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Introduction<br />
The following report is an attempt to summarise a two-year long co-operation of First<br />
Division regions i.e. medium-sized regions, striving to encourage their competitiveness<br />
against stronger national “partners”, through adopting an appropriate strategy of<br />
development. The report is an element of a larger work of interregional character<br />
(Common Report) dealing with the execution of strategic development projects within<br />
the territory of <strong>Defris</strong> partner states. The form of a Partner report has been engaged<br />
in order to facilitate a proper depiction of final results of analytic and planning efforts,<br />
made within selected fields of interest, on a more detailed i.e. regional and local level.<br />
The report is inevitably fed with the information obtained during the execution of<br />
previous work packages. Both WP1 and WP2 reports provided the participants of the<br />
project with vital information on characteristics of particular regions dissecting their<br />
socio-economic background which conditions their further development. The<br />
information gathered in this way proved invaluable in the process of selecting future<br />
key projects.<br />
The <strong>Regional</strong> Authority of Kujawsko-Pomorskie Voivodship put forward three strategic<br />
projects of development during the implementation process of WP3 (the total number<br />
of projects by <strong>Defris</strong> partners amounts to 15). The function of these projects within<br />
<strong>Defris</strong> is of dual character; they have the role of, so called, voivodship development<br />
zones (the growth poles), as well as, a supporting one e.g. activating the neighbouring<br />
or peripheral areas with a significant socio-economic potential.<br />
The selected projects are:<br />
1. Bydgoszcz-Toruń Metroplitan Area as the development zone<br />
2. The conception of the economic development of the Noteć River Valley<br />
3. Shaping the function of Włocławek as a regional centre<br />
The conclusions concerning the execution of strategic projects that are suggested in<br />
the report present in great detail the planning process, the adopted methodology and<br />
analyses of selected development aspects including, among others, the areas of<br />
transport, communications, services, entrepreneurship, tourism and social issues.<br />
Furthermore, in drive to achieve an improved international co-operation resulting in<br />
measurable effects, the subject areas were narrowed down to merely project<br />
activities. Thus, each one of the above-mentioned projects reflects one or two (in case<br />
of BTMA <strong>–</strong> Bydgoszcz Toruń Metropolitan Area) activities, raised also by those partners<br />
from other regions who remain interested in these issues. For more information on<br />
this subject refer to chapter “Transnationality”.<br />
The lay-out of the Partner report reflects the requirements imposed on all partners in<br />
the project. Its contents is supplemented with elaborations in the form of graphic<br />
attachments and information formulas which are the original form of information about<br />
the implemented strategic development projects.<br />
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