Regional Intermediate Report Carinthia / Austria Test Areas Feldkirchen and Wolfsberg
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Work package 5 « Regional studies » : Regional intermediate report Carinthia / Austria Test areas Feldkirchen and Wolfsberg Eva Favry Birgit Janach Eva Karpf-Fortin 30 November 2005 Klagenfurt, Vienna WP5 REGIONAL INTERMEDIATE REPORT CARINTHIA 051130 1 Regional intermediate report Carinthia / Austria Table of content 1. Introduction ...................................................................................................4 1.1 PUSEMOR: A general overview ............................................................4 1.2 Workpackage 5 Regional Studies: Goals, objectives and activities ......5 2. Country profile...............................................................................................9 2.1 Territorial organisation ...........................................................................9 2.2 Spatial policies in Carinthia....................................................................9 2.3 Roles and responsibilities in public services........................................10 Transport..............................................................................................10 Public administration............................................................................10 Health care and care for elderly...........................................................11 Child care, education and culture ........................................................11 Telecommunication..............................................................................12 Every day needs ..................................................................................13 3. Regional and test areas profile ...................................................................14 3.1. Geographical situation .........................................................................14 Wolfsberg.............................................................................................14 Feldkirchen ..........................................................................................16 3.2. Demography and Human potential ......................................................17 3.3. Socio economic situation .....................................................................19 4. Public services in the test areas: Description, evaluation, problems, perspectives................................................................................................21 4.1. Methodology ........................................................................................21 4.2. General situation for public services....................................................21 Public Transport...................................................................................22 Public administration............................................................................23 Health care / care for elderly................................................................23 Child care, education and culture ........................................................24 Telecommunication..............................................................................25 Every day needs ..................................................................................25 WP5 REGIONAL INTERMEDIATE REPORT CARINTHIA 051130 2 4.3. Assessment of services in the test areas – current difficulties, worries and perspectives.........................................................................................26 Overview ..............................................................................................26 Thematic focus: transport ....................................................................32 Other services......................................................................................37 4.4. Future perspectives .............................................................................39 5. Best practices in the test area, specifics and conditions for transferability.41 6. Conclusion and next steps..........................................................................42 6.1 Regional level ......................................................................................42 6.2 Next steps on transnational level.........................................................42 List of important legal documents / policy documents .....................................44 List of literature ................................................................................................45 Annex: Best practice examples: ......................................................................46 WP5 REGIONAL INTERMEDIATE REPORT CARINTHIA 051130 3 1. Introduction Barbara Cernic Mali, Ueli Stalder 1.1 PUSEMOR: A general overview Project background In today's mobile society and economy, the provision with public services (or more precisely: with services of public interest) is a locational key factor. To- pographical features and frequently low population density mean that the public services in Alpine regions generally cover only a part of their costs. Market liberalisation and other factors threaten to reduce the availability of some services even further. New supply strategies are required to improve the quality of public services while reducing costs. The project “PUSEMOR” aims at developing sustainable strategies and inno- vative solutions for improving the provision of public services in sparsely populated mountain regions. This with the ambition to grade up these regions both as economic place and as place of residence. To reach the goals, the project has both an analytical / scientific and a stra- tegic / political dimension. The analysis aims at gathering existing knowledge from the various regions involved, combining it in a methodical way and ex- panding it in specific areas. The strategic dimension is concerned with the formulation of implementation- ready concepts and pilot projects to improve provision of public services in sparsely populated areas. Consequently, the main activities of PUSEMOR are: • Workpackage 5: Regional studies (analysing the current standard of pub- lic services and its development during the last years, analysing the key factors of economic, political/institutional and technological framework conditions, identification of good ideas and best practices to improve the provision of public services.) • Workpackage 6: Transnational comparison of the results of regional stud- ies and common inventory of best practices. • Workpackage 7a: Elaboration and development of innovative and effec- tive new strategies and pilot projects. • Workpackage 7b and 8: Elaboration of recommendations for several stakeholders (public authorities/ policy makers, regional and local NGOs, providers of public services, consultants in regional development etc. • Workpackage 4: Permanent publicity activities about project’s findings and results. For more information about PUSEMOR (Partners, activities, news) see www.pusemor.net (in 5 languages) WP5 REGIONAL INTERMEDIATE REPORT CARINTHIA 051130 4 1.2 Workpackage 5 Regional studies: Goals, objectives and activities The Workpackage 5 "Regional studies" aims at: • Clarifying the development and the current standard of public services in selected sparsely populated areas (1 - 3 test areas per participating re- gion); • Identifying the needs of different user groups in these areas; • Providing an inventory of exemplary new strategies i.e. "best practices" to improve basic provision in sparsely populated areas drawn up, includ- ing an examination of the key factors in economic, political/institutional and technological framework crucial for the implementation for the identi- fied best practices. Following the objectives stated, the Workpackage 5 has resulted in regional- specific statements on three issues, presented as three Outputs: • OUTPUT (1) Actual standard of public services and its development over the last years, including basic description and conditions of respective test areas • OUTPUT (2) Assessment by the users of the range of services, • OUTPUT (3) Detailed description of exemplary new strategies in the re- gions (inventory of „good ideas“), including and Outline of the relevant economic, political/institutional and technological framework This REGIONAL INTERMEDIATE REPORT (RIR) summarises findings of all three outputs for each of the total 9 regional teams 1. The Slovenian partners (BSC Kranj together with Barbara Cernic Mali from the Urban Planning Institute) were responsible for leading of this WP (elaborating a methodologies and a common, standardised instruments, as- sistance to the other partners in doing regional studies, first guidelines for in- terpretation). They were assisted by the SAB as technical lead partner of the whole project. 1 Italy: Regione Lombardia and GAL Appennino Genovese; Austria: Bundesland Tirol and Bundesland Kärnten; France: Region Franche-Comté; Germany: Regionalverband Südl. Oberrhein; Slovenia: Gorenjska Region; Switzerland: Suisse occidentale and Canton Ticino. Each of the regional teams defined one to four so called test areas for the studies. WP5 REGIONAL INTERMEDIATE REPORT CARINTHIA 051130 5 Output 1: Description of methodology and activities The aim of the Output 1 was to present basic characteristics of the individual areas. In order to provide adequate input for subsequent workpackages (i.e. transnational comparisons for WP6 and Strategies for WP7) a unified struc- ture of the Outpu1 reports was suggested. The slovenian partners, respon- sible for the technical lead of WP5 prepared a template. The template was then revised, based