COMMIN -
Promoting Spatial Development by creating COMon MINdscapes, BSR
Interreg III B
COMMIN Project
includes 28 partners from 11 countries – this is the consortium of
universities, public and administrative establishments, ministries
and local governments, organizations and companies from Byelorussia,
Germany, Dania, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Russia, Finland,
Sweden, and Estonia.
COMMIN Project (COMmon MINdscapes) creates common understanding of
spatial development and spatial planning in the Baltic Sea Region.
It establishes a basis for future EU and national policies and
documents as well as practical cooperation and joint implementation
concerning transnational spatial development around the Baltic Sea.
The project makes knowledge available, creates the base for equal
communication, qualifies practitioners, and
organises
the interchange of experiences made within the field of spatial
development. COMmon MINdscapes – derived form ‘mind’ and ‘landscape’
– stands common research approaches and mutual understanding: common
understanding of spatial planning terminology in all participating
countries.
Aims of COMMIN project:
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Create an opportunity of the effective
transnational partners communication
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Create conditions of further international
projects and investments |
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Increase professionalism |
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Make an exchange of experience and results of
the project accessible to online use |
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Exchange the best practice and promote
innovational approaches |
Leontief Centre
implements tree Project working
packages:
1. Web Based Portal on Spatial Development in the
Baltic Sea Region
Main COMMIN instrument is an opened and permanently updated Internet
portal stimulating international exchange of knowledge among all
involved into the spatial planning and development in the Baltic Sea
Region. COMMIN web based portal was designed as a
dialogue platform. Platform core is a constantly enlarging glossary
on spatial planning terminology. The database on main spatial terms
in English language will be created on the web site: the most
important terms applied in 11 participating countries will be
harmonized and then presented through common English terms based on
common understanding and generally adopted definitions.
2. Advanced
Training Network on Spatial Planning and Regional Development in the
BSR
In the framework of the Project the specialized trainings on spatial
planning and regional development in the Baltic Sea Region being
organizing: eight three-days seminars and two summer schools.
3. Transnational
Exchange of Innovative Approaches of Spatial Development in the
Baltic Sea Region
Analysis of current and completed Interreg Projects will provide
generalization of experience and elaboration of recommendations for
future cross-border projects and policies. Thematic trainings on
Transeuropean Transport Networks (TEN-T), Integrated Costal Zone
Management (ICZM) will combine best practice and knowledge
accumulated under these directions.
COMMIN flyer
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