- 1. the partnership in a nutshellReacting to individual demand
at short term is a common strat-egy of commercial development on
municipal level in moun-European Academy Bolzano/Bozentain regions
but also in the plain. A concerted, long term strat-Institute for
Regional Development and Local Development Agency egy developed in
cooperation with other municipalities, aimed TE!Location
ManagementLanghe Monferrato Roeroat using regional endogenous
potentials, is often missing. E DA 12 E TH0COMUNIS aims at
developing cooperative strategies for inter-SAV March 2 ce 8.-9.
onferenmunicipal Commercial Location Development (CLD) in moun-tain
areas. By raising awareness of the advantages of andRegional
development Vorarlberg lC BSC, Business Support Centre
Ltd.,enhancing intra-territorial cooperation, COMUNIS wants
toFinaovercome individualistic attempts of problem solution on the
Kranjlevel of single municipalities.bosch & partnerBosch &
Partner GmbH MnchenTo this end, COMUNIS is developing guidelines
for devis-ing and applying inter-municipal CLD-strategies adapted
to Swiss Association for Services the challenges, conditions and
potentials of the pilot regions to Regions and Communesin
particular and mountain regions in general. The projectCity of
Sonthofen will result in a transnational knowledge management and
es-tablish sustainable structures for managing CLD in
selectedCOMUNIS pilot regions.Ministry for the Environment,Canton
of ValaisLand and Sea Economic Development OfficeProject Duration:
July 2009 until June 2012lead partner contactthe pilot
regionsNathalie Stumm DE Inter-municipal CooperationUniversity of
Applied SciencesWestern Switzerland Valais for Strategic Steering
of SME-Institute Economics and TourismFR
LeiblachtalAlpsee-GrntenAToriented Location DevelopmentTechnoArk 3,
CH-3960 SierreTel.: +41 27 60 69 00 3CH LIGroes Walsertalin the
Alpine SpaceGorenjskaEmail: [email protected] Passeiertal
SIwww.comunis.euTarareMartigny-Sion-SierreClaire Delsuc, Florine
GoncetChamber of Commerce and Industryof Lyon Asti-AlessandriaPlace
de la Bourse, F-69289 LyonTel: +33 4 72 40 56 92Email:
[email protected] IT
2. the challenge how to confront it our pilot regionsIn Alpine
regions, adjacent municipalities strongly compete for COMUNIS aims
at developing cooperative strategies for inter- COMUNIS has started
the process of inter-municipal Com-economic development. Although
this is not an Alps-specific municipal Commercial Location
Development (CLD) in moun- mercial Location Development (CLD) in
the pilot regions. Theproblem, the Alpine topography creates
framework conditions tain areas. The development process typically
comprises theimplemented activities are as manifold as are the
frameworkdifferent than those prevailing in the lowland. Steep
landscape following elements:conditions and problem situations in
the pilot areas.and mountains, increased probability of natural
hazards, etc., Vorarlberg (AT): A Project and Location Association
has beenlimit the land available for development. This requires a
con-Context description Starting points: motivation, history,
development problemsset up that serves as an institutional
structure enabling munici-siderate joint approach to commercial and
industrial land palities to implement CLD-strategies and land
policy.development. AnalysisTarare (FR): Local authorities focus
their action on territorial Examining the situation and evaluating
the analysis results marketing and the implementation of a hosting
policy in order to enhance the economic attractiveness and
facilitate the es-Developmenttablishment of businesses.Devising
joint strategies and action concepts Alpsee-Grnten (DE): The
municipalities plan to install a ImplementationSpecial Purpose
Association that acts as an interlocutor for Setting up suitable
management structures, regulations etc. companies and enables
accurate, demand-oriented land management.Evaluation Passeier
Valley (IT): Existing inter-municipal cooperation Feedback and
strategy adaptation structures are optimized, especially regarding
commercial/in- dustrial vacancy and traffic management.the
guidelines giving municipalities a handGorenjska (SI): Two local
communities are working on joint development approaches and on
including ecologic elementsM. Wei (EURAC): Commercial site in the
Passeier Valley, ItalyIn order to support municipalities and
regions to go through into the development of commercial zones.In
times of decreasing municipal budgets, outmigration of this process
and to position themselves as a sustainable com-Asti (IT): It is
aimed at developing shared public / private poli-young and educated
people (brain drain), and repercussionsmercial location, COMUNIS
provides guidelines on CLD. Thecies for deploying new energy-saving
systems and at estab-of overall economic development not stopping
at municipal guidelines are structured along the above-mentioned
steps of lishing focus groups with businesses and
municipalities.borders, inter-municipal cooperation for commercial
develop-the development process. They will present various
approa-ment suggests itself as problem solution. ches and possible
activities, supported by practical examples. Martigny, Sion, Sierre
(CH): In the three towns of the Val- ais romand, stakeholders are
sensitized to and trained in in-Yet, municipalities abstain from
pooling financial and humanAs a practical handbook for actors on
the local and regional le- dustrial ecology in order to enhance a
sustainable economicresources for an inter-municipal approach to
strategically de-vel, the guidelines will describe:
development.veloping, using, and marketing land, and attracting
business- Options for action including measures of land use
manage-es. Instead of taking the initiative for long-term
development, ment, promotion and communication, and business
support,municipalities react at short term, which leaves them
little room suitable to the conditions in the various Alpine
regions;for manoeuvre. Methods and tools for implementing the
working steps from a first situation analysis to the establishment
of a manage- ment structure; Tools for comparing costs and benefits
and for assessing the environmental impacts. K. Schnthaler (Bosch
& Partner GmbH): Workshop discussion inTitle picture (Bosch):
Plant Blaichach of Robert Bosch GmbHAlpsee-Grnten, Germany