Kiez advisory board Adlershof: contract for sustainable urban development signed!

Kiez advisory board Adlershof: contract for sustainable urban development signed!

Dörpfeldstraße, 12489 Berlin, Deutschland - On June 27, 2025, a cooperation agreement between the Kiez Advisory Board Adlershof and the district administration was signed in the Köpenick town hall. This agreement places the basis for long -term cooperation and aims to promote the interests of residents, traders and owners in the area around Dörpfeldstrasse and to actively involve the development process. The signature was signed by the speaker*interior team of the neighborhood advisory board and by the district councilor Dr. Claudia Leistner provided.

The area around Dörpfeldstrasse was determined as a funding area in 2015 as part of the “Living Center and District of Dörpfeldstrasse” program. The aim of this program is not only to improve the business situation on site, but also a sustainable upgrading of the entire district. Citizen participation plays a central role in this. As early as 2016, the citizens elected the neighborhood advisory board as their advocacy in order to incorporate the concerns of the residents into the plans and to take their perspectives into account. berlin.de reports that the neighborhood advisory board is involved in the development process and is integrated into the exchange about the ongoing projects.

The neighborhood advisory board acts as a mouthpiece between the citizenship and the administration. He is estimated as an impulse and mediator. The main tasks include the support and accompaniment of investments and non-Investive measures in the funding area as well as advising the Treptow-Köpenick district office in the implementation of the "Active Center" funding program on Dörpfeldstrasse. Adlerkiez.de informs about the diverse tasks of the advisory board, including the examination of applications for funding from the Kiezfonds.

The advisory board actively is committed to improving citizenship information and ensuring transparency. He represents the concerns of various groups, from residents to traders to social providers and educational institutions. In addition to direct citizen participation, electronic communication channels are also used in order to achieve as many residents as possible and to incorporate their interests into the development processes.

context and goals of the program

The “Living Center” program is part of the more comprehensive “Social City” program, which also aims to improve living conditions in disadvantaged quarters. As the Federal Center for Political Education was created in 1999 to meet the challenges of social inequality and exclusion in urban areas.

District management plays a central role in the implementation of these goals by putting the needs of the residents into integrated action concepts. Despite critical voices on the effectiveness and the middle provision of the program, the idea of ​​participation remains an pillar of planning, which is intended to promote partnership -based cooperation between citizens and the state.

The signing of the cooperation agreement between the Kiez Advisory Board and the district administration thus represents a significant step in the further development of Dörpfeldstrasse and shows how important citizen participation is for sustainable urban development.