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Report ESPON ACTAREA:Thinking and planning in areas of territorial cooperation Implementation of the Swiss Spatial Strategy and Atlas of Swiss Action Areas CHILLA, Tobias, et al. & ESPON EGTC Abstract Combining diverse material gathered from the analysis of the Swiss policy context and the exploration of the 12 Swiss AAs, this separate report is aimed at providing a comprehensive view on the Swiss experience with soft territorial cooperation. Chapter 2 introduces the policy context relevant for the analysis of the Swiss AAs. Chapter 3 presents the different supra-regional collaborations taking place on Action Area level, framing them in their territorial context, and proposes an analytical grid to analysing them. Chapter 4 synthetises results obtained from the analysis of the 12 Swiss AAs, classifying them based on their maturity of cooperation and summarises policy options as expressed by field actors. Chapter 5 is set up as an Atlas, offering in-depth presentation of the 12 Swiss AAs. Reference CHILLA, Tobias, et al. & ESPON EGTC. ESPON ACTAREA:Thinking and planning in areas of territorial cooperation Implementation of the Swiss Spatial Strategy and Atlas of Swiss Action Areas. Luxembourg : ESPON EGTC, 2017, 167 p. Available at: http://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:103275 Disclaimer: layout of this document may differ from the published version. 1 / 1 This targeted analysis is conducted within the framework of the ESPON 2020 Cooperation Programme, partly financed by the European Regional Development Fund. The ESPON EGTC is the Single Beneficiary of the ESPON 2020 Cooperation Programme. The Single Operation within the programme is implemented by the ESPON EGTC and co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund, the EU Member States and the Partner States, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland. This delivery does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the members of the ESPON 2020 Monitoring Committee. Authors Erik Gløersen, Nathalie Wergles, Clément Corbineau and Sebastian Hans, Spatial Foresight (Luxembourg) Tobias Chilla and Franziska Sielker, Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (Germany) Jacques Félix Michelet and Lauranne Jacob, University of Geneva, Hub of Environmental Governance and Territorial Development (GEDT) (Switzerland)) Advisory Group Project Support Team: ESPON EGTC: Sandra di Biaggio Acknowledgements The authors would like to thank to Steering group composed of the Swiss Federal Office for Spatial Development (ARE), the German Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure and the International Spatial Development Commission "Bodensee” (Lake Constance) for the stimulating dialogue throughout the duration of the project. Stakeholders of case study areas and survey respondents have also provided precious inputs, without which the present report could not have been produced. Information on ESPON and its projects can be found on www.espon.eu. The web site provides the possibility to download and examine the most recent documents produced by finalised and ongoing ESPON projects. This delivery exists only in an electronic version. © ESPON, 2017 Printing, reproduction or quotation is authorised provided the source is acknowledged and a copy is forwarded to the ESPON EGTC in Luxembourg. Contact: [email protected] a ESPON Actarea Thinking and planning in areas of territorial cooperation Implementation of the Swiss Spatial Strategy and Atlas of Swiss Action Areas Table of contents 1 ESPON ACTAREA: general perspectives from the project .............................................. 1 2 Swiss Action Areas: focusing the research’s context ........................................................ 2 2.1 Policy context for Swiss Action Areas ............................................................................... 2 2.2 Issues for analysing Swiss Action Areas ........................................................................... 5 2.2.1 Scale matters: difference between functional and supra-regional? .......................... 5 2.2.2 Action Areas: an insufficiently known notion? ........................................................... 6 2.2.3 Limited current collaboration initiatives at the level of Action Areas? ....................... 7 2.2.4 Cross-border initiatives: an advantage for collaboration in AAs? ............................. 7 3 Framing the analysis of Swiss Action Areas ................................................................... 13 3.1 Most prominent features of the Swiss AAs ..................................................................... 13 3.2 Collaboration issues and perspectives according to geographical context .................... 15 3.2.1 Collaborations in metropolitan areas ...................................................................... 15 3.2.2 Collaborations in small and medium-sized town networks ..................................... 15 3.2.3 Collaborations in Alpine areas ................................................................................ 16 3.3 Analytical framework for exploring Swiss AAs ................................................................ 17 3.3.1 For all 12 Swiss AAs ............................................................................................... 17 3.3.2 Deeper understanding for a selection of AAs ......................................................... 18 4 Learnings from investigation on the Swiss AAs .............................................................. 20 4.1 Current practices in supra-regional collaboration............................................................ 20 4.2 A typology based on cooperation structures makes sense ............................................. 21 4.2.1 Category 1: AAs with tailor-made cooperation structure ........................................ 21 4.2.2 Category 2: AAs with a variety of pre-existing collaboration structures .................. 22 4.2.3 Category 3: AAs where supra-regional collaboration must be developed .............. 23 4.3 Policy options .................................................................................................................. 24 4.3.1 Improve communication on AAs ............................................................................. 24 4.3.2 Support multi-scalar perspective for AAs ................................................................ 25 4.3.3 Provide stable financing of AA facilitation ............................................................... 25 4.3.4 Promote the AA logic among public authorities and sectoral actors ....................... 26 4.4 Convergence of learnings on soft territorial cooperation ................................................ 27 5 Atlas of Swiss Action Areas ............................................................................................. 29 5.1 Metropolitan Action Area Zurich ...................................................................................... 29 5.2 Trinational Metropolitan Action Area Basel ..................................................................... 38 5.3 Lake Geneva Metropolitan Action Area .......................................................................... 50 5.4 Swiss Capital Region Action Area ................................................................................... 64 5.5 Lucerne Action Area ........................................................................................................ 75 5.6 Città Ticino Action Area ................................................................................................... 83 5.7 Jura Massif Action Area .................................................................................................. 88 5.8 Aareland Action Area .................................................................................................... 100 5.9 Northeast Switzerland Action Area................................................................................ 110 5.10 Gotthard Action Area ..................................................................................................... 121 5.11 Western Alps Action Area ............................................................................................. 132 5.12 Eastern Alps Action Area .............................................................................................. 139 ESPON 2020 ii 6 Annexes ......................................................................................................................... 147 6.1 Mapshots creation process ........................................................................................... 147 6.2 Dimensions and characteristics of soft territorial cooperation instances ...................... 151 6.3 Institutional maps creation process ............................................................................... 153 7 References .................................................................................................................... 155 7.1 Metropolitan Action Area Zurich .................................................................................... 155 7.2 Trinational Metropolitan Action Area Basel ................................................................... 155 7.3 Lake Geneva Metropolitan Action Area ........................................................................ 155 7.4 Swiss Capital Region Action Area ................................................................................. 155 7.5 Lucerne Action Area .....................................................................................................