On the next pages, the Workpackages are described:

1 CO-ORDINATION
2 MANAGEMENT GUIDE
3 ACER MODEL AND TOOL
4 URBER TOOL
5 BATTER MODEL
6 ENCOURAGER
7 CASES
8 DISSEMINATION

Objectives and input to Workpackage
The project management has the total responsibility to make sure that the entire project is carried through according to this application.

The project management has the responsibility to assure that that all Workpackages co-operates in order to reach a comprehensive result. A variety of co-ordination activities will be carried through during the project.

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Objectives and input to Work package
Central objective is the aim for win-win situations (for all actors at all levels) as the key factor for success. The guide will answer the following questions: how can sustainability in a revitalizing process be implemented? How can such a process be managed? How can the involvement and influence of the public and companies can be improved and increased? What are the necessary financial resources? How can the effectiveness and efficiency of the results be measured? What technical solutions can be applied? The issue of land contamination will be dealt with in the guide in a general way (how land contamination will influence the revitalising process). NB Land contamination and remediation activities (including planning etc.) are not the specific subject of our project. The effects of existing land contaminations on the revitalising process will be included. The Management Guide will consist of two parts: the management guide (part 1) and the sourcebook (part 2):

The cases (WP7) will have a prominent input to the Management Guide. Inputs are also expected from WP2 (Sourcebook), and WP3-WP6 (tools). WP1 will provide working procedures.

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Objectives and input to Work package
ACER will assist local authorities in selecting strategies for socio-economic development in connection with projects for city revitalisation. It is a software tool simulating the medium and long-term socio-economic consequences of revitalising actions. The tool will address both the consequences of policy at the city level and of the implementation of specific projects in terms of the socio-economic variables involved and the effects on the changes in land use at the locations of projects and in the neighbourhoods that surround them. So it is a tool, which, by way of simulating, can be used for selecting projects and sites for sustainable urban development within the overall socio-economic objectives of city policy, for example, enhancing the attraction of a city centre or providing employment for the less well educated or introducing soil contamination remediation initiatives.

Input from other Workpackages
The tool will be attuned to the other tools and will need input from the subsequent Workpackages (WP4, WP5, WP6). Input will follow as well from WP1 (co-ordination activities) and the cases (WP7).

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Objectives and input to Work package
This Workpackage aims at developing a tool for integrated environmental assessment of the current situation and the situation during and after the revitalising process. The tool shall address air and water quality and noise, and will be based on an existing tools used for assessing urban environmental situation. Input to this tool will be industrial and urban emission inventories, including detailed road traffic emissions and energy consumption levels, area and land use description, water resources, meteorological, air and water quality measurements, population distribution. The output will give air, water and noise pollution levels in the simulated area. URBER will be able to perform environmental assessments for new emission scenarios proposed by BATTER and ACER tools during the revitalising processes. The output of such scenarios will indicate effects of the revitalising strategies simulated, which will lead to optimised strategies for the improvement of the environment.

Input from other Work packages
The tool will be attuned to the other tools and will need input from the subsequent Workpackages (WP3, WP5). Input will follow as well from WP1 (co-ordination activities) and the cases (WP7).

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Objectives and input to Work package
BATTER will support local authorities in selecting the best techniques to revitalize the industrial part of the urban site; its use can also support the revitalisation of larger territories. BATTER will be based on the approaches of the " BEST AVAILABLE TECHNIQUES" (BAT) and "Reference Installation". The BAT is meant to be a techno-economic description of less polluting technical options to substitute or integrate the present process. The "Reference Installation" is an approach that allows dividing installations into homogeneous categories. It is necessary to solve the problems posed by the significant differences between installations due to sizes, capacity, and applied processes. BATTER is a tool assessing, in an integrated way, the pollution reduction that can be achieved adopting a BAT or a BAT combination, and the related costs, (investments, operating, and other costs coming from the susceptibility of companies to adopt BAT), whether for a territory or for a single installation. The application and implementation of best available technology is strongly influenced by the distribution and acceptance of information. Driving forces of these factors is the culture and strategy of the involved companies and the education of responsible and employees. An essential precondition for a successful realisation of innovation strategies is therefore the identification of innovation state of companies involved in the revitalisation process. During the EC project MOSES an indicative method for the identification of companies' strategies in relation to regional innovation processes was developed. This methodological tool can be adapted and modified for application in revitalisation processes.

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Objectives and input to Work package
This work package aims at developing a decision tool that will help local authorities define their strategies to encourage enterprises, as a whole and specifically, to co-operate in the sustainable development management process of an - existing, to be revitalised or in project - industrial park by offering or showing them the possible benefits (reduction of operational costs, of taxes, of insurances, improvement of corporate image, of relationship with neighbourhood, etc.). The research program will take into account the will of local authorities to minimise the overall impact of an industrial park, while optimising the gain for each of the companies in the cluster they formed. The tool should take as inputs the objectives for the industrial park defined by local authorities resulting from the application of the URBER tool, the list of companies involved, their specific characteristics, as well as data dealing with the local context. He will also use BATTER to optimise processes in the different enterprises and between two or more of them (i.e. utilisation of heat excess or by-products or wastes valorisation). It will give as outputs the overall strategy that should be applied for the industrial park and the particular strategy that should be used when dealing with each company. The results will be used as inputs by the ACER tool in order to assess the socio-economic consequences of the strategy chosen.

Input from other Workpackages
The tool will be attuned to the other tools and will need inputs from the subsequent Work packages (WP3, WP4, WP5). Input will follow as well from WP1 (co-ordination activities) and the cases (WP7).

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Objectives and input to Work package
To improve the results of this project it is foreseen that the partner cities will start a revitalising process, introducing MASURIN activities. On the other hand the cities will participate in the development of the MASURIN project with their experience, knowledge of the site and other specific information that will serve as inputs to the models and tools to be developed. The cases are therefore part of the research approach and assure sustainable of the city industrial sites based on existing examples. The research partners will assist the local authorities to develop a Master plan, including a work plan for actions and strategy, a monitoring approach and preliminary cost assessment.

Description of the work
The cases will take as initial data description of the specific problems (aspects) of industrial sides of the large and medium six cities with different characteristics, different level of development and located in different regions of Europe.

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Objectives and input to Work package
This Workpackage must ensure that the results of the project and the tools developed will be known and potentially used all around Europe. The dissemination process will use different means of communication in order to touch a large public. Communication actions will take place from the beginning of the project, all through the first second, and third year with publications and conferences, until the tools have been completed and the first results of revitalisation processes in cities achieved. Dissemination will logically accelerate during the last six months of the project. First dissemination actions will take as inputs the contents and objectives of the projects, and the benefits that could be gained from a revitalisation process. Contacts with potential users or interested parties through the first step of dissemination will give an opportunity to orientate the work depending on their needs expressed during this stage. As soon as the tools are completed and the revitalisation processes give their first results, communication will focus on these tools and results.

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	First International conference will present the project, give information about the socio-economic benefits that could be gained and gather data from the experience of the participants
	2nd International conference promotes exchange about the sustainable management of urban industrial sites
	Opening the website to public will provide information about the project in free access for the public
	3rd and 4th International Conference will provide information about the tests of the tools developed and the first results achieved on a technical as well as an economical point of view
	5th International conference will present the final results, and potential further development
	National days and workshops as well as publications in professional magazines all through the project will ensure a large public is touched, and contacts with the partners are possible and encouraged

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