The URMA-project promotes urban-rural partnerships as a tool to strengthen the potential for generation and transfer of innovation in European metropolitan areas and their surrounding hinterlands. The basis was laid during a preceding project, integrated in the action programme Pilot Project of Spatial Planning sponsored by the German Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development. ...
The general project objective is the harmonisation, at the level of the entire cross-border area, of economic, social, environmental and cultural policies, aiming at increasing economic, social and territorial cohesion and economic competitiveness.