2. Contend
Background
Puzzle
Where is the Femernbelt Region?
What is the Femernbelt Region?
How does it matter?
One problem
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3. Signing of bilateral treaty regarding the Femernbelt Link in 2008:
German Minister of Transport, Wolfgang Tiefensee and the
Danish Minister of Transport, Carina Christensen
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5. 2 overlapping projects
The common cross-border Femernbelt Region
The traffic axis Hamburg – Copenhagen/Malmö
incl. the permanent Femernbelt link
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6. Peripheral areas both sides the Femern Belt between HH & CPH/M
★ the fear: becoming a transit region only
★ the target: becoming a growing destination-region
by joining into a common cross-border region &
by profiting from the future Femernbelt traffic axis
(bringing former periphery into a central position)
★ the challenge: building this new common region and
achieving cross-border regional cohesion
Hamburg Transit-
Region Copenhage
region n& Malmö
in-between
Femernbelt
Hamburg Copenhage
Region
Region (INTERREG n& Malmö
programme
area)
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7. The new region – centre of the axis
2020
Hamburg Copenhage
n& Malmö
Central Europe Scandinavia
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9. Illustration: Vilhelm Pedersen (1820-1859),
fra H.C. Andersens "Eventyr og historier". Jubilæumsudgave for danske børn 1905.
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10. The new cross-border region
A socially constructed region
A new type of region
Only few common denominators
The region still remains abstract
(many words but not much matter)
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11. Basic assumption
How to foster such a region and make it manifest?
It needs:
Cross-border cohesion
Tangibility
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12. Question
How do the regions key-actors
operate and co-operate
in order to achieve
cross-border cohesion and
tangibility for the new region?
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13. What region are we talking about?
WHAT and WHERE
is the Femernbelt Region,
… and how does it matter?
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14. Question 1: The territory of the region
SMALL Femernbelt Region (INTERREG programme area)
…. a GREATER Femernbelt Region
(incl. Hamburg area & Copenhagen/Malmö area)
… or even larger? (incl. South Sweden & North Germany)
WHERE is the Femernbelt Region?
Hamburg Femernbelt
Region Copenhage
Region
(INTERREG n & Malmö
programme
area)
Greater Femernbelt Region
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15. … furthermore: overlapping regions
STRIN
G Femernbelt Region Øresundregion
INTERREG
F
e
m e
Hamburg
Copenhage
Region e l
n & Malmö
r t
n
Schleswig-Holstein b Zealand Skåne
… furthermore South Baltic programme area and Baltic Sea Region
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16. Question 2: The kind of region
Territorial region is problematic,
therefore Region defined by function
Spaces of flow
Network region
How tangible is a functional region?
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17. Focus of my research study:
The SMALL Femernbelt Region:
a region in-between
the metropolitan areas
a region mainly based
on functions
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18. WHAT and WHERE
is the Femernbelt Region,
… and how does it matter?
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19. Where is the key-actors focus?
One term applied to a variety of different concepts
courses confusion: one does not know what is meant
Term itself becomes
diffuse and obscure
devaluated
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22. Thank you for your attention.
Dirk Keil, PhD-Fellow
Roskilde University,
Institute for Society and Globalisation
dirk@ruc.dk
Presentation – BeltScience, November 2011
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