Cooperation project with SIR

The research group social geography, in cooperation with SIR (Salzburg Institute for Spatial Planning & Housing), is announcing a project on the changing and growing challenges that municipalities in the federal state of Salzburg have to face in the 21th century. Over the last decades, an increasing number of responsibilities and duties have been transfered to municipalities, while important sources of revenue have eroded. With an ageing population, changes in the labor markets and societal transformation, municipalities have to take part in sustaining social cohesiveness.
The projects aims at identifying the main current and future challenges of municipalities, which in turn will provide local decision makers with information about possible way to act and react.