Thematic Actions Plans
Places resilient to crises
Objective: to produce territorial evidence on the vulnerability of European territories to different types of crises, such as environmental, economic, social, health and digital disruptions. The new evidence to be created will provide information on the specific strengths of European territories that enable them to withstand crises as well as on their specific development opportunities that can be tapped to better manage the effects of crises.
The comparative studies under this TAP can pinpoint vulnerability and risks of different types of territories to crises as well as transformative development opportunities (based on, e.g., geographical specificities and similarities).
Focus: it will facilitate better understanding of possible territorial consequences related to different crises, by providing new insights and possible pathways for all places confronted with uncertainties, pressures and ‘black swan’ events.
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Research Projects
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Territorialising Resilience: Transforming Europe for an Age of Crisis - TERRES
Develop a concept on ‘territorial resilience’ and an associated policy framework.
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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 will identify strengths and weaknesses of the policy tools applied by the participating stakeholders for the management and prevention of natural risks and social crises with direct demographic and economic consequences.
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Latest NewsAugust 31, 2023This targeted analysis is expected to deliver evidence on territorial effects of the calamities related to climate change, and – on that basis - to work out strategies for adaptation, mitigation and transformation to a more resilient territory.
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Latest NewsAugust 31, 2023This targeted analysis aims to develop evidence on lost development opportunities of regions at the north-eastern EU external border in effect of suspension of cross-border cooperation programmes, and to help reorientate the human capital and policy instruments towards new geogra
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Latest NewsAugust 24, 2023The European Research Project “Territorialising Resilience: Transforming Europe for an Age of Crisis” aims to develop a concept on ‘territorial resilience’ and an associated policy framework alongside the pan-European analysis of territorial trends at the regional scale.
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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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WorkshopsNovember 11, 2022ESPON IRiE project came to an end with fresh evidence on interregional relations to Europe available for policy use.
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Open CallsFebruary 12, 2024
This Targeted Analysis aims at collecting territorial evidence in the stakeholder territories to assess the strengths and weaknesses of existing policies for preventing and managing social and environmental crises.
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Previous CallsFebruary 7, 2024
With this service contract, ESPON shall produce new territorial evidence on possible reorientation of development trajectories of the north-eastern EU border regions - South Karelia (FI), Ida-Viru (EE), Latgale (LV), Euroregion “Country of Lakes” (LT) – as they have been negatively impacted by th
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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 CallsDecember 21, 2023
This Targeted Analysis aims to contribute to the development of resilience strategies for the physical living environment, based on evidence of the vulnerability.
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Pre-AnnouncementDecember 7, 2023The targeted analysis on Improving Local Intermediate Authorities' crises preparedness and territorial Resilience aims to identify strengths and weaknesses of the policy tools applied by the participating stakeholders for the management and prevention of natural risks and social crises with direc