Around €500,000 in funding for »KoopWohl« research project for participation and public welfare
On 6 January 2020, a three-person project team from the Institute for European Urban Studies (IfEU) at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar began working on the »Urban Co-Production of Social Rights and Public Welfare« research project. Scheduled to run until the end of 2022, the collaborative project funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) will focus on negotiations between local civil society stakeholders and municipal authorities. It is being conducted in cooperation with the Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space (IRS) based in Erkner.
New civil society stakeholders, such as housing policy social movements and migrant self-organisations who demand a say in the design of local social participation form the starting point for the research project. Anything from cooperative to conflict-ridden relationships are possible between municipal and state institutions and civil society stakeholders.
»We will examine the constellations of those involved, their ideas for participation, what demands they make of one another and how the various groups legitimise their actions in this context in three thematic area, namely housing, migration and the environment«, explains the project’s scientific coordinator Dr. Lisa Vollmer from the IfEU. »In Thuringia and Berlin, we will use three case studies to research and support cooperative processes already under way in order to systematise different forms of negotiation and to draw up guidelines for action. We will cooperate closely with partners from the field throughout this process by involving one partner from civil society and one from the local authorities in all project phases for each thematic area«.
In the field of housing, the focus is on the negotiations for the so-called Dragonerareal in Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg. In the environmental sector, it is on the negotiations regarding Markthalle 9 in Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg. In the field of migration, the negotiations for anonymous health insurance certificates in Thuringia are examined. These are intended to facilitate access to health care for migrants who do not have legal residence status. The IfEU is responsible for the migration and environment case studies while the IRS is responsible for the housing case study. The Catalan city of Barcelona serves as a European reference city in which a comparative study is being conducted of similar cooperative negotiations between municipal authorities and civil movements.
More information:
www.uni-weimar.de/de/architektur-und-urbanistik/institute/ifeu/forschung/forschungsprojekt-koopwohl
Urban Co-Production of Social Rights and Public Welfare. Negotiations between local civil society stakeholders and municipal authorities (KoopWohl)
Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism
Institute for European Urban Studies (project manager: Dr. Lisa Vollmer)
Project period: 1 January 2020 to 31 December 2022
Funding provider: Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF)
Funding sum: €503,145.17
Dr. Lisa Vollmer (Research Assistant, Professorship for Urban Planning, Institute of European Urbanism) is available in case of questions: Tel.: +49 (0) 36 43 / 58 26 43. Email: lisa.vollmer[at]uni-weimar.de