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We need your input: Survey on the Territorial Agenda 2030 uptake
Latest News | March 26, 2024ESPON EGTC is currently running the project ‘Stocktaking R
ESPON EGTC is currently running the project ‘Stocktaking R
Join us for the ESPON Seminar we organise in collaboration with the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the European Union on No Net Land Take trajectories: policies and practices across Europe, an event specifically dedicated to addressing topical policy debates surrounding land use in European regions and countries.
The German ESPON Contact Point operating in the Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs, and Spatial Development (BBSR), within the Federal Office for Building and Regional
Die ESPON Kontaktpunkte (ECP) in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz laden Sie herzlich ein, am ersten ESPON-Workshops der Akteure im D-A-CH-Raum.
The German ESPON Contact Point operating in the Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs, and Spatial Development (BBSR), within the Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning (BBR), cordially invites local stakeholders from the Eurodistrict Strasbourg-Ortenau to participate in a collaborative workshop. The workshop will leverage the innovative ACTAREA tool developed by ESPON to address and analyze the spatial needs within the region.
The project overview shows the state of progress on 62 projects. The publication presents key facts, thematic scope, policy questions, results envisaged as well as information on timing, budget and transnational project groups.
Three Calls for Tenders are open: Webservices and IT-Solutions, Data Navigator, Online Map Finder - Content Part. Deadline for accessing the documentation is 28/12/2011.
ESPON is financing 4 new applied research projects over the coming two to three years. The projects cover a variety of themes: from the EU 2020 Strategy to Territorial Scenarios and Visions for Europe to Territorial Potentials for a Greener Economy and Territorial Governance.
The European Parliament has published a study on the Visions and Options for Cohesion Policy after 2013 which is also based on ESPON data and finding. One of the policy recommendations to inform the position of the European Parliament is “The potential contribution of ESPON to policy design and delivery needs to be better exploited”.
How to face challenges and use potentials of land use patterns and dynamics? Find out more at the Interim Report of the Project EU-LUPA / European Land Use Patterns
Brussels, 20 October 2011 Regional indicators for territorial cohesion are increasingly in demand. ESPON invites policy makers, regional practitioners and scientists to attend the workshop where participants will debate which indicators can be used to better understand and illustrate different facets of territorial cohesion.
Johannes Hahn, Michael Smyth, Claude Wiseler and Peter Mehlbye talk about ESPON
About 200 participants from 153 Institutions and 26 countries around Europe attended the Info Day and Partner Café in Brussels on 13 September 2011. The presentations are now online.
ESPON releases today the final report of EDORA - European Development Opportunities in Rural Areas. This applied research project has studied the changes which are taking place in rural areas of Europe, and their increasing diversity, in order to develop a clear and consistent rationale for policy to enhance territorial cohesion.
In the framework of the Calls for Proposals, ESPON invited for an Info Day and Partner Café in Brussels on 13 September 2011. The registration for the Info Day is now closed.