Through ESPON indicators and its database, regions and cities find support to understand their potentials and challenges seen from a European perspective.

Through free access to its research results, analysis, tools and maps, ESPON enhances the understanding of territorial diversity and development opportunities in Europe.

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

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.