The European MASURIN project (Management of Sustainable Revitalising Urban Industrial Sites) brought towns and research centres from six European countries together (France, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Austria, and Italy). It took off at the beginning of 2002 and was carried out in a period of 2 years.

The European Commission supported the MASURIN research project under the 5th Framework Programme (1998-2002) and in this context the project contributed to the implementation of the Key Action 4 "City of Tomorrow" in the specific programme Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development.
Orée and the other French partners (AMIENS METROPOLE, the Chamber of Commerce in Amiens and the French National Institute for Industrial Environment and Risks (INERIS)) took part in the project and they are currently working on its follow-up.

"The aim is – within the framework of a revitalisation process of industrial urban sites – to provide competencies and tools to local authorities, allowing the creation of a new partnership between industry and the public sector based on trust, transparency and open dialogue, in order to gain a sustainable situation, optimised from the environmental and socio-economic point of view. The long-term objective is to improve the conditions of local decision-making process, with respect to industrial activities in the context of the urban environment." (cf. Agenda of the conference in Amiens, PDF)

Finally, the project aimed at realising national and international networks of cities dealing with the issue of the sustainable (re)vitalisation of urban industrial sites.

The results and the knowledge developed in the research project were disseminated in international Working Conferences in different countries.
In France, the results and the prospects of application were presented in a conference on November 18th, 2004 in Amiens. The conference allowed to take stock of the different tools, which had been developed and to detect possibilities to apply them in the European Union and its associated members.

Agenda of the conference in Amiens (PDF)