Dear ENSURE visitors,

I hope that by now many of you got acquainted with the draft of the guidebook we have published on ensure.org half a year ago.

We have not left this effort to perish. The nucleus of team has organised a network between 8 European cities: Berlin, Copenhagen, Dublin, Glasgow, Hamburg, Lisbon, Valletta and Vilnius to continue the collaboration in the field of urban regeneration and to work on the guidebook. This time we decided to concentrate on one of the aspects - private and public partnerships in mixed function deprived city centre areas. The network works under name of ENTRUST. Please find more information about it on www.ensure.org/entrust. So far, we have only had a starting meeting in Lisbon, there is just very basic information there but soon there will be more information as we proceed.

We are also attempting to cluster a number of other European research projects in urban regeneration, and we hope that in summer 2002 we have some news for you. In case of success, we will be looking for extra-European projects to include in the collaboration, so please send us some information on what you are up to in your work.

However, the most important source of update is going to be YOUR opinion, dear visitor. For now, each part of the guidebook has a message board provided, and as soon as comments start to be posted, we shall change the interface, providing a collaboration space on this website. We at ENSURE hope that you will join us in our endeavour to make this Website a valuable resource of neighbourhood regeneration.

IUPM in 1999
IUPM in 2000