LORDIMAS - Digital Maturity Assessment for Local and Regional Governments
LORDIMAS is a Digital Maturity Assessment tool for local, metropolitan, and regional governments. It is an interactive tool that helps governments understand where they are in their digital transformation journey. It facilitates annual monitoring and assists governments in making informed policy decisions to improve their digital transition. By participating, local, metropolitan, and regional governments provide national and EU-level policymakers with valuable information to design their policy support mechanisms and with more targeted funding.
LORDIMAS enables users to:
Testing the Rural Planning and Innovation Lab (RUPIL)
This case report seeks evidence of how strategic planning in rural areas may respond to complex demographic changes that would not have happened without the successful cooperation of three interested and relevant parties. The Albula region in the Graubünden Canton of Switzerland, Malung-Sälen Municipality in Dalarna County in Sweden, and Os Municipality in Innlandet County in Norway have proved to be the best cases we could hope for in a fast-moving project like this.
Innovative Planning in Shrinking Societies
Currently, 40% of the population in Europe lives in a shrinking region, which means they experience a declining and/or ageing population. This especially impacts rural regions, where natural decline, continued urbanisation, and accompanying centralisation are expected to accelerate shrinking in these regional areas. Policy challenges are evident in, for example, labour market shortages, fiscal sustainability, infrastructure provision and access to services. Local planning is crucial to meet these changes and identify new and innovative strategies and solutions.
RURALPLAN final report
RURALPLAN project provides a theoretical and practical framework for innovative strategic planning for development without (population) growth. This perspective constructively addresses the complex challenges of such areas without placing the stigma of ‘failing to grow’ on local and regional entities and societies. Such a change of mindset is challenging in traditional planning terms when development equals growth.
[TERRA RES] - Territorial Exaptive Resilience along EU Eastern Borders
This study provides a comprehensive analysis of territorial exaptive resilience along the EU's eastern borders, examining how regions mobilize and repurpose existing assets and capabilities in response to external challenges or shocks. Through rigorous quantitative analysis and detailed case studies, the research advances our understanding of regional adaptation and transformation in peripheral areas, contributing to both theoretical discourse and policy development.
Territorial perspectives of digital transition in European regions (DIGIREG)
The European research project “Territorial perspectives of digital transition in European regions” aims to provide new evidence on the development and territorial diffusion of digital divides. It shall comprehend the drivers behind and analyse available data at the relevant territorial scales (at least NUTS 3) in order to provide an overview of digital transition trends in different types of European territories. In addition, this European research project shall address socioeconomic impact of digital transition.
ESPON Targeted Analysis Orientations for the development of an Atlantic Macro-Region (AtlanticMRS)
The service contract shall support the efforts for building a common development vision for the Atlantic Area, which should strengthen the territorial cooperation among regions. It shall contribute to reducing obstacles to a common sustainable territorial development and to strengthening actions aiming at coping with common territorial challenges and thereby supporting actions to further defining the contours of an Atlantic Macro-Region
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Prior Information Notice (PIN) for a Targeted Analysis on Orientations for the development of an Atlantic Macro-Region (AtlanticMRS)
EUR 250,000.00
The 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 different levels, and to recommend best governance schemes to contribute to the sustainable development of the Atlantic area.
