ESPON Seminar 4-5 December 2014 in Rome

Aims of the Seminar

Focus

• Themes and integrated approaches that can stimulate territories, regions and cities in contributing to economic growth and jobs, also in the long term

• Priorities of the current Trio of EU Presidency countries

• Inner areas• Towns• Scenarios and Vision 2050

• New ESPON territorial evidence that can inspire policy development

Purpose (1)

• Promote territories as actors for economic growth and the use of integrated territorial strategies.

• Discuss new solutions for re-balancing territorial development trends to the benefit of inner areas lacking access to basic services of general interest.

• Discuss ways of making towns more dynamic, attractive and competitive and more accessible while still maintaining their identity and endogenous characters.

Purpose (2)

• Address the economic and social crisis, regional resilience, poverty and social exclusion, European macro regions as well as new developments of the ESPON toolbox.

• Consider experiences and achievements from transnational capitalisation efforts to promote ESPON territorial evidence in policy development at different levels

• Look ahead towards the future ESPON 2020 Programme and activities of the upcoming EU Presidencies

Programme on 4 December 2014

• Counteracting the crisis: Territories acting for Economic Growth (plenary)

• Investment and Integrated Strategies in supporting Towns and Inner Areas (plenary)

• Inspire Policy Development with Territorial Evidence (ws)

• Building and using Integrated Territorial Strategies

• Inner areas in Europe

• Towns in the European territorial fabric

• New ESPON Territorial Evidence (ws)

• Territorial Vision and Scenarios 2050

• Regional resilience and poverty

• European Macro regions

Programme on 5 December 2014

• Progress on the ESPON Toolbox (plenary)

• European Territorial Monitoring

• Territorial Monitoring in Baltic sea Region

• Big Data

• Territorial Impact Assessment (TIA) Web application

• Outreach and Uptake of European Territorial Evidence (pl)

• Transnational Capitalisation by ESPON on the Road project

• ESPON Atlas

• Next steps of ESPON and EU Presidencies (plenary)

The ESPON 2020 Cooperation Programme

Thank you for your attention

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