Entwicklungskonzept Oberes Moseltal (EOM)

Impulse projects are used to implement the guiding principles of the EOM in the form of a concrete, action-oriented development concept. The implementation strategy of the EOM was developed in a broadly based participatory process involving municipal actors, experts, and spatial and regional planners, who were asked to answer the following questions

How should the Upper Moselle Valley be developed in the coming years within the framework of cross-border coordination? What are the most important challenges and necessary actions for a sustainable regional development? Which objectives, strategies and processes should contribute to an integrated development of the cross-border region?

The framework for this approach is set by the guiding principles and objectives set by the EOM, which actually involves:

• the facilitation of consultative procedures within the Greater Region: these constitute a harmonized coordination framework at the cross-border level allowing for the development of programs and plans, projects and actions at the regional and municipal levels.
• the consideration of formal programs and participating sides and consequently the orientation of (national) policies and projects according to cross-border guidelines.
• Support for the development of joint measures and impulse projects to implement these objectives. For this purpose it is necessary to look for partners at the local level in particular.
• the impulse for a "bottom-up" process, allowing the actors at the local level to advance the realization of the EOM objectives through their own projects.

Twelve project proposals are intended to initiate the realization of the EOM's guiding idea and to provide strategic impulses. These proposals cover all of the EOM's very diverse thematic fields and contribute to the profile of the area concerned. In order to respond to the diversity proposed by the EOM, various means of implementation on several levels are planned, such as

• initiatives at the level of spatial planning and integration into the relevant legislative framework,
• cross-border impulse projects,
• bottom-up processes to generate projects at the local level,
• construction and development of cross-border governance structures and instruments.

The EOM contributes to the achievement of the objectives of the Greater Region Summit, in particular the strengthening of cross-border cooperation and the development of a cross-border polycentric metropolitan region. It is also coordinated with the spatial planning concept of the Greater Region (SDTGR) developed in parallel.

An essential element of the EOM is the close cooperation between the respective ministries responsible for spatial planning and the local LEADER action groups (LAG), in particular the Frankish-Moselle (RLP) and Miselerland (LU), as well as the municipalities in the region. According to the EOM adage "bottom-up meets top-down", cross-border synergies are created and impulses are given through concrete joint projects.

Therefore, the political objective of "Europe close to the citizens" of the Interreg VI Greater Region 2021 -2027 program is perfectly in line with the objectives of the EOM in order to address the following topics within the common neighborhood region of the Mosel Valley:

• spatial planning, housing and business development, utilities,
• rural landscape, nature protection and preservation of undeveloped areas,
• mobility.