ESPON Calls for Targeted Analyses - Prior information
The ESPON EGTC will tender 4 service contracts for Targeted Analyses:
- Territorial Impact Assessment for Cross-Border Cooperation (TIA CBC)
Lead stakeholder: Joint Secretariat of INTERREG Deutschland-Nederland (DE)
- Maritime spatial planning and land-sea interactions (MSP LSI)
Lead stakeholder: Ministry of Energy, Infrastructure and Digitalization of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (DE)
- Potentials of big data for integrated territorial policy development in the European growth corridors (BIG DATA)
Lead stakeholder: Regional Council of Southwest Finland (FI)
- Improving Urban-Rural connectivity in non-metropolitan regions (URRUC)
Lead stakeholder: Scarborough Borough Council (UK)
ESPON Seminar
Transforming territorial thinking through digitalisation
Tallin, 6 and 7 December 2017
The objective of this ESPON Seminar, which is organised in cooperation with the Estonian Presidency of the EU, is to provide new insights and discuss territorial evidence in policy-making addressing the key topics surrounding current policy debates.
The objective of this ESPON Seminar, which is organised in cooperation with the Estonian Presidency of the EU, is to provide new insights and discuss territorial evidence in policy-making addressing the key topics surrounding current policy debates.
Its main theme is digital transition and how it can tackle challenges and strengthen development potentials of cities and regions across Europe with a particular focus on digitalisation of governance and public services, using digital tools and data in decision making processes.
Furthermore, the Seminar will give insights to the newest ESPON evidence on many of the topics related to the territorial cohesion debates, i.e. demographic development, labour market, economic diversification and resilience, urban-rural linkages, governance and strategy building, territorial cooperation, spatial planning.
In addition, the seminar will open the floor for discussing the possible paths for the territorial future of Europe focusing on the recent and upcoming works of ESPON and the European Commission.
Registration is open until 22 November 2017.
Further information, programme and registration at the ESPON Website.