URBAN II

This article deals with the second city funding program of the EU. For further meanings, see Urban (disambiguation).

URBAN II is an EU funding program (community initiative). After the first URBAN program (also URBAN I) for the funding period 1994–1999, it was adopted as Urban II in the period 2000–2006. It is intended to improve inner cities and their urban situation with non-structural measures. It is used to promote cities with over 20,000 inhabitants that have problems with high unemployment , crime or pollution .

Not only investment measures are funded, but also institutions for the education and qualification of people. Neighborhood management initiatives are also supported . The exchange between the actors in the participating cities is to be promoted in congresses and workshops. In Germany , 12 cities take part in the program.

literature

• Ariane Sept: Urbanistica in Movimento - Italian town planning and the European URBAN program . ISR workbook 72, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-7983-2087-1 .

Web links

• Homepage of URBAN II
• European Commission: Partnership with Cities - The URBAN Community Initiative (PDF; 2.8 MB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The detailed basis for the community initiatives can be found in Regulation 1260/1999 / EC and in specific communications from the Commission.
2. ↑ OJ. 2000 C 141/8.