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Policy Briefs | 8 April 2024
Under the guidance of the Spanish Presidency of the Council of the European Union, attention is turning towards the pivotal role of small and medium sized cities in fostering balanced territorial d
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Scientific Reports | 6 March 2024
Are you a policymaker in the Alpine region? The final report "ESPON Territorial Studies: Quality of Life in the Alpine Area" is not to be missed: It provides valuable data, m
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Policy Briefs | 4 March 2024
The policy brief emphasizes the critical role of small and medium-sized towns and cities in achieving balanced territorial development and fostering economic, social, and territorial cohesion. S
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Policy Briefs | 19 October 2023
A working paper and a Policy brief that were jointly developed by ESPON with Nordregio and the Swedish Presidency of the Council of the EU (for the first semester of 2023), focusing on two of the presidency’s priorities: the green and energy transitions.
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Policy Briefs | 12 January 2023
At the European level, there is a raising interest in developing a common, operational definition of functional rural areas.
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Policy Briefs | 5 December 2022
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.
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Policy Briefs | 27 September 2022
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.
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Policy Briefs | 27 July 2022
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
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Policy Briefs | 27 May 2022
Is there a pattern of diffusion for COVID-19 across European regions, and how has this evolved since its onset?
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Policy Briefs | 27 May 2022
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
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Policy Briefs | 27 May 2022
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
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Policy Briefs | 14 February 2022
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.