In South East Europe Brownfields pose a challenge. Being areas where investments could transform them to motors for job creation, they represent an underexplored economic value for SEE. But urgent action is required since the current situation -where huge areas, very close to cities, remaining unexploited- is heavily damaging the image of the cities, weakening their competitive investment position and influencing employment and economic growth. In the SEE area this process is already delayed and hindered due to legal, financial, organisational and bureaucratic problems.
Though RETINA project, 10 partners from 7 different SEE countries joined forces to develop the necessary tools and methodology to tackle the problem in an integrated way, focusing on successful sustainable brownfield revitalization and stakeholder engagement in all steps of the process.
