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An INTERREGional contact MEETING between representatives of the project "BLAUES BAND Elbe - Labe" and the BRIDGE - Lifeline Danube project took place in autumn 2000. Due to the initiative of the company ARCADIS a preparatory talk was held in Vienna on 28 July 2000 when it was arranged to exchange the experiences from both projects in the municipalities of Linz and Krems in autumn from 28 to 30 Sept. 2000.(1)

The INTERREG IIC project "BLAUES BAND Elbe - Labe" has been running since 1998; it aims at the tourism development of the Elbe water system. Representatives of the sciences, of ministries and planning departments from the federal states of Brandenburg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Sachsen and the Czech Republic as well as of the BRIDGE - Lifeline Danube project took part in this event in Linz and Krems.

At a meeting of the "Transnationalgroup" in the BKA (Austrian Federal Chancellery) in Vienna on 24 Sept. 1999, first experiences of various INTERREG project teams were exchanged. On 15 Dec. 2000 an exchange of experiences from the BRIDGE project and VISION PLANET took place at the OIR. On 25 May 2001, the project leader visited and international workshop in Rome on the topic of "INTERREG IIIB: An Opportunity for the Protection and Promotion of the Environment in Europe". Valuable experiences for the future of the project could be gained, in particular the necessity to realise a project and establish it among the people.

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(1) Cf. report of company ARCADIS: INTERREGionales Kontakt-MEETING. Projektraum-Befahrung 28.-30.9.2000. Participants, procedure, extracts from the lectures, impressions, discussions, results: see Fa. ARCADIS Heidemij Advies. Sternstraße 8, D-39104 Magdeburg, tel.: +49/0/391/5312123.