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not neglected. The cities, which were once joint partners of the Department of Spatial Planning, continued the stubborn cooperation, added new partners and developed concrete projects, such as a city-regional [...] North Rhine-Westphalian Ministry of Urban Development and Housing, Culture and Sports (MSWKS). The partners for the collaborative research were the Department of Spatial Planning and the independent cities [...] Essen, Herne, Bochum and Dortmund. According to the final accounts for the years 2001 to 2003, the partners of "Städteregion Ruhr 2030" received third-party funding of about € 1.37 million from the BMBF alone …
