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Integra Sites Partners:
The priorities of the participating cities concerning urban regeneration are slightly different: Cologne’s first priority is to support an active supply policy of former industrial sites to investors and developers.
The City of Katowice is interested in prioritising sites concerning their revitalisation and remediation, in order to achieve this aim relevant tools have to be found to facilitate the process management of returning contaminated sites in the city centre into sites with new functions; Katowice will be able to benefit from the experiences of Cologne and Lille Métropole – both more advanced in this field.
Lille Métropole, in charge of the urban renewal policy and the economic development on its territory, has adopted in March 2003 a framework document launching an in-depth examination of the vocation of 29 vacant sites (most of them being former industrial ones, located in the urban area). This study, to be completed before end of 2004, at the beginning of the INTEGRA Sites project, is the first step towards a committed strategy of "reconquest" of all the available space, and towards a proposal to the firms providing an attractive "package" when setting up their firms on the metropolitan territory.
The Institute for Ecology of Industrial Areas (IETU) is a research and development unit acting under the Polish Ministry of Environment. The Institute was established in 1972 as a Katowice Branch of the Institute of Environmental Protection with the status of Environmental Protection Centre. IETU has been functioning as an independent organisation under its present name since 1992. The goal of the scientific and research activities of the Institute is to develop the scientific basis for policies and strategies aimed at sustainable development of the environment of urbanised and industrialised areas.