Oresund region

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Location of the Øresund region (2018)

The Sound region ( Danish : Øresundsregionen , Swedish : Sound regions ) is a European metropolitan region and extends on both sides of Öresunds transnational by Denmark and Sweden . The urban centers of the region are the Danish Copenhagen and the Swedish Malmö , which is why the term Copenhagen-Malmö Metropolitan Region is sometimes used.

Committee

From 1993 onwards, local and regional politicians held regular conferences in the Öresund Committee to remove obstacles to cross-border cooperation. On January 1, 2016, it was transformed into the Greater Copenhagen & Skåne Committee . On January 1, 2019, the Swedish Län Halland will be admitted to the committee. The then simply named Greater Copenhagen Committee will include a total of four regions and 85 municipalities.

The Executive Board currently (2018) consists of 18 members. It is chaired by Heino Knudsen , Chairman of the Zealand region , his deputy is Henrik Fritzon , chairman of the province of Scania .

Demarcation and population 2018

The Öresund region consists of the province of Skåne on the Swedish side and the capital region and the region of Zealand on the Danish side. 3.88 million people live here on an area of ​​around 21,000 km² (as of 2014), two thirds of them in Denmark and one third in Sweden.

Economy and Transport

The Oresund Bridge as seen from Sweden.
The population density on the Öresund (bottom left-center) is high by Scandinavian standards.

The Øresund region owes its existence to the completion of the Øresund link with the Øresund bridge and the Drogden tunnel , which has linked Skåne and Zealand since 2000 . This connection strengthens the growing together of the transnational metropolitan region . In addition to the bridge, a high-frequency ferry connection between Helsingborg and Helsingör also connects the two countries in the north.

The Øresund region is one of the most important economic regions in the Baltic Sea region . The region has the most business-friendly conditions in the world, according to a 2007 article in The Economist magazine . This is determined by the location (keyword “gateway to the Baltic Sea”), the good infrastructure ( Copenhagen International Airport , extensive road and rail network, many shipping routes), international communication (fluent English is a mandatory recruitment criterion for skilled workers), the good, soft location factors , the good educational institutions and the cluster structure.

For the concept of a connection between the metropolitan region of Öresund and the metropolitan region of Hamburg as part of the Vogelfluglinie , the fixed Fehmarnbelt link between the islands of Lolland and Fehmarn , which was decided in June 2007 by the governments of Germany , Schleswig-Holstein and Denmark, is still missing . In spring 2015, however, the Federal Court of Auditors and the German Bundestag's audit committee demanded that the State Treaty be renegotiated. The Transport Committee and the federal government rejected this request by return of post.

South of the Öresund Bridge, the Lillgrund offshore wind farm is also Sweden's largest offshore wind farm as of 2015 .

Science and Research

14 Sjælland og and Scanian universities and colleges established in 1997 the so-called Oresund University network : the universities of Copenhagen, Roskilde and Lund, Malmö högskola , Copenhagen Business School, Högskolan Kristianstad , Technical University of Denmark , Sveriges Lantbruksuniversitet / Alnarp , IT Universitetet , Kunstakademiets Arkitektskole , Det Informationsvidenskabelige Akademi , Den Kgl. Veterinær- og Landbohøjskole , Danmarks Pædagogiske Universitet and Danmarks Farmaceutiske Højskole . The network was given up in 2010, and the last joint projects ended in 2013.

In the Øresund region, clusters have mainly developed. These include:

1. “Medicon Valley”: Cluster for life sciences , focus on cancer and allergy research

2. "Öresund-IT-Region": Cluster for information and communication sciences , focus on nano- , micro-technology and software development

3. “Copenhagen Cleantech Cluster” for new environmental technologies , focus on wind , bioenergy , development of fuel cells , development of electric vehicles . See also European Spallation Source .

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anders Malling Beck: Greater Copenhagen vokser med endnu en svensk region TV 2 (Danish), November 27, 2018.
  2. ^ Mats Lindgren: The transnational metropolitan region Öresund on skandinavienmesse.de
  3. ↑ a b Cluster Copenhagen / Öresund Region ( Memento from 7 November 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Lena Gürtler: Cost Explosion: Dispute over the Fehmarnbelt Project NDR, March 16, 2015, accessed on November 27, 2018.

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