The Partners

The MP4 partnership

Through packages of research and demonstration, the MP4 partners will use innovative open space products, processes and services to demonstrate how to deliver more sustainable growth solutions in expanding areas and amongst key communities.

The MP4 partnership includes practitioners with experience of place making and place keeping and academic institutions researching examples of innovative practice and undertaking critical examinations of practice and methodology.

The partnership is working to:

• Promote innovative partnership approaches involving private enterprises, communities and government
• Illustrate and promote best practice in place-keeping transnationally
• Demonstrate how socio-economic growth can be stimulated and maintained through long-term physical improvements
• Implement, promote and test place-keeping models
• Illustrate how to make the most efficient use of the available resources, through cooperation between different sectors towards shared goals

There are 9 participating project partners:

Lead Partner: South Yorkshire Forest Partnership, UK

C: Sara Parratt-Halbert
T +44(0)114  2571199
E: mailto:sara.parratt-halbert@syforest.co.uk

University of Sheffield, UK

C: Mel Burton
T: +44 (0) 114 2227121
E: mel.burton@sheffield.ac.uk

Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, UK

C: Harry Smith
T: +44 (0) 1314514616
E: h.c.smith@hw.ac.uk

Vlaamse Landmaatschappij, Belgium

C: Pieter Vercammen
T: +32 50458166
E: Pieter.Vercammen@vlm.be

Hafen City Universität Hamburg, Germany

C: Stefan Kreutz
T: +49 (0)40 42827 4545
E: stefan.kreutz@hcu-hamburg.de

Lawaetz Foundation, Hamburg, Germany

C: Ulrich Schenck
T: +49 40399936-56
E: Schenck@lawaetz.de

Gemeente Emmen, Netherlands

C: Wietse Hermanns
T: +31 263 793872
E: info@hermannsconsultancy.com

Göteborg Stad

C: Helen Svenstam
T: +46 31365 5787
E:helen.svenstam@ponf.goteborg.se

University of Copenhagen

C: Christian Lindholst
T: +45 353 31796
E: CHLI@life.ku.dk