The ESPON seminar “New Narratives for Territorial Development” is organised in cooperation with the Austrian Presidency of the EU Council in the framework of the ESPON 2020 Cooperation Programme. The Seminar takes place on 5-6 December 2018 in Vienna.

The conference aims to share and discuss experiences and upcoming challenges in territorial development and cohesion, and how to apply new scientific approaches and tools in territorial research.

This joint ESPON-Interact conference over two days will focus on migratory flows and integration and will shed light on the distribution of asylum seekers and ref

This seminar will examine how to support and encourage SMEs and exploit endogenous resources such as natural capital, heritage, renewable energy, bio-economy and touris

Nova Gorica, Slovenia, 16 May 2018

Dublin, 9 May 2018

Sofia, 30-31 May 2018: you can watch the video's of this Seminar (Day 1; Day 2) and join the conversation on ESPON Twitter #espon

Paris, 28 March 2018

Budapest, 7 March 2018. The conference will examine the challenges for Integrated Territorial Development in the Visegrad 4+2 countries and share ESPON applied research results in the context of territorial governance and spatial planning systems in the V4+2. With concepts such as mainstreamed cooperation, Communities of Intent, place-based strategies and integration of inner peripheries, ESPON will provide further insights into the new logic of and new needs for integration.