This factsheet is one of the annexes of the URDICO Final Report and provides an overview of Strasbourg’s urban profile, socio-economic context, and its role as the capital of the Grand Est region and a key European hub. It highlights the unique position of the Eurom?tropole de Strasbourg (EMS) as an Intermediary Body managing ERDF and ESF funds since 2002, including the implementation of Integrated Territorial Investments (ITI), which allows the city to align EU funding with its long-term urban strategy.

This factsheet is one of the annexes of the URDICO Final Report and provides an overview of Rotterdam’s urban profile, socio-economic context, and its strategic role as the Netherlands’ second-largest city and a key European port. It details the city’s unique position in EU Cohesion Policy as both a Managing Authority for the ERDF West Netherlands programme and an Intermediate Body for the Just Transition Fund, highlighting its active engagement in urban development and targeted support for disadvantaged neighborhoods.

This factsheet is one of the annexes of the URDICO Final Report and provides an overview of Prague’s urban profile, administrative structure, and role as the Czech Republic’s capital and largest city. It outlines the city’s engagement with EU Cohesion Policy, including its past role as a Managing Authority and Intermediate Body for the Integrated Territorial Investment (ITI), as well as its current participation in national Operational Programmes.

This factsheet is one of the annexes of the URDICO Final Report and provides an overview of Ghent’s urban profile, administrative structure, and socio-economic role within the Flemish Region. It outlines the city’s engagement with EU Cohesion Policy, including its co-steering role in the Antwerp–Ghent ITI, participation in ERDF and ESF programmes, and its long-term, neighbourhood-focused approach to integrated urban development.

This factsheet is one of the annexes of the URDICO Final Report and outlines Florence’s territorial, socio-economic and functional profile, as well as its role in delivering EU Cohesion Policy within the Italian multilevel governance framework. It highlights Florence’s long-standing role as Urban Authority under the NOP Metro and NOP Metro+ programmes, its use of EU funds to support metropolitan-scale, participatory and integrated urban strategies, and the continuity of thematic priorities across the 2014–2020 and 2021–2027 periods.

This factsheet is one of the annexes of the URDICO Final Report and outlines Budapest’s territorial and economic profile and its role in delivering EU Cohesion Policy. It highlights how EU funds supported major urban investments in the 2014–2020 period, while pointing to reduced access to funding and growing financial constraints in 2021–2027, and summarises the city’s and country’s challenges and main achievements in engaging with EU programmes.

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.

This comparative report is one of the annexes of the URDICO Final Report and analyses the role of eight European cities – Budapest, Florence, Ghent, Prague, Rotterdam, Strasbourg, Valencia and Warsaw – within the EU Cohesion Policy framework across the 2014–2020 and 2021–2027 programming periods. As negotiations on the next Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) unfold, the report provides evidence on how governance arrangements shape cities’ involvement in Cohesion Policy and their capacity to align EU funding with long-term urban strategies.

As debates on the future EU budget and Cohesion Policy intensify, the ESPON URDICO Final Report sheds light on how cities actually use and shape EU funds on the ground. Based on eight European case studies, it shows that strong urban roles and multilevel governance are key to effective, place-based Cohesion Policy outcomes. The report and its annexes provide timely evidence for the post-2027 reform debate.

„SUPER -Tvarios urbanizacijos ir žemės naudojimo vadovas“ (angl. SUPER- A guide to sustainable  urbanisationa and land use”) (toliau – SUPER vadovas).