1. 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

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

3. 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

4. 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.

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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