At the European level, there is a raising interest in developing a common, operational definition of functional rural areas.

ESPON observes that some regional public authorities demonstrate entrepreneurial behaviour when pursuing social and environmental benefits for their communities. In innovation-scarce environment, they connect temporarily with private-sector  innovators from regions with higher potential for societal knowhow flow, adopt external knowhow and ‘pollinate’ their regional markets with new opportunities. These opportunities are discovered by local firms, who in turn respond with actions adding societal value in regional markets.

Article 174 of the TFEU states that: '’the Union shall aim at reducing disparities between the levels of development of the various regions and the backwardness of the least favoured regions.

La plupart des études scientifiques réalisées depuis l’apparition du COVID-19 ont montré que les régions qui ont été le plus longtemps soumises à des mesures strictes de confinement ont été sociale

Is there a pattern of diffusion for COVID-19 across European regions, and how has this evolved since its onset?

This policy brief is about soft territorial cooperation and how ESPON can support collaborative processes from stakeholders’ demands with schematic representations of territories and governance set

The ‘Megaregion Eurodelta’, a spatial synergy formed by the Northwest European metropolitan regions in the Netherlands, North Rhine-Westphalia, Flanders, Brussels and Northwest France, is a global

Building on the experience gained in the Circter project, this policy brief addresses and illustrates how the regulations and instruments available, such as those related to public procurement and spatial planning, can be used to facilitate the transition towards a circular economy. And provides food for thought for the 2021–27 cohesion policy programming period by highlighting policy priorities for regional development from a circular economy perspective.

The pandemic has shown that the continuation of life during the pandemic requires robust digital public services throughout the Member States and the use of advanced technologies to enhance public

This working paper aims at Territorial Cooperation Pro­grammes (ETC) and provides information on indicator selection and assessment in terms of the suitability and measurability of indicators, prox

Since 2000, approximately 250 football fields of land (180 ha) have been converted to urban use in Europe every day.

Since the very beginning, cities have been not only a place of trade but also a place of production.