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3. Objectives:
What ENTRUST wanted to achieve

The ENTRUST network looked at two fields of inquiry: firstly, preconditions required for building local partnerships; secondly, good practice in promoting and sustaining them.

In ENTRUST, our main objectives were twofold:

• to assemble knowledge about the state of art in urban regeneration in Europe,

• to identify successful principles and approaches in promoting and sustaining local partnerships which could form the base and sustain guidelines for practitioners as well as policy recommendations.

Our research focussed on local partnerships between state, business and residents under two aspects: (a) preconditions and (b) good practice.