The need to allocate the resources to respond the strategic guidelines of the city and the needs of the local area. The visibility of the program.

The development work in East Turku is carried out by an integrated project scheme. Different projects cover a wide range of different measures from reducing the (long term) unemployment to enhancing the marketing the Turku Science Park area as a settle-down area for big companies and enterprises and to developing two family tourism tourist attractions into more profitable products etc.

The amount of different projects run by the city of Turku is 12 at the moment. In addition, there are 5 projects which are run by other actors, for example the university, third sector organisations etc.

The purpose of the co-ordination unit Linkki is to ensure that the strategic guidelines are implified in the body consisting of various projects. This is done by monitoring, consulting, distributing information and evaluating the entity of various projects.

A team of four people, situated at the City Office of Turku, co-ordinates the co-operation between different partners.

The entity/body of various projects follows fairly closely the qualitative and strategic goals set by city, financers and other partners.

The residents and the geographical target area, administration and strategic planning of the city and the partners.

Labour resources: Project Manager, Project Consultant, Communications Co-ordinator and Co-ordinator of Economy. In addition to this, funding and close co-operation with the key partners are crucial elements to reach the targets.

The project is partially funded by EU’s structure funds (ERDF)

City of Turku
Mrs Outi Laikko (Project Manager), tel. +358 22627799

03/01/2000

case

Urban Policy > Economy knowledge & employment > Urban economy

Business support, Employment