Tartu, Rezekne, Pskov: Green Management for Urban Development & Planning in EE-LV-RU Border Capitals
Acronym: GreenMan
Contract Number: ESTLATRUS/2.1/ELRI-177/2011/20
Beneficiary: NGO "Lake Peipsi Project, Pskov"
Beneficiary Address: NGO "Lake Peipsi Project, Pskov"
Country: Russia
Region: Pskov Region
Project Location: Pskov Region, Pskov Region, South Estonia, South Estonia, South Estonia, Latgale Region, Latgale Region, Latgale Region, Latgale Region
Start Date: 01.05.2012
Project Duration: 24 months
Grant Amount: 1.753.375,30 €
Percentage Of Total Eligible Action Costs: 90%
Summary: Project addresses cross border dimension of sustainable management of green areas (GA) in most populated cities in EE-LV-RU border area: Tartu, Rezekne, Pskov. GA are green landscapes, including natural and artificial ones, inside cities. It’s an integral part of urban districts playing a vital role in preservation of natural environment and providing daily communication between human and nature. The overall objective is to make the cities in EE-LV-RU border area more green and attractive place for both their inhabitants and visitors as a result of effective and consistent "green management" policies. One of the most crucial factors to make "wider EE-LV-RU border area more attractive place for its inhabitants" is sufficient and attractive green coverage in the cities. Green areas are the only way for many people, especially for children, elderly people, people with impaired mobility to experience nature, and the project is happy to contribute to this objective. Specific objectives: 1. To boost the effectiveness of management system of urban green areas in Tartu, Rezekne and Pskov as biggest cities in Estonia-Latvia-Russia border area, on the base of practical, dynamic and sustainable cooperation between municipal, academic and non-governmental actors. 2. To create new large-scale and important green areas and to restore the existing ones in Tartu, Rezekne and Pskov as well as to develop appropriate technical documentation and strategic visions for future urban green territories. 3. To contribute to the joint vision and share experiences and to facilitate networking between urban actors dealing with and involved in urban green management in Estonia-Latvia-Russia border area, hence to substantially increase the effectiveness of local measures and to establish lasting cross-border cooperative platform im the long run. The project has 2-side cross-border impact. It substantially invests in urban green areas of the biggest cities of EE-LV-RU border area, hence improving environment status of the whole area, making urban ecosystems more sustainable and, to the broader extent, directly contributing to specific objective of the Programme. On the other hand, the only way to effectively and efficiently implement such kind of project is territorial cooperation approach when different and remote local actors can get together to learn from each other considering local problems in more general extent. Within the project the inventory of urban green will be carried out, urban green management systems will be prepared, not less than 15 ha of urban green areas will be restored and planning documents for future GA will be developed, a comprehensive capacity building programme will be introduced for target groups – urban green management actors.
Project homepage: greenmanproject.org/
Measure name: Joint actions aimed at protection of environment and natural resources
Measure: 2.1
Involved partners:
- NGO "Lake Peipsi Project, Pskov", Ya.Fabritsiusa 2a, of. 18, 180017 Pskov, Russia
- Administration of Pskov City / Department of Urban Services, Oktyabrsky 26, Pskov, Russia
- Pskov State Pedagogical University, Lenina sq.2, Pskov, Russia
- Peipsi Center for Transboundary Cooperation, Puiestee 71A, Tartu, 51009
- Tartu City Government, Raekoda, Tartu linn, Tartu Maakond, 50089
- Estonian University of Life Sciences, Kreuzwaldi 1, Tartu 51014, Estonia
- Latvian office of Euroregion "Country of lakes", Brivibas 13, Kraslava, LV 5601
- Rezekne City Council, Atbrīvošanas aleja 93, Rēzekne, LV 4601, Latvia
- Rezekne Local Municipality, Atbrīvošanas aleja 95, Rēzekne, LV 4601, Latvia
- Daugavpils University, Vienības str. 13, Daugavpils
Additional information:
- Portfolio_177.pdf (pdf) 336.75 KB
- Press-release_People_Acknowledgement_OV.pdf (pdf) 129.3 KB
- Letter_of_Award.pdf (pdf) 1.19 MB
- Result Sheet (pdf) 1.46 MB