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E-Content
FORTIMEDIA |
January 2004-
December 2005 |
The Fortimedia project is funded under the E-Content
European Programme, which aims at promoting the
use of the internet. The Fortimedia Project
support the development of European historic culture
and tourism by setting up and on line a military
heritage site.Fortimedia will propose to the public
a content of high added value on military heritage
and an exclusive gathering og geographical, historic,
educational and tourist information.
The platform will be composed on:
An encyclopedia ( with 3D reconstitutions and animation
of monuments on line)
An atlas
One historic page
One tourist information page by member cities that
vill participate at the project.
Additionally the project will be on line in several
languages sush as Dutch,English,French,German,Italien,Portugese
and Spanish. It vill also serve as an information
platform for specialists on the conservation of
monuments which will encourage
The programme includes 15 cities from the European
Union. The cities that are participating in this
project will have free access to the website and
will be able to update the events that are taking
place in the city.
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Total Cost of the Project
€ 2223,746
Commission Funding
€ 1,141,973 |
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In December 2005, Fortemedia will start being
marketed.New fortified sities will be allowed to
become members of the platform of Fortemedia. The
new members will need to pay an amount of money
in order to participate whereas pilot sites will
have free access. There are no financial
implications for the cities participating in this
project.
More information is available on www.fortemedia.com
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Interreg IIIC-
InterMETREX |
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METREX is the network of European Metropolitan
Regions and Areas. It is a network of politicians,officials
and their advisers, concerned with the European
Spatial planing and Development (ESPD) at the
metropolitan level. It is a network through which
key European strategic decision makers can share
their knowledge, experience and expertise.
The InterMETREX will offer practical benefits
to existing metropolitan authorities and to those
that are being set up. The partnership reflects
this range of interests. This project directly
assists the objective of Interreg IIIC to improve
the effectiveness of policies and instruments
for regional development and cohesion. Many partners
are recognizing the need for effective metropolitan
governance and other partners are interested in
setting up of this metropolitan governance. The
InterMETRIX project its led by Glasgow, it involves
41 partners and runs from 2003-2006 with a budget
of EUR 1.16m.
More information is available on:www.eurometrex.org
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Total Project Budget:
€ 1,424,234,40
Total Partner Budgetfor Nicosia:
€ 35,426,00
Nicosia Co-Financing through ERDF:
€ 17,713,00
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June 2003-
May 2006 |
The URBACT Initiative has three main Objectives:
To promote transnational exchange of information
amongst cities participating in the URBAN I, II,cities
participating in Urba Pilot projects, their partners
and new member-states cities with a population of
more than 20 000.
To draw lessons from the analysis of their experiences
and of the policies implemented locally and to propose
innoavtive approaches to those difficult issues.
To disseminate towards the actors in all Europeans
cities the experiences in those different areas,
the lessons learned and the resulting proposals
for approach.
Nicosia participates in the Partners 4 Action
Network, which is a thematic network on Public
Private Partnership (PPPs) led by the city of
Liverpool (UK), and provides an opportunity for
city to city exchange of information and best
practice, on how to attract and use private sector
investment to regenerate urban neighborhoods.
The specific objectives of the Network include:
Examination of the role that PPPs play in urban
and neighborhood renewal through the exchange of
experience between the networks cities.
Exploration and identification of good and bad practice
from which other cities can learn.
Production and dissemination of (transferable knowledge)
that can be used and adapted by other cities as
a framework to support private sector involvement
/ investment.
Participating cities include ten main partners
from old EU member states and three partners from
new EU member states including Nicosia. |
Total Project Budget:
€ 730,000
Over 40%
Funded by the EU
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Regional Development Fund): Objective 2 of Regional
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An extensive area of Nicosia Municipality
that runs along the buffer zone that currently
divides Nicosia has been designated as eligible
for projects to be funded under Priority 2 which
concerns »Integrated Urban Regenartion«, of the
Objective 2 Programme 2004-2006 for Cyprus.
The overall aim is the economic and social regeneration
of areas, which face serios structural problems,
in order to contribute to the stabilization of
the depopulation trend and to achieve greater
social and economic cohesion.
The specific objectives associated with Priority
2 »The Regeneration of Urban Areas in Decline:
Measure 1: Integrated Urban Regeneration« are
the following:
The improvement of the urban built environment and
cultural infrastructure
The provision of community facilities
The facilitation of entrepreneurship and innovation.
This Measure is expected to foster the regeneration
of the area through the creation of a more attractive
environment for entrepreneurs and the local population,
in order to increase the competitiveness of the
area through new activities that will upgrade
it. The increase of accsess of the residents to
social services wil be part of the main tools
of intervention of this Measure. Furthermore,
the promotion of cultural amenities will contribute
to the socio-economic upgrading of the area.
Within the context of the area schemes there
are a number of indicative activities that must
be implemented. Hese are:
Activity 1: Upgrading of the built environment
Activity 2: Socio-cultural infrastructure |
Total public expenditure
for Cyprus for Priority 2 (»Integrated Urban Regenartion«):
€ 16,820,414.
Expected funding for the implementation of projects
in the designated areas of Nicosia Municipality
according to preliminary estimates:
€ 13,000,000
€ 14,000,000
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Activity 3: Supporting Infrastructure for SMEs
Activity 4: Information Technology applications
for enhancement of planning and monitoring (Geographic
Information System).
The historic centre of Nicosia along with Kaimakli
and Palouriotissa, two of the oldest quarters
of the city, are the focus of the projects planned
for implementation under this Programme. The projects
and actions that will be funded concern Activity
1, Activity 2 and Activity 4 and they comprise
the conversation and rehabilitation and reuse
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The remit of the Nicosia Municipality European Affairs
Committee
Cyprus's accesion to the European union provides a
wide spectrum of possibilities for furthering and upgrading
the role and range of services that the Municipality
offers to its citizens.
The Committee of European Affairs was set up at the
beginning of 2002 and was assigned the significant role
of suggesting and promoting the realization of projects
and actions in the context of European policies.
The Committee's objectives have been set as follows:
To promote the improvement, upgrading and adjustment
of the role and functions of Nicosia Municipality and
local Administration in general, under the light of
policies and practices followed by cities and more specifically
capital cities in other member-states of the European
Union (E.U.).
To promote the understanding and implementation of
E.U. policies, programmes, initiatives est. Within the
Municipality.
To promote the participation of Nicosia in European
Network of cities and other relevant agencies.
To be informed about the availability of EU funds and
of the opportunities of participation in initiatives,
programmes or other EU networks, esspecially those that
promote bi-communal cooperation, so as to suggest the
authorization of appropriate action by the Municipal
Council.
To examine and promote issues relating to the development
of the capacity of the Municipality to effectively seize
opportunities offered by the European environment towards
an improvement of the services it delivers, the conditions leading
to the sustainable development of the city and the quality
of life in Nicosia.
To coordinate the Municipality's efforts to inform
citizens about the benefits that EU membership conveys,
thus promoting a pro-European mentality that will eventually
have a catalytic effect on the materialization of EU
policies at a local level.
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