Thematic Actions Plans
Governance of new geographies
Objective: to develop methodological studies aimed at identifying emerging geographies, their socio-economic characteristics and integrated development potential. It will also give an opportunity to assess existing governance mechanisms and recommend new ones, while promoting functional approach in planning and governance; networking and involvement of civil societies, youth initiatives and actions by other stakeholders.
This TAP will avail new and innovative territorial data on delineations and development trends of functional territories, in order to boost tailored multi-level governance mechanisms addressing different type of functional areas and to improve capacities of spatial planning authorities and involved stakeholders.
Focus: it will develop a knowledge base to better understand new emerging geographies in terms of their delineations, functional and cooperation arrangements and involved actors and stakeholders. In addition, through the observations for the entire ESPON Programme area, this TAP shall provide new knowledge and possible pathways on how to find appropriate and new governance mechanisms.
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Research Projects
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Territorial governance of non-standard geographies - Nostageo
Definitions, delimitations, development trends and ongoing cooperation arrangements of emerging functional territories.
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Latest NewsJanuary 15, 2024We published a call for editors where we invite mainly journalists, but also anyone with experience in translating complex content into easy to read and understand informative text to support us. If you believe you have those skills, read the call and apply. It is a simple application, the list is valid until the end of the programming period and you do not commit yourself to any task in advance.
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Latest NewsAugust 31, 2023This targeted analysis aims at collecting new territorial evidence on the socio-economic and environmental characteristics of the Atlantic area, analyse cooperation gaps between the Atlantic territories and institutions at the different levels, and to recommend best governance schemes to contribu
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Latest NewsAugust 31, 2023This targeted analysis focuses on the Carpathian area, and aims to deliver evidence identifying specific territorial development trends, challenges and opportunities for its regions.
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Latest NewsAugust 30, 2023This targeted analysis will analyse and map flows and interlinkages in Alpine interface territories - between the mountainous inner Alpine area and the metropolitan pre-Alpine lowland.
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Latest NewsAugust 24, 2023The European research project “Territorial governance of non-standard geographies” aims to improve the understanding of emerging functional territories in terms of their definitions, delimitations, development trends and ongoing cooperation arrangements.
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WorkshopsApril 4, 2024The 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 Saar-Moselle to participa
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WorkshopsFebruary 20, 2024Die ESPON Kontaktpunkte (ECP) in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz laden Sie herzlich ein, am ersten ESPON-Workshops der Akteure im D-A-CH-Raum.
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WorkshopsJanuary 15, 2024The 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.
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WorkshopsNovember 24, 2023The purpose of this half-day seminar is to consider what approaches have been adopted to date regarding the governance of the MASPS, and to what extent experience from elsewhere in Europe, drawing on previous ESPON and current OECD research, can inform the structures to be put in place as the MASP concept evolves.
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WorkshopsOctober 30, 2023The webinar aimed at informing and assisting stakeholders in preparing applications for the call for expression of interests. The event focused on the content specifications and the procedures for applying. The webinar also gave participants the chance to get feedback on their questions.
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Previous CallsDecember 22, 2023The service contract shall support the efforts for building a common development vision for the Atlantic Area, which should strengthen the territorial cooperation among regions.
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Open CallsDecember 22, 2023
The purpose of this call is to establish a pool of editors to develop content, which will feed ESPON’s online (and possibly offline as well) knowledge development campaigns.
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Pre-AnnouncementDecember 7, 2023The targeted analysis on Orientations for the development of an Atlantic Macro-Region aims at collecting new territorial evidence on the socio-economic and environmental characteristics of the Atlantic area, analyse cooperation gaps between the Atlantic territories and institutions at the differe
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Previous CallsSeptember 18, 2023The ESPON EGTC is launching an open call for tenders to further build up ESPON’s stock of research and enhance the European territorial evidence production in the framework of the ESPON 2030 Cooperation Programme.
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Previous CallsFebruary 9, 2023
The objective of this European research project is to deliver high quality research on emerging non-standard functional territories in terms of their definitions, delimitations, development trends and ongoing hard and soft cooperation arrangements.