General information
The neighbourhoods in the largest metropolitan area in the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia, the Ruhr metropolis, face a particular challenge in terms of climate-friendly transformation: growing or shrinking residential areas, workers' housing settlements, listed housing sttlements, and neighbourhoods with a building stock dating mainly from the 1950s and 1960s. In order for the transition to lower-carbon or carbon-neutral residential areas to succeed, different methods of integrated energy-efficient neighbourhood development must be brought together, and a combined strategy of urban development and housing market measures is needed. With the Prima.Klima.Ruhrmetroploe project, tailor-made measaures can be tested and successfully implemented.
Target values
- Economical
- Ecological
- Social
Content focus
- Urban / neighbourhood development
- Climate adaptation
Innovation type
- Ecological
- Economical
- Social
- Technical
- Regulatory
Funding
- Public, federal state
Cooperation
Type of co-creation
The project is designed collaboratively. For example, an organisation or cooperative network shares decision-making and enables innovation by embedding co-creation in organisational activities and management structures so that the process is also designed collaboratively.
Society involvement
Information opportunities are offered to organised civil society and/or local societey.
Continuation of the project
- The project will hopefully be self-sustaining once completed
- The project will continue to be financed by public funds
Constellation of actors
Svientific involvements
- ILS (Research Institute for Regional and Urban Development)
Political actors
Ministry for Regional Identity, Communities, Building, and Digitalization of the State of Northrhine-Westphalia
Actors in administration
- City of Gelsenkirchen
Participating municipalities:
- City of Bottrop
- City of Duisburg
- City of Essen
- City of Hagen
- City of Lünen
- City of Oberhausen
- City of Xanten
Organization and decision-making
Constellation of actors in daily project work
The Ministry of Home Affairs, Local Government, Building, and Digitalization of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia is the project initiator and funding provider, while the city of Gelsenkirchen provides support in strategic and organizational matters as the lead municipality. The redevelopment and communications management team is active within the eight participating municipalities and is responsible for implementing municipality-specific redevelopment goals with communications support in the respective neighbourhoods.
Project management
The Ministry of Home Affairs, Local Government, Building, and Digitalization of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia is the project initiator and funding provider and is supported by the city of Gelsenkirchen as the lead municipality in the intermunicipal area of the project.
Agreements and decisions
The Ministry of Home Affairs, Local Government, Building, and Digitalization of North Rhine-Westphalia, together with the lead municipality, makes strategic and organizational decisions that are relevant to all eight participating municipalities. Decisions on measures and areas of action are made in the respective neighborhoods by the participating municipalities themselves.
Result and effect
Results and impacts in terms of affordability and other ecological and social target values
- To develop experimental energy districts and design model, tranferable implementation processes
- To create up to 8 energy districts as models for the region with different themes, for example:
- CO₂-neutral building stock
- municipal heat supply
- use of renewable energy sources
- climate adaption of public spaces
Consideration of the EU taxonomy and ESG criteria
The objectives and requirements of the EU taxonomy must be taken into account when finding solutions.
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