Cooperation Across Borders in Research and Development

Within the framework of the EU-project “New Industrial Culture: Cooperation Across Borders in Research and Development,” the institute works in the fields of urban retrofitting and development of industrial wastelands in close connection with communities, entrepreneurs and universities of the border region. Within the project, the team of the Institute for New Industrial Culture (L. Scharnholz (project manager), F. Breipohl, J. Rusinowska-Trojca, K. Schulze, N. Wichote) is conducting research in 25 to 30 industrial sites and housing projects in Germany and Poland. The ecological, economic and cultural revitalization of selected sites of the German-Polish border region represents the central theme component of the institute’s work. The institute analyzes exemplary sites, develops models of funding for reactivating former industrial buildings and indicates means of process control in order to monitor corresponding projects. The results of the research project will be presented to the public in form of a handbook.

Management: Prof. Markus Otto, Prof. Karl Plastrotmann, Dr. Lars Scharnholz (project manager)
Period: 2005–2007
Organization: INIK e. V.
Topics: Development of industrial wastelands, strategic planning, new industrial culture, post-use strategies, structures of housing projects

Dieses Projekt wird unterstützt von der Europäischen Union im Rahmen der Gemeinschaftsinitiative INTERREG III A

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