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The RFO Partners selected four Cooperation Themes which represent the guidelines for the SP Lead Partners in drafting their project.
The project proposal must be consistent with the topics and show a development perspective or innovation regarding the ESDP policies, in order to obtain a balanced and sustainable development of the European territory.

Progresdec has focused on the following topics:

  1. LANDSCAPE
  2. POLYCENTRISM
  3. URBAN REGENERATION
  4. URBAN/RURAL AREAS

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TOPIC TITLES

ESDP REFERENCE

INSTRUMENTS AND RELATED EXPERIENCES

1

Policies and instruments
for landscape management
and sustainable development

3.3.3, 3.3.4, 3.4.1, 3.4.2, 3.4.4,

Plans and innovative and integrated landscape
management tools.
Nature reserve management plans.
Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) tools

2

Policies and instruments
for developing polycentrism
in large area systems
 

3.2.2,  3.3.2

Large area planning tools.
Territorial marketing tools.
Procedures and techniques for the set up of territorial
networks at regional and sub-regional level.

3

Policies and instruments
for urban renewal and
rehabilitation
 

3.2.3, 3.2.4,

Urban renewal tools.
Techniques and procedures for improving urban quality
in settlement areas.

4

Policies and instruments
to rebalance the
imbalances between urban
areas and non-urban,
periurban and rural areas

2.1.3,  2.2.1,  2.2.2, 2.2.3

Plans and tools for a development plan of periurban areas and rural spaces and for a re-definition of the
relationship between cities and the rural spaces. Tools and policies to revitalize and support rural or
scarcely inhabited spaces.