Once upon a time there was a kingdom, the Trans in Form kingdom. Many brave knights had joined within the TiF kingdom to fight enemies like emigration, demographic change and the loss of workplaces. Together they wanted to make their town’s better places to live in. Last week the knights as well as the princes and princesses met in Krakow (Poland) to showcase what they have achieved so far. The midterm conference of the Trans in Form project will be remembered as another milestone of this European project.

Trans in Form has a new partner. The city of Trebbin will substitute the Regional Planning Authority Havelland-Fläming who had to withdraw from TiF. According to a request from Joint State Planning Department, Berlin Brandenburg the Regional Planning Authority Havelland-Fläming has to limit transnational activities and therefore withdraw from the project. ICN talked with Trebbin’s Mayor Thomas Berger.

Trans in Form project is supposed to communicate with other European projects bringing benefits to development and improvements in regions. Networking with a project PURR that we have informed Trans in Form readers about earlier now has found one more interesting project called grids. Best practice guidelines for regional development and strategies.

Tomorrow the Trans in Form project holds a meeting in Potsdam on Scenario planning and benchmarking attractiveness. This is one of the 3 basic methodology workshops in the project. The seminar on New narratives and story telling has already taken place in Latvia and was covering the work-package 4. There is also one methodology event to be held in Poland on investments and technical documentation in May.