{"id":52028,"date":"2025-10-15T13:30:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T11:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ils-forschung.de\/2025\/10\/to-what-extent-is-the-regionale-in-north-rhine-westphalia-a-real-world-laboratory-a-regional-development-format-put-to-the-test\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T13:30:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T11:30:31","slug":"to-what-extent-is-the-regionale-in-north-rhine-westphalia-a-real-world-laboratory-a-regional-development-format-put-to-the-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ils-forschung.de\/en\/2025\/10\/to-what-extent-is-the-regionale-in-north-rhine-westphalia-a-real-world-laboratory-a-regional-development-format-put-to-the-test\/","title":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/02513625.2025.2561515\">To what extent is the REGIONALE in North Rhine-Westphalia a real-world laboratory? A regional development format put to the test<\/a>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container has-pattern-background has-mask-background nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1144px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>ILS Researcher Peter Stroms, Eyaiu Hassen, and Thomas Weith as well as Luise Porst from ZALF have published an article in the journal disP \u2013 The Planning Review. The article deals with real-world laboratories which can make an important contribution to initiating, researching and implementing transformative processes within society. In this context, the REGIONALE in North Rhine-Westphalia represents a highly interesting format, having frequently provided innovative and experimental regional development projects and new types of cooperation between stakeholders. Developing a set of criteria for real-world laboratories, this article examines similarities between the REGIONALE and the real-world laboratory approach and discusses both the possible opportunities and challenges that the real-world laboratory perspective could have for the REGIONALE and thus for format-oriented regional development. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/02513625.2025.2561515\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/02513625.2025.2561515<\/a>.Further current selected papers can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ils-forschung.de\/en\/professional-publications\/selected-papers\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":7533,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-publikationen-en"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>To what extent is the REGIONALE in North Rhine-Westphalia a real-world laboratory? 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