Model Hessian Municipality
Since November 2005, Frankenberg has been a "Model Hessian Municipality", the "Family town with future". This ten-year programme seeks to choose two midsize towns in Hesse, and Frankenberg was chosen from a field of 33 candidates. The other town has not been chosen yet.
With the "Family town with future" model project, the state of Hesse would like to test whether, and if so with what success, municipal measures can have a positive influence on demographic development. As part of the scientifically conducted experiment, the town gets up to €5,000,000, spread out over the experiment's running time, to carry out the municipal measures in question. The focus of the Frankenberg experiment will be measures aimed at making family life and work life compatible (the so-called work-life balance).
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