Øresund Region

The Öresund Region is a European transnational metropolitan area in the Sound between Denmark and Sweden.

Delimitation and population

The Øresund region is made up of the province of Skåne on the Swedish and Sealand, Lolland, Falster, Møn and Bornholm on the Danish side. Here live in an area around 21,000 km ², 3.8 million people (as of 2012), two-thirds in Denmark and one third in Sweden.

Economy and Transport

The Öresund region owes its existence to the completion of the Oresund connection with the Öresund Bridge and Drogdentunnel that connects since 2000 Scania and Zealand. This connection strengthens the coalescence of the transnational metropolitan area. Next to the bridge in the north also combines a high-frequency service between Helsingborg and Elsinore both countries.

The Oresund Region is one of the most important economic regions in the Baltic region. According to an article in The Economist in 2007, the region to the economic conditions of the friendliest in the world. This will Moored at the location (keyword "gateway to the Baltic Sea" ), good infrastructure (International Copenhagen airport, extensive road and rail network, many shipping routes ), international understanding ( fluent English is mandatory setting criterion for professionals ), the good soft location factors, the good educational institutions and the cluster structure.

Eight universities on both sides of the Sound joined together in 1997 to the international Öresund University. The University of Copenhagen is one of the top 50 educational institutions worldwide.

In the Öresund region, extensive clusters have formed. These include:

1 " Medicon Valley " (clusters of Life Sciences, emphasis in Cancer and Allergy Research )

2 " Øresund IT region" (cluster for Information and Communication Sciences, focal points in nano-, micro-technology and software development)

3 " Copenhagen Cleantech Cluster" (cluster of new environmental technologies, emphasis in wind, bioenergy, fuel cell development, development of electric vehicles )

On the concept of a compound of the metropolitan region Öresund region and the Hamburg metropolitan region in the wake of bird flight line still lacks a fixed crossing the Fehmarn Belt between the Danish island of Lolland and Fehmarn, which was adopted in June 2007 by the governments of Germany, Schleswig -Holstein and Denmark.

Historical Background

The now united by the Öresund Bridge region belonged to 1658 together politically. It was not until the Treaty of Roskilde was the hitherto Danish part of the country Skåne to Sweden.