researched and recommendations worked out for adaptation.

• The goal is to produce an action plan for the metropolitan region up to the year 2050.

KLIMZUG-NORD

Park and ride concept

• 270.000 inbound; 70.000 outboundcommuters

• 184 park and ride facilities

• 63 have an average utilization of more than 90%. 40 more than 100%.

Economic Promotion Aagency Council

Sectors

Hamburg Metropolitan Region focuses on a policy of innovation in their core economic sectors

Economy, Science and Politics cooperate for this purpose

Engineering

Chemicals

Port and Logistics

Media and IT

Food Indurstry

Life Sciences

Aerospace

Maritime economy

Renewable Energies

Tourism

Employees

Cooperation of cluster Initiatives

Thank you for your attention!

Marion KöhlerSecretariat of the Hamburg Metropolitan Region

Press and public relations+49 (40)42841-2604

presse@metropolregion.hamburg.dewww.english.metropolregion.hamburg.de