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The Socially Integrative City (SIC) / Soziale Stadt Programme / name change in 2019 from “Social City” to “Social Cohesion”

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Evidence: Observational / pre–post Top 9% 86/100 · Ask Evidence Copilot about this practice

The Socially Integrative City is a community-led local development scheme. This was originally a federal programme but Berlin refined it with a para-institutional structure called Quartiersmanagement (QM). These are created in each selected neighborhood which then manages differe

7,255
Projects supported (1999-2019)
472.1 € million
Total funding (1999-2019)
The Socially Integrative City (SIC) / Soziale Stadt Programme / name change in 2019 from “Social City” to “Social Cohesion”

Details

Maturity
Established
Promoter
Berlin Senate Department for Urban Development, European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Housing (BMVBW), Working Group of Ministers and Senators of the Länder Responsible for Building, Housing and Settlement (ARGEBAU)
Period
1999-present nationally, 2001 in Berlin
Region (NUTS)
DE30
Keywords
Urban development, public space, education, socio-economic development and inclusion, civic engagement, employment and training

Context

The Socially Integrative City (Soziale Stadt) is a community-led neighbourhood-development scheme, federal since 1999 and refined in Berlin from 2001 through local Quartiersmanagement (QM) teams that manage Neighbourhood Funds for resident-led projects across education, employment, public space and participation.

Activities

Berlin's Social Urban Development Monitoring system ranks neighbourhoods on social-status and social-dynamics indicators (e.g. employment, population movement) to select and categorise intervention areas; QM teams then run a decentralised, resident-driven decision process.

Results

Between 1999 and 2019 the programme funded 7,255 projects across 34 Berlin neighbourhoods (€472.1 million total, of which €223.6 million from the State of Berlin), including 400 microprojects in Körnerkiez; it is listed as a good practice by the European Regional Development Fund (2007-2013 period).

Implementation

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National / regional programmes ERDF — European Regional Development Fund ESF+ — European Social Fund Plus

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