ESPON is addressing global challenges such as climate change and its impacts on European regions.

ESPON offers comparable information and evidence based on Applied Research on a wide range of themes relevant for the development of regions and cities. ESPON also offer Targeted Analyses to regions and cities.

Territories are living legacies from the past and contain development potentials for the future. Each territory, be it a rural or urban area, a mountain region or an island, whether it is sparsely or densely populated, all have their own unique development conditions.

ESPON-INTERSTRAT Conference “Positioning urban Scotland in its European context – What can we learn about benchmarking?”, Edinburgh 30 March 2012.  

Report 'Reflections on ESPON results' The Ministry of Employment and Economy and the Ministry of Environment from Finland recently published a report which examines ESPON research projects and findings from a Finnish perspective.

2002–2012: Ten Years of ESPON Throughout 2012 ESPON will celebrate 10 years of operation. ESPON has over the years provided comparable pan-European evidence, analyses and scenarios on territorial dynamics and built up a knowledge and evidence base that help regions, cities and larger territories in deciding on their development.  

The Call for Tenders "ESPON Data Navigator 2012" is open. Deadline for accessing the documentation is 17/02/2012.

ESPON released the publication “Territorial Dynamics in Europe: The Creative Workforce”. The publication focuses on territorial evidence, trends and dynamics of European regions related to the creative workforce.

ESPON releases the final report of EUROISLANDS - The Development of the Islands, European Islands and Cohesion Policy. The final report raises awareness of the specificities and diversity of this specific type of territories and takes into consideration the current policy debate related to the European Cohesion Policy.

The project overview shows the state of progress on 62 projects. The publication presents key facts, thematic scope, policy questions, results envisaged as well as information on timing, budget and transnational project groups.