CRT is a research and development centre providing knowledge on place development and regional transformation.
From our location on Bornholm and in Copenhagen, we work to investigate, calculate and qualify the societal developments that occur in the country and the city.
Our experts
At CRT, we have been researching regional development for more than 30 years, and our team represents a wide range of specialized competencies.
Our offices
Bymarken 12 DK-3790 Hasle
A. C. Meyers Vænge 15, 2450 Copenhagen
CRT is established on Bornholm and has a branch in Copenhagen.
With our two departments, we are close to developments in both the country and the city.
The Bornholm Research Centre, as it was then called, was established in October 1994.
Today we are CRT — Centre for Regional and Tourism Research.
The aim of the centre was originally to put Bornholm on the Danish research map and contribute to a positive economic development of Bornholm. In January 2001, Bornholm's Research Centre changed its name to Centre for Regional and Tourism Research. In the same year, the Centre changed its focus from an actual research institute to predominantly project and development work.
With the change of government in 2001, it was decided to dismantle a number of councils, boards and institutions. CRT was included on the so-called “death list”, which was published in January 2002. However, a long, tough battle on the part of the board ensured the survival of the centre, and since then CRT has been a self-owned research and development institution with an annual, financial law-backed foundation grant.
Since 2007, the Centre has also developed and operated the Regional Economic Model from our office in Copenhagen.
Our Reality
We live in a time marked by the transformation of the economy and society. Green transformation, digitalization, migration patterns, new forms of consumption, etc. create both opportunities and challenges for our local communities - in the country and in the city.
CRT is set in the world to create a solid knowledge base on regional development. It helps our partners navigate the transformations that can be created globally, but which affect differently regionally and locally.
As a knowledge centre, we are politically independent. We are driven to ensure that public as well as private actors have the necessary knowledge to understand regional developments. That's why we provide research, data and analysis that illuminates how initiatives can impact a geographic area and thus the lives of the people who live there.
Vores Afsæt
The prerequisite for CRT as an independent research and development institution is an annual basic grant secured by financial law, as well as a series of long-term data collaborations on the Regional Economic Model.
This creates the framework for the purpose paragraphs
1. to carry out research and development work in areas where the Centre for Regional and Tourism Research has or may have an independent national location and international impact.
2. to conduct research-based development activities to promote tourism and regional development;
What we stand for
Misión
CRT is the partner for anyone who wants insight into place development and regional transformation.
Vision
Our efforts must benefit the balanced development of regional and local Denmark
Value base
At a time of great transformation, it is important to examine and qualify how changes and special initiatives can affect communities and the lives of citizens differently.
CRT is the knowledge partner for everyone who wants insight into place development and regional transformation
We are a specialized team of experts with modeling tools that can shed light on regional developments.
At CRT, we have been researching regional development for more than 30 years, and our team represents a wide range of specialized competencies that allow us to shed light on regional development from different angles of entry.
But it is in partnerships that we are best.
We therefore place high priority on networking and collaboration.
Our unique experience in the field is supported by our extensive access to data.
Through partnerships, among other things, we have developed the Regional Economic Model, which is the only socio-economic model in Denmark that projects national economic activity at the municipal/regional level.
With the model, we can calculate, among other things, consequences or scenarios for how economic and political interventions affect the social economy nationally, regionally and municipally.
Board of Directors
The Centre for Regional and Tourism Research is governed by a Board of Directors consisting of eight members, seven of whom are appointed by Bornholm Regional Municipality. Of these, one member of the Board of Directors of Erhvervshus Hovedstaden's branch on Bornholm and four members are appointed on the basis of their professional competence and research relevance to the Centre's activities. The Centre's staff shall also appoint a representative to the Management Board.
Bornholm Regional Municipality also has an observer post on the Board of Directors.