It is supported by the European Commission under the Fifth Framework RTD Programme/Key Action 4 'City of Tomorrow and Cultural Heritage'. The network of city teams was generated by Byfornyelse Danmark on request of the City of Copenhagen and Integrated Area Planning in Dublin. ENTRUST followed up and extended previous steps of cooperation in INTERREG IIC (Integrated Urban Planning and Management, 1998-2001).

ENTRUST was launched in 2002. A major focus of the network was to involve partnerships in, and for the betterment of deprived neighbourhoods whilst producing and making use of the transnational knowledge base. Its main aims are raising awareness of, and facilitating new approaches to urban regeneration.

This report presents emerging experience and lessons that are deeply rooted in a variety of different national and local traditions of urban regeneration. At the same time it demonstrates the ways in which the participating cities have come to draw on each other's experiences in devising urban strategies. In doing so, they also attempt to develop new approaches which are more comprehensive, integrated and agency-oriented. These new patterns of regeneration are therefore increasingly informed by cross-national transfers of knowledge and mutual learning.

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