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.

The NoStaGeo final report compares and assesses territorial governance approaches that have been put in place in different institutional contexts in Europe to handle non-standard geographies and their functional interrelations, describing principles of good practice, preconditions and potentials, and highlighting limits and pitfalls.

This report presents the findings and insights from stakeholder consultations conducted as part of the ESPON TERRES project. It details the engagement process with policymakers, researchers, and practitioners to refine the Territorial Resilience Dashboard (TRD), a tool designed to support data-driven territorial planning and resilience assessment across Europe.

This report summarises the main findings and outputs of the TERRES (Territorialising Resilience: Trans-forming Europe for an Age of Crisis) collaborative European research project, commissioned by the ESPON EGTC under the ESPON 2030 Cooperation Programme. As a European applied research initiative, ESPON TERRES aimed to advance both the theoretical and practical understanding of territorial resilience by devel-oping a conceptual framework that reflects the current “state of the art” in the field.

This report summarises the main findings and outputs of the TERRES (Territorialising Resilience: Trans-forming Europe for an Age of Crisis) collaborative European research project, commissioned by the ESPON EGTC under the ESPON 2030 Cooperation Programme. As a European applied research initiative, ESPON TERRES aimed to advance both the theoretical and practical understanding of territorial resilience by devel-oping a conceptual framework that reflects the current “state of the art” in the field.