ESPON TIA Tool Upgrade (2017-2020)

Theme: Territorial Impact Assessment

Scope

The main outcome of this project will be an upgraded and updated ESPON TIA Tool, a Quick Check ensuring territorial impact assessment. This tool has been developed in the previous programming period in order to support policymakers and practitioners with identifying, ex-ante, potential territorial impacts of new EU Legislations, Policies and Directives (LPDs). The project will further develop a user-friendly ESPON TIA web application by providing, in addition, the possibility to carry out Urban Impact Assessment, Cross-border TIA and TIA focused on other specific types of regions. In addition, new and innovative functionalities will be integrated and existing datasets, typologies will be updated and new indicators will be added.

This activity will also support the preparation, moderation and documentation of TIA workshops organized by main stakeholders like the European Commission and the European Committee of the Regions, but also by other stakeholders wishing to use the TIA tool and in need for support. Training of potential moderators of the ESPON TIA tool will be also ensured during the project.

TIA Tool

  • The ESPON TIA tool can be found HERE

Contractors

  • ÖIR, Austrian Institute for Regional Studies and Spatial Planning, AT (lead contractor)
  • Laurentia, ES

Budget: € 200 000

Lifetime: February 2017 – February 2020

Deliveries

  • Delivery – Description of new functionalities and updated TIA tool, 8 September 8 2017
  • Delivery – Beta version of the tool with a specific focus on urban areas and cross-border areas, 8 February 2018
  • Delivery – Final version of the upgraded TIA tool, 8 August 2018
  • Final delivery – Final report documenting results, 10 February 2020

    TIA Workshops

    • Brussels, 6 March 2017 – “Smart Specialisation”, organiser European Committee of the Regions, report
    • Brussels, 17 March 2017 – “Revision of Directive 2000/59/EC on Port Reception Facilities for ship-generated waste and cargo residues”, organizer European Commission DG REGIO/DG MOVE
    • Brussels, 5 April 2017 – “Development of Minimum Quality Requirements for Reused Water in Agricultural Irrigation and Aquifer Recharge”, organizer European Commission DG REGIO/DG ENV
    • Brussels, 11 May 2017 – “Revision of Directive 2009/33/EC on the promotion of clean and energy-efficient road vehicles”, organizer European Commission DG REGIO/DG MOVE
    • Brussels, 11 October 2017 “Proposal for a Directive on work-life balance”, organiser European Committee of the Regions, report
    • Brussels, 20 February 2018 - UK's withdrawal from the European Union, organiser European Committee of the Regions, report
    • Brussels, 13 March 2018 - ex-post cross-border TIA on EGTC Regulation (EU) No 1302/2013, organiser European Committee of the Regions, report
    • Brussels, 14 March 2018 - Cross-border TIA on European Territorial Cooperation post-2020, organiser European Committee of the Regions, report
    • Brussels, 28 May 2018 - Urban TIA on 2030 Agenda, organiser European Committee of the Regions, report
    • Brussels, 27 June 2018 - Draft regulation on a mechanism to resolve legal and administrative obstacles in a cross-border context, organizer European Commission DG REGIO
    • Brussels, 24 July 2018 - European Labour Authority, organiser European Committee of the Regions, report
    • Krakow24 October 2018 - Draft Common Provisions regulation (COM/2018/375), organiser INTERACT
    • Brussels, 06 March 2019 - EU Industrial Policy Strategy, organiser European Committee of the Regions, report
    • Brussels, 01 April 2019 - European Commission's Updated Bio-economy Strategy, organiser European Committee of the Regions, report
    • Brussels, 05 April 2019 - European Commission's 2050 strategy on climate-neutral economy, organiser European Committee of the Regions, report
    • Brussels, 02 May 2019 - European Commission's legislative framework "Clean Energy for All Europeans", organiser European Committee of the Regions, report
    • Brussels, 30 January 2020 - Demographic Change, organiser European Committee of the Regions, report
    • Brussels, 31 January 2020 - Biodiversity, organiser European Committee of the Regions, report
    • Online, 09 – 10 June, 2020 - Trans-European transport network (TEN-T), organiser European Committee of the Regions, report 

Contact:

Zintis Hermansons (workshops), [email protected]

Dr Marjan van Herwijnen (tool development), [email protected]

Caroline Clause (Senior Financial Expert) [email protected]

Documents

TIA-Tool_moderators_guide.pdf

  • Acrobat Document | 2.59MB

TIA-Tool_report-on-work.pdf

  • Acrobat Document | 3.14MB