The project aims at strengthening co-operation potentials between regional development units and their working environments and surroundings in the participating regions and finally fostering spatial integration by establishing and intensifying co-operation between these actors.

This will be organised by a Knowledge and Information Manager (KIM) model which will be developed after an intensive survey in the participating regions. The main tasks and duties of the KIM are to get to know a comprehensive overview of regional development processes on different levels (regional, national, interregional bi- and multi-lateral) and to touch potential areas of regional development in an integrative multi-sectoral manner and as a holistic approach.

The KIM model will be anchored in the participating regions and transferred to an enlarged network of project partner organisations, thus contributing to overcome regional disparities between candidate / 3rd countries and EU member states.