An article of our director, Ilona Raugze, published on EURACTIV on the occasion of the Europe Day 2019 

The European population is ageing rapidly, and this is particularly evident in the cities.

Three new calls for targeted analyses are open. Stakeholders are looking for evidence and policy recommendations on: ---

Genova is a great city. It is also the capital of the Liguria Region, one of the ESPON stakeholders in the URRUC project -urban-rural connections in non-metropolitan areas. The other three stakeholders are the Scarborough Borough Council, Marina Alta, and Västerbotten County

“Understanding the economic impact of cultural heritage – Better investments through improved evidence collection”.

If you want to know how the Alps area will look like in 2050 our ESPON project Alps 2050 is the best source of information.

A place-based approach would give cities and regions the opportunity to address development challenges on the basis of development strategies designed by themselves and could contribute to more efficiency.

In February, we had the opportunity and pleasure to host our colleague from Interact’s Turku office, Philipp Schwartz, who spent two weeks with us as part of the staff exchanges within Interreg. This is his experience.

Between 2015 and 2017 migration flows across 38 European countries included 3.48m first time asylum seekers...

The ESPON seminar is organised in cooperation with the Austrian Presidency of the EU Council and takes place on 5 - 6 December 2018 in Vienna. The objective is to discuss new narratives for territorial development in the context of the Territorial Agenda 2020. It will also debate on how place-based policies can impact mid and long-term Cohesion Policy goals.