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Denmark, small and medium sized cities
Case Studies | August 25, 2022Looking for new activities and attractions to maintain vibrant town centres and develop appealing urban areas
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Functional rural areas in Romania
Policy Briefs | January 12, 2023At the European level, there is a raising interest in developing a common, operational definition of functional rural areas.
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Policy Paper: Entrepreneurial Regional Governance: societal innovation beyond spatial frontiers
Policy Briefs | December 5, 2022ESPON 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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MSP-LSI in Estonia
Case Studies | October 14, 2022This report contributes to the Maritime Spatial Planning with two objectives: to undertake an analysis and characterization of the coastal and maritime planning and land-sea interactions from a mul
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Integrated territorial development in lake regions in Europe
Policy Briefs | September 27, 2022Article 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 | 29 May 2020During the European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018, over 23 000 events were organised, reaching more than 12.8 million participants (1).
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Territorial Observations | 28 May 2020As part of the ESPON transnational outreach efforts, ESPON has been working together with the Austrian Institute for Regional Studies ÖIR on the assessment of counterfactual methods against their a
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Territorial Observations | 28 May 2020The paper introduces potential niches for Interreg and NEXT programmes in relation to entrepreneurial development in cross-border and transnational functional areas.
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Case Studies | 20 May 2020Zaragoza is the fifth most populous city in Spain. In 2019 an estimated 21.2% of the total population was 65 years-old and above.
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Case Studies | 20 May 2020The aim of Oslo Municipality is to become a greener, warmer and a more creative city with room for all.