James Medhurst, Project Director Brussels, 11th November, 2004 SRDTOOLS Tools for Evaluating Cohesion Policies for Sustainable Regional Development James Medhurst, Project Director Brussels, 11th November, 2004

European Commission: DG Research in cooperation with DG ECFIN and DG ESTAT   Framework Programme 6 Priority 8.3.1 Task 11 Regio Underpinning European Integration, Sustainable Development, Competitiveness and Trade Policies Specific Targeted Research or Innovation Project   Project period: 1.1.2005 – 31.12.2007 EC contribution: 0.65 M€ 

Aims of the project - 1 1. Build on the ‘four capitals’ model - elaborate the principle linkages and feedback mechanisms, with a view to extending beyond a heuristic framework 2. Clarify the idea of social welfare used by the model - elaborate the nature of SRD objectives, including the influence of multi-level governance and the use of indicators to measure SRD 3. Examine the measurement of trade-offs and critical thresholds - especially that between manufactured capital and natural capital, and between manufactured capital and social capital

Aims of the project - 2 4. Examine and test the application of spatial planning tools - as a means of integrating policy choices 5. Explicitly address the requirement for aggregation & weighting of policy impacts - by testing the deliberation matrix approach in selected regional policy and political contexts 6. Confirm the utility and methods of application of the various evaluation tools - with recommendations to support SRD.

WP1: Research and Workplan Development WP2: Review of the ‘4’ Capitals Model as an WP3: Review of Social Applied Model Welfare & SRD Objectives in EU and MENT Accession Countries WP4: Review of Tradeoffs & Critical Thresholds in EU and WP9: PEER REVIEW Accession Countries WP8: PROJECT MANAGE WP6: Testing of the Deliberation Matrix to WP5: Review and Selected Policy & Testing of Spatial Political Contexts Planning Tools WP7: Confirmation, Recommendation & Dissemination of Tools for SRD

Workshops, Case Studies & Deliverables Three Team Workshops Six Case Studies (UK, FR, DE, ES, CZ, SL, PL) Objectives Trade-offs Evaluation Training Workshops for Decision Makers & Policy Makers Final Report Research Publications

Participants GHK Consulting Ltd (Lead Partner) - UK Policy Studies Institute (PSI) – UK University of Versailles (UVSQ) – FR Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP) – UK Technical University of Darmstadt (TUD) – DE University of Alcala de Henares (UAH) – ES Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Science – CZ Regionalna razvojna agencija Mura d.o.o. – SL Euroreg - University of Warsaw – PL