The cities met with the purpose of learning from each other and to develop new ideas within business policy, urban planning, socio-economic restructuring and other aspects of urban restructuring - and to develop recommendations for local strategies, national and Eu regional policies.

MECIBS is prooud that a project off-spring is the establishment of Baltic Sea Solutions. The aim of Baltic Sea Solutions is to develop new and innovative approaches to sustainable development for peripheral regions in the Baltic Sea Region - approaches based on our local assets they be human, natural, geographical or economic.

Thus, several cities and researchers took the MECIBS recommendations into its next and vital phase - implementing concrete cross-border actions for future development and synergies among cities in the Baltic Sea region.

www.baltic-sea-solutions.com

* Restructuring Medium Sized Cities. Lessons from the Baltic Sea Region (final report) cover, part 1, part 2.

* Profiles of medium sized cities in the Baltics Sea Region

MECIBS in brief (10 folders):

* Policy options and recomendations   

Latvian

Estonian

Russian

Polish 

* Cities of the Baltic Sea Region at a glance

* Socio-economic regeneration

* Regional enlargement

* Urban planning for transformation

* Business and development strategies

* City branding

* Cultural policy and urban development

* Public participation in urban planning and strategies

* Sustainable development

* Regional impacts of economic integration

Other publications:

*  Business clusters in spatial planning. Three Danish case studies. Danish Centre for Forest, Landscape and Planning, Frederiksberg.

*  Kommuners og pendlingsregioners sårbarhed overfor outsourcing (in Danish). Danish Centre for Forest, Landscape and Planning, Frederiksberg.

*  Cities of the Baltic Sea Region - Development Trends at the Turn of the Millenium to be ordered from www.nordregio.se