On 25th June 2010 Kavala Municipality hold an Interregional Conference focused on exploring the procedure to turn old military Brownfields in spaces for entrepreneurial activities, taking as a starting point the direct experience of Pleven Municipality military brown-fields about local property and procedural models as a tool to manage negotiation/acquisition process from central to local authorities.
The event foresaw the participation of the Mayor of Pleven Municipality (Bulgaria) and it was addressed to the staff and employees of the Municipality who participate with their work contribution in the implementation of FATE project.
The conference was divided in 2 different analysis sections: identification and evaluation of case studies about the restructuring process of military brown-fields in the Municipality of Pleven; identification and evaluation of the best practices at the local level in Greece and Bulgaria.

In order to communicate the progress of the project to a wider public of the region, the Drama Chamber is planning a major promotional event that will take place on the 26th of May at the Drama Chamber Conference Center. The promotional event will start at 19:00 and will end at about 22:00 with three different promotional meetings that will be directed to three different parts of local audiences. Further details available cliking on the calendar.

The third Steering Committee and Partners Meeting has been held in Kavala (Greece) on 4th ÔÇô 5th May 2010.

The first day was focused on the main findings and results of the Work Package 3 ÔÇ£ Analysis of Military BrownfieldsÔÇØ that represented the starting point of the specif technical activities of the project, consisting in: the setting up of a common methodological tools for the activities of the project, the realisation of a context and SWOT analysis and the assessment of the military brownfields suitable for starting the reahbilitation process. To this regard each project partner presented a mapping of the dismessed military brownfields in the areas of the project implementation.

The methodology and the next activities foresee by the Work Package 4 ÔÇ£Tools to manage the Process F.A.T.EÔÇØ, aimed at providing the regional and local administrations with useful tools and measures to manage the entire process of conversion, have been discussed during the second and last day of the meeting.

A Steering Committee and a Workshop about WP4 ÔÇô Tools to manage the process FATE will be held in Slovenia on 16th-17th November 2010, more detailed information will be given in the next months.

The SEE March Newsletter gave space to an overview of the FATE Project and its ongoing activities.
FATE demonstrates the varied opportunities offered within the framework of the fourth priority area "Development of transnational synergies for sustainable growth areas" under the area of intervention 4.1: "Tackling crucial problems affecting metropolitan areas and regional systems of settlements."

The complete article is available on the SEE Programme website: http://www.southeast-europe.net/admin/show_doc.cmt?lang=en&path=news_and_events/project_news/fate.