Partners
REURIS partners:
- PP1 (LP) - Central Mining Institute, Katowice, Poland - Leader Partner,
- PP2 - City of Katowice, Poland,
- PP3 - City of Bydgoszcz, Poland,
- PP4 - City of Brno, Czech Republic,
- PP5 - Urban Planning and Development Institute of the City of Pilsen, Czech Republic,
- PP6 - Municipality of Stuttgart, Office of Urban Planning and Urban Development, Germany,
- PP7 - Green Belt Leipzig c/o Aufbauwerk Region Leipzig GmbH, Germany,
- PP8 - University of Leipzig, Germany.
In each partner's city there exist urban river spaces needing revitalisation. Social expectations for solving those problems is a common issue for all partners.
In all cities, the current state of ineffective use of river spaces stems from the following categories of barriers: scientific, informational, social, political, legislative, economic.
Details of those barriers differ across partners, however their background is common:
• past irregularities stemming from a wrong paradigm of water and urban space management
• ineffective use of informational and social potential for changing the state of affairs
Creation of a common approach for managing urban river spaces, advocated by REURIS, is in fact a step toward fuller recognition and removal of existing barriers.
Regardless of the specificity of cities, their rivers and the nature of obstacles which have lead to ineffective use of river spaces, each partner is interested in:
• improvement of public access to river channel
• emergence of recreational space along the river
• improvement of natural habitats in river corridor
• elaboration of relevant consensus methods
• creation of procedures for co-operative planning of urban river space
• implementation or at least designing pilot investments
• increase of local communities' interest in quality of urban river space
• creation of a holistic approach to the entire process of planning, designing and realisation of revitalisation undertakings
Crucial for most partners are also:
- elaborating procedures for external financing of activities,
- planning of river corridor, functioning as the city's green axis,
- increasing of flood protection,
- water tourism,
- stormwater management,
- cultural heritage,
- paths for pedestrians and cyclists.