ESPON Newsletter 33, July 2013

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ESPON Scientific Conference "Science in support of European Territorial Development and Cohesion” - Registration is open

ESPON invites for a Scientific Conference in Luxembourg on 12-13 September 2013 to discuss concepts, methodologies, indicators, tools, maps and models developed within the ESPON projects and the European scientific research community in the field of territorial development and cohesion.

The conference is organised in cooperation with the scientific organisations AESOP, ECTP-CEU, ERSA, EUGEO, RSA and the University of Luxembourg and aims at providing a good overview and scientific dialogue on the progress made in the scientific field during the current programming period.

The largest part of the conference is devoted to the presentation of 36 papers submitted by researchers from ESPON projects and the European professional and scientific organizations. The papers presented will be included in the second ESPON 2013 Scientific Report.

Deadline to register for the Scientific Conference is 29 August 2013 at 15h00. More information

ESPON at the OPEN DAYS 2013, 7-10 October 2013

The OPEN DAYS - European Week of Regions and Cities - is the key annual event for regional and local authorities. Marking the new timeline towards the Europe 2020 strategy, this edition of the OPEN DAYS will be held under the slogan "Europe's regions and cities taking off for 2020". This year ESPON will contribute to the event with workshops and a joint exhibition in cooperation with INTERACT, INTERREG IVC and URBACT, as follows:

  • ESPON Workshop “How to make regions and cities more resilient to economic crisis” Tuesday 8 October 2013, 11h15 – 13h00
  • Joint Workshop “More jobs, better cities and regions: how can cities and regions best create and support more and better jobs? Lessons from inter-regional cooperation” Tuesday 8 October 2013, 14h30 – 17h00
  • Speech at the Workshop “Territorial Impact Assessment: a tool for better lawmaking and territorial cohesion” Wednesday 9 October 2013, 11h15 - 13h00
  • ESPON at the Exhibition “100 EUrban solutions” 7-10 October 2013.

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ESPON Tools - Data Navigator online now

The Data Navigator offers an easy access to regional statistical data sources to scientists, policy makers at European, national, regional or local level, statistical offices and the general public. Users have the opportunity to search for data sources by country, theme and territorial scale or making use of an open search function by defining all three variables. Metadata information of available indicators is presented, covering among others the year, unit, source, contact details, access conditions as well as the link to the data itself. Access to Data Navigator

News from Projects

(1) ESPON AMCER supports the next programming period for Structural Funds and contributes to the regional Research & Innovation Smart Specialisation Strategies; (2) Library on Territorial Development - USESPON Project

New Report

Inception Report of Urban benchmarking: CityBench - ESPON CityBench for benchmarking European Urban Zones

"ESPON AMCER supports the next programming period for Structural Funds and contributes to the regional Research & Innovation Smart Specialisation Strategies"

National and regional authorities across Europe are called to draw up Research and Innovation Strategies for Smart Specialization (RIS3), so that the next generation of EU’s Structural Funds can be used more efficiently for sustainable growth and to increase synergies between different EU, national and regional policies.

In this context, AMCER offers territorial evidence on the state of R&D activities and systems in 9 EU regions as well as guidelines with a set of recommendations to support the preparation of indicators for the Smart Specialisation Strategies.

The Presidency of the Tuscany Regional Government, lead stakeholder of AMCER, hosted a conference on 27 June 2013 in Brussels to present the final results of the project. Regions preparing their strategies and more generally their new Operational Programmes, had the opportunity to understand the usefulness of AMCER, in particular concerning regional participation to FP7/Horizon 2020 and CIP/Cosme as a tool for better smart specialization strategies and coordination between European, national and regional policies.

The event provided the opportunity to present concrete elements concerning (1) use of data for policy coordination, (2) how to improve monitoring and coordination of RDI activities at regional level, (3) how to encourage the transfer of good practices at the European level.

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