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May 5, 2021ESPON BusDev case study research in EU external border regions in Latvia, Lithuania and Romania depicted possibilities to promote business development at EU external borders. Place-based policies focusing on border realities can help them to enhance business development. -
April 22, 2021Enhancing QoL is a key objective for policymakers at different scales, and it has become more relevant in the policy agenda along with increasing demands for the participation of citizens in the political process. ESPON has played a timely role with this working paper, which is intended to inform and inspire policymakers and stakeholders on to how to operationalise and integrate QoL into policy processes at different levels.
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April 27, 2021ESPON research highlights the need for specified approaches to support business development effectively in external border regions. Despite the commonality of the border location, these places differ in many respects. This asks for place-based business support policies looking at internal and cross-border opportunities -
April 15, 2021ESPON research on demographic and socio-economic dynamics affecting shrinking EU rural regions revealed a strong East-West divide. While most of these regions show a negative natural change, outmigration makes the difference. Peripherality and poor competitiveness compared to national centres foster such trends
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April 27, 2021ESPON research highlights the need for specified approaches to support business development effectively in external border regions. Despite the commonality of the border location, these places differ in many respects. This asks for place-based business support policies looking at internal and cross-border opportunities
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April 15, 2021ESPON research on demographic and socio-economic dynamics affecting shrinking EU rural regions revealed a strong East-West divide. While most of these regions show a negative natural change, outmigration makes the difference. Peripherality and poor competitiveness compared to national centres foster such trends
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April 22, 2021We are currently experiencing the challenges of reducing the effects of climate change; not only with regard to climate mitigation efforts (such as implementing the EU Green Deal to reduce the impa
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November 2, 2020Maritime spatial planning (MSP) is a process that encompasses the analysis and organisation of human activities in marine areas to achieve ecological, economic and social objectives. -
May 29, 2020During the European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018, over 23 000 events were organised, reaching more than 12.8 million participants (1).
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April 2, 2021The service contract shall conduct empirical research estimating (a) the extent to which and conditions under which knowledge spillovers from Continental Europe explain entrepreneurship in the oute
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March 19, 2021The service contract resulting from this call for tenders shall contribute to further disseminating, developing and improving the ESPON knowledge base, more specifically by taking up the evidence
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Democracy can be a game changer for business development in EU’s external border regions
Being peripheral in their own countries the EU eastern external border regions face particular development challenges and less entrepreneurship than in other parts of the same country.
