This online workshop will grasp the rising demand for second homes and increasing multi-locationality during the COVID-19 pandemic in Nordic countries and discuss the Finnish context in more depth.

The ESPON LAKES project organises a European roundtable on Integrated Territorial Development in large lake regions.

As part of its post-2010 biodiversity policy, the European Commission promoted a strategy for an EU-wide Green Infrastructure (GI) with the aim to provide a framework for integrating GI into sectoral policies, including nature conservation. The underlying idea of this initiative is the recognition of the environment as an infrastructural resource capable of delivering a wide range of ecosystem services.

Regions, cities, and rural areas across Europe and within countries are facing different challenges and opportunities concerning shrinkage. The diversity of processes that determine those challenges and opportunities, depends on the pathways of economic restructuring, on the resilience of local public services and on local initiatives. 

Controlling the rate of urbanisation, its trajectories, and its consequences have a central role in achieving sustainability for the future of the planet. One of the main objectives to reach long-term sustainability is to densify within already-built urban structures without hampering the environmental value and quality of its surroundings, and ultimately halting the further urbanisation of green areas.

National Peer-Learning Workshops and High Level Policy Conference, January – March 2022

Managing urban growth plays a significant role in achieving sustainability and balancing the trilemma of the environmental, economic and social spheres.

The COVID-19 pandemic dramatically affected people's lives across Europe.

Maps are one of the ways to allow for quick overviews. Once you are used to it they are easy to understand and allow displaying quite complex matters crisply and concisely.