About SusSet

The Sustaining Small Expanding Towns (SusSET) project is an EU initiative sponsored by the INTERREG IIIc programme, involving 12 towns - with populations between 5,000 and 35,000 - from Scotland, Sweden, Poland and Greece. In general terms, the Scottish and Swedish towns are steadily growing, whilst the Polish and Greek towns are in the process of restructuring and trying to grow sustainably. Together, these 12 towns have worked for almost three years to explore and share their ideas and experiences. The results are contained in this toolkit and now shared with other similar-sized EU towns. Although the research by these 12 towns will have many inevitable limitations, it is felt that enough work of substance has been produced to merit documentation and sharing, all for the benefit of a more environmentally sustainable and economically competitive Europe.