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March 23, 2020The COVID19 pandemic will have both sanitary and territorial impacts but regions and cities won’t be hit with the same intensity. ESPON is interested in pooling local experiences and territorial policy responses. And supports actively other European Research Associations to collect scientific evidence on the impact of CORVID19. -
March 23, 2020A flagship ESPON project, the European Territorial Reference Framework (ETRF) had identified almost a year ago the main trends affecting the European territories. It is interesting to see that many of the new uncertainties the pandemic crisis of COVID19 creates today can be still understood and categorized -if adjusted accordingly- under these trends. This creates already a strong basis for the decision-makers that will need to deal with the effects of this crisis in designing their new development policies.
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April 3, 2020People in regions with high levels of income but a negative outlook are probably more pessimistic than people in regions with lower levels of income but positive future perspectives due to better performance. The ESPON project ETRF provided a map that compares the value of each region to its respective national average. Thresholds have been set for both dimensions resulting in three classes for each dimension (below, around, above national average) and consequently in nine groups -
April 2, 2020The Alpine region has a long-standing experience in territorial cooperation that goes back at least to the 1970s. This cooperation is implemented through different EU and national instruments and cross-border programmes for various issues of regional policy and spatial development. The ESPON project Alps 2050 provided an interesting analysis for the common future development of the area with a projection towards 2050.
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March 5, 2020The ESPON seminar “Territorial development and green transition: a future for all places” is organised in cooperation with the Croatian Presidency of the EU Council in the framework of the ESPON 2020 Cooperation Programme, which aims to support policy development for promoting territorial cohesion and harmonious development of the European territory. Registrations will open soon -
February 25, 2020NOTICE: Due to the virus COVID-19 situation and the measures taken by the Belgian state this event is cancelled. We will come back to you soon wit
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June 5, 2019The free movement of labour is one of the “four freedoms” of the European Union and its single market. -
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February 21, 2020The purpose of this call is to contract a service provider to develop a tool that provide a simple, intuitive and user-friendly web application that can be used by stakeholders based on the mapshots and institutional mapping of the 'ESPON ACTAREA' targeted analysis
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February 17, 2020The objective of this research is to produce a methodology that will allow competent planning authorities at national, regional and local administrative levels to quantify the influence of spatial planning policies on GHG emissions in a consistent manner
