Capitalising on ESPON evidence, the service contract to be awarded shall develop a set of territorial indicators for the performance monitoring of European Territorial Cooperation (ETC) programmes. The indicators shall facilitate the monitoring and evaluation efforts of Managing Authorities, Joint (Technical) Secretariats and other programme bodies involved in the implementation of  ETC programmes.

The applied research seeks to produce a long-term territorial development perspective for Europe, supporting EU post-2020 policies and investment programmes.

The service shall attempt to quantify the impacted contributions of the material cultural heritage to regional development over the past 5 years by establishing a set of comparable socio-economic indicators and performing data collection in the stakeholders’ territories.

The service shall examine how digital health solutions and policies in stakeholders' territories foster development of data-driven healthcare and digital health services, identify existing and pote

The service shall contribute to improving the delivery practices of cross-border public services.

The service shall develop a common spatial development vision for the whole Alpine area towards 2050, consisting of a set of common spatial perspectives.

"Territories with geographical specificities". The main objective of this service contract is to reveal opportunities and challenges of the territorial types of geographic specificities.

"Youth unemployment: territorial trends and regional resilience". The research activity should provide territorial evidence on youth unemployment causes, trends and dynamics with a particular focus on the regional resilience to youth unemployment in different types of regions. 

"Impacts of refugee flows to territorial development in Europe". The objective of this service is to provide evidence on the regional and urban aspects of refugee migration to Europe focusing on different types of European regions and cities.

"Circular Economy and Territorial Consequences"