If you want to know how the Alps area will look like in 2050 our ESPON project Alps 2050 is the best source of information.

A place-based approach would give cities and regions the opportunity to address development challenges on the basis of development strategies designed by themselves and could contribute to more efficiency.

In February, we had the opportunity and pleasure to host our colleague from Interact’s Turku office, Philipp Schwartz, who spent two weeks with us as part of the staff exchanges within Interreg. This is his experience.

Between 2015 and 2017 migration flows across 38 European countries included 3.48m first time asylum seekers...

The ESPON seminar is organised in cooperation with the Austrian Presidency of the EU Council and takes place on 5 - 6 December 2018 in Vienna. The objective is to discuss new narratives for territorial development in the context of the Territorial Agenda 2020. It will also debate on how place-based policies can impact mid and long-term Cohesion Policy goals.

How can research in territorial interrelations, integrated territorial development and new data sources contribute to territorial development and cohesion?

A continuation of the ESPON study on the digitalisation of public services in European cities

Watch Fabrizio Barka's key-note speech at the ESPON seminar in Sofia.  

New legislation regarding public procurement has been approved recently in Luxembourg and therefore from 20 of April 2018 the following law and regulation have entered into force:

EU Commissioner for Regional Policy Corina Creţu and Secretary of State for Sustainable Development and Infrastructure Camille Gira visited ESPON EGTC