• Lead partner: Lombardy Region, Environment Energy and Grids Directorate (IT)
• City of Graz (AT)
• Regionalmanagement Graz & Graz Surrounding (AT)
• Regional Council of Rhône Alpes, Mountain, Tourism and Natural Regional Park Direction (FR)
• Grenoble Alpes Métropole, Department of Prospective & Territorial Strategy (FR)
• University Pierre Mendès, Town Planning Institute of Grenoble (FR)
• Urban Agency of the Grenoble Region (FR)
• Leibniz Universität Hannover, Chair for Regional Building and Urban Planning (DE)
• Allgäu GmbH – Economic Development and Tourism Management Agency (DE)
• Veneto Region, Urban and Landscape Planning Department (IT)
• Piedmont Region, Department for Strategic Programming, Spatial Policies and Housing, Unit for Spatial and Landscape Planning (IT)
• Anton Melik Geographical Institute, Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SLO)
• Regional Development Agency of Ljubljana Urban Region (SLO)
• City of Zurich, Urban Development and Foreign Affairs (FR)

Sectorial policies are inefficient to offset the relation among urban and rural areas and their development model due to the complexity to merge in an organic whole a lot of solutions which have been carried out to tackle the critical situation in terms of loss of competitiveness,landscape degradation,lack of water and soil quality,loss of biodiversity,territorial fragmentation and abandonment,intense use of the resources,quality of life decay. A balanced development can not be achieved with sectorial interventions but only by crossing the segmentation of the territorial policies.Therefore, Rurbance is developing cooperative and integrated governance models towards the implementaion of Joint Development Strategies that induce territorial requalification processes in order to hand back value to the economic,social,environmental and cultural heritage that constitutes the identity of the territories from the top to the bottom. As a result, rural/mountain and urban communities become “equal players” in an inclusive decision making process. Source: RURBANCE project summary

• Rural-urban partnership requires vital networks and processes)
• Cross-sectoral and integrated approaches are needed to slow down impacts in rural areas)

• urban-rural partnership
• governance
• territorial development
• policentric development
• peri-urban development

• Territorial cohesion through balanced social and economic development
• Improving urban - rural relationship and Alpine-perialpine relationship