Regional 2025
Sauerland-Seen habitat
Without the Sauerland-Seen, life in Südwestfalen would only be half as beautiful and relaxing. With new projects within REGIONALE 2025, Biggesee, Listersee, Hennesee, Möhnesee and Sorpesee and their surrounding areas are to be further developed - into feel-good places for recreation, living and digital working. The ideas and needs of local (young) people play a key role in the joint project - including the issue of mobility around the lakes.
The topics
The Lakes Cooperation has identified three focus topics for the process:
Life at the lake
The Sauerland-Seen Cooperation aims to further develop the lake region into an attractive leisure and recreation area for young and old. The target groups are both locals and guests, who benefit from the wide range of sports, cultural and recreational activities on offer at the lakes. The municipalities are coordinating their offers in a targeted manner and digital technology is making it possible to plan leisure activities easily from home.
Coworkation
The Sauerland-Seen cooperation aims to strengthen the lake region as a hotspot for the combination of business and leisure activities. Innovative coworking spaces provide skilled workers and work nomads from all over Germany with a creative working environment in a green setting. Companies offer their employees work opportunities in coworking spaces so that they can combine experiences, nature and creative work in a group. New professionals can find temporary accommodation in coliving offers so that they can try out life at the Sauerland-Seen before settling here permanently. Locals who work from home also benefit from the new offers, as they can relocate their workplace to a coworking space for days or weeks at a time, where they can enjoy peace and quiet and draw new inspiration.
Getting ahead differently
The Sauerland-Seen are known as a place of relaxation for guests and locals - and we want to keep it that way! The Sauerland-Seen Cooperation wants to improve mobility at the lakes and at the same time reduce the volume of traffic, which has increased significantly in some places. New forms of mobility such as sharing services, transport hubs and shuttles offer locals and guests new ways to get from A to B in a comfortable and environmentally friendly way. Attractive mobility options encourage people to leave their cars behind and travel by bike or on foot. Digital visitor guidance also reduces the volume of traffic at the lakes by enabling guests to reach their destination directly.
Detailed project descriptions can be found in the application for the second REGIONALE star.
The creative process
In order to fill these overarching themes with life, those responsible were supported by the participation agency Zebralog 2022 in their search for projects together with citizens. Project ideas could be submitted and evaluated digitally via a digital platform. In June 2022, a think tank will be held at each lake where all interested parties can contribute their ideas.
Details and results of the creative process can be found in the final report presented in the final report.
The start projects
From the variety of ideas submitted, six start projects were selected through continuous consolidation, which will be applied for the second REGIONALE star in 2024.
Further information on the Regionale 2025 Südwestfalen can be found here!