This Report on data collection is one of the annexes of the URDICO Final Report. It documents the quantitative data collection and analysis underpinning the ESPON URDICO project. It explains how a policy-oriented, data-driven methodology was developed to generate comparable evidence on the urban dimension of EU Cohesion Policy and other EU funding frameworks at the local level.

The annex describes the bottom-up approach applied across the eight case studies, combining EU-level sources with locally collected project and socio-economic data. It outlines the criteria, scope and methodological choices that made it possible to capture how EU funds are used by cities, while ensuring feasibility, consistency and analytical relevance for policy discussions.