Thematic Actions Plans
Climate Νeutral Τerritories
Objective: to produce territorial evidence on (renewable) energy consumption and production, ecosystem services, biodiversity, and natural resources within European territories and its seas. The new evidence to be created will provide information on the territorial opportunities and challenges that could affect the transition of cities and regions towards climate neutrality by 2050. It will allow to understand possible territorial consequences for cities and regions, following different development pathways towards complete carbon neutrality by 2050.
Focus: it will develop knowledge base on the territorial aspects of green transition towards a climate neutral economy in a broader sense, i.e. considering mobility, spatial planning, consumption, energy and society. This TAP will investigate possibilities to transform existing challenges into opportunities by, inter alia, decreasing carbon emissions; increasing carbon sinks and energy efficiency; becoming more energy self-sufficient and eradicating energy poverty.
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Research Projects
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Territorial Cooperation for Blue Renewable Energy - COBREN
How European regions and countries can effectively cooperate and tackle potential sea-use conflicts to produce and provide offshore renewable energy (ORE) to reach European climate and energy goals.
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Latest NewsJanuary 15, 2024We published a call for editors where we invite mainly journalists, but also anyone with experience in translating complex content into easy to read and understand informative text to support us. If you believe you have those skills, read the call and apply. It is a simple application, the list is valid until the end of the programming period and you do not commit yourself to any task in advance.
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Latest NewsAugust 31, 2023This targeted analysis aims to investigate how energy policies at different governance levels can support the acceleration of clean energy transition in central Europe (CE).
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Latest NewsAugust 24, 2023The European research project “Territorial Analysis of Decentralised Energy Markets” is a direct support to the development of energy communities at subnational level.
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Latest NewsAugust 24, 2023The European research project "Territorial Cooperation for Blue Renewable Energy" aims to provide evidence on how European countries and regions coordinate and cooperate in maritime spatial planning and land-sea interactions -focusing on offshore renewable energy and related land
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WorkshopsOctober 30, 2023The webinar aimed at informing and assisting stakeholders in preparing applications for the call for expression of interests. The event focused on the content specifications and the procedures for applying. The webinar also gave participants the chance to get feedback on their questions.
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WorkshopsOctober 16, 2023The conference aims to discuss the actions carried out in Luxembourg to limit urban sprawl, to shed light on other European practices, through the ESPON SUPER project in particular, and consider possible courses of action during a round table.
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Open CallsDecember 22, 2023
The purpose of this call is to establish a pool of editors to develop content, which will feed ESPON’s online (and possibly offline as well) knowledge development campaigns.
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Previous CallsFebruary 9, 2023The objective of this European research project is to deliver high quality research on how European regions and countries can effectively cooperate and tackle potential sea-use conflicts to produce and provide offshore renewable energy (ORE) to reach European climate and energy goals.