ACT4PPP - Transnational Action for Public Private Partnership

Many cities and regions in Europe are increasingly challenged by their responsibilities to provide public services and infrastructure, to offer social housing or to develop brownfield sites etc.. To increase their capacities and the efficiency of public actions they search for private partners for cooperation, joint actions and institutionalised public private partnerships (PPP). ACT4PPP will provide a platform for cities and regions from all over Central Europe to exchange experiences and know-how and assist them in applying more and better targeted public private cooperations.

Beyond that ACT4PPP will enable the project partners to develop specific strategies for the public private realization of their single public service or infrastructure as well as complex site developments. For this reason, the project outlines different kinds of cooperation of public authorities with private companies. PPP models for numerous measures in the public interest, which have not been analysed systematically, will be examined and summarised to general guidelines.

Keyfacts
Partnership -17 project partner from 7 countries working on 12 pilot projects
Duration - 3 years from October 2008 until September 2011
Project budget -3.8 Mio. €
Implementation - through the CENTRAL EUROPE programme co-financed by the ERDF

Goals
• further development and dissemination of suitable PPP models for specific issues and contexts;
• improvement of local and regional capacities, expertise, structures and framework conditions for implementing PPPs;
• increase of systematic and targeted application of PPP approaches in different fields of regional and urban development;
• use of EU Structural Funds or other financing resources for PPPs ;
• enhancement of private involvement in territorial and urban development processes.

Involved Partners
• Leadpartner:
Federals Association of the State and Urban Development Companies, Berlin (D)
Franziska Hellmer
Wallstraße 16 - 10179 Berlin, Germany
Tel. 0049.30.202 1585 18
Email: hellmer@bvleg.de

• Thematic Coordinator:
German Association for Housing, Urban and Spatial Development, Berlin (D)

• Financial Manager
State Development Corporation Thuringia, Erfurt (D)

• Further Project Partners:
Business and Innovation Centre Bratislava (SK)
City of Bedzin (PL)
City of Graz (AT)
City of Ostrava (CZ)
City of Poznan, Municipal Housing Stock Directorate (PL)
City of Sopot (PL)
EGS development company, Schwerin (D)
Hanseatic City of Rostock (D) 
Institute for Economic Research, Ljubljana (SI)
Local Development Agency Langhe Monferrato Roero, Asti (IT)
Marco Polo System geie (I)
RPG RE Management Ltd., Ostrava (CZ)
Technical University Graz (A)
WohnStadt Projekt- und Consulting Ltd.; Weimar (D)