2019 is a decisive year for Europe. The upcoming agreement on the post-2020 EU budget will also give the final shape to the Cohesion policy.

On the eve of 2018, the voices asking for a stronger territorial approach to development policies in Europe became mainstream.

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

Reconnecting with the citizens

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.

How can research in territorial interrelations, integrated territorial development and new data sources contribute to territorial development and cohesion?

A continuation of the ESPON study on the digitalisation of public services in European cities

Watch Fabrizio Barka's key-note speech at the ESPON seminar in Sofia.  

Ilona Raugze, Director ESPON-EGTC speaking at the High Level Roundtable on integrated territorial development at the World Urban Forum (WUF9)

This video contribution was part of a conference about "Green economy in the Apennine Region" on 22-23 May 2018