Targeted Analyses, conducted under Priority 2 of the ESPON Programme, are defined by stakeholders. It is a new type of projects supporting the use of existing ESPON results in partnership with different groups of stakeholders, who will participate actively in the project implementation.

Targeted Analyses provide an opportunity to stakeholders for (1) enhancing their understanding of the larger territorial context, (2) making comparisons to other territories, regions and cities, and hereby (3) providing a European perspective to considerations on the development of their territories.

The expertise needed to carry through the analyses is found by Calls for Proposals based on Project Specification developed by the involved stakeholders and ESPON in close collaboration.

Call for Proposals will open on 24 August 2010 for two Targeted Analyses that have been selected on the base of expression of interest from stakeholders.

The projects shall address the following targeted themes:

• ADES / Airports as Drivers of Economic Success in Peripheral Regions
• AMCER / Advanced Monitoring and Coordination of EU R&D Policies at Regional Level

Budget

The available budget for this Call amounts to 650.000 € as indicated below and one single proposal can be selected for each of the 2 themes indicated.

Potential beneficiaries of this call are public and private bodies.

All the documentation related to the calls, including the project specifications, the procedure for applying, the eligibility rules, the evaluation criteria and the submission material, will be made available by 24 August 2010.

The deadline for applying is 19 October 2010.