The high-level online conference “From ESPON 2020 to ESPON 2030 – Building on 20 years of innovative support for territorial policy-making” on 29 March 2022 gathered more than 400 participants to discuss achievements of the present and perspectives of the future of ESPON programme. Read a short summary of the event and find the presentations of the speakers in this article. 

notika seminārs – diskusija “Rīgas metropoles nākotnes attīstības izaicinājumi”, kurā vairāk nekā 400 dalībnieki tika iepazīstināti ar starptautiska ESPON pētījuma “METRO Kohēzijas politikas loma un nākotnes perspektīvas metropoles areālu un pilsētu plānošanā” rezultātiem par Eiropas Savienības Kohēzijas politikas ietekmi uz Rīgas metropoles areāla izaugsmi, plānošanu un konkurētspēju. 

The ESPON Geography of COVID-19 project (Territorial impacts of COVID-19 and policy answers in European regions and cities) is conductin

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Following their initial agreement on the content of the ESPON 2030 programme as a prerequisite for the submission of the programme to the European Commission for

The ESPON seminar aims at discussing “Quality of Life for territorial and citizen-centric policies” bringing together the latest research on the topic and policy challenges. Improving the Quality o

The ESPON seminar aims at discussing “Quality of Life for territorial and citizen-centric policies” bringing together the latest research on the topic and policy challenges.

Today we are publishing three new Policy Briefs that aim to support national, regional and local authorities to improve their planning and support them in the implementation of the European Green D

While European regions and cities slowly emerge from varying degrees of lockdown measures that were imposed to contain the spread of Covid-19, the effects that the sanitary crisis caused are likely

The ‘Perspective for all people and places’ is a comprehensive and cross-cutting TAP, which contains territorial evidence on the key trends and determinants of upward economic and social convergenc