1. 7th Progress Report: The regional and urban dimension of Europe 2020
Lewis Dijkstra
Deputy Head of the Analysis Unit
DG for Regional Policy European Commission

2. Main points 10 Factsheets Smart Growth Sustainable Growth
Education
Innovation
Digital Society
Smart cities
Sustainable Growth
Resource efficient regions
Sustainable cities
Inclusive growth
Employment
Poverty and exclusion
Inclusive cities
10 Factsheets
Tertiary education
Early-school leavers
R&D as % of GDP
Patent inventors per inhabitants
Change in GHG emissions outside the Emissions Trading Scheme
Consumption of renewable energy
Employment rate
Unemployment rate
At-risk-of-poverty or exclusion
GDP per head

3. Smart Growth
In regions and cities

4. Tertiary education

5. Early school leavers

6. R&D

7. Digital society Use of public e-Services by residents and firms
People ordering products and services online
High growth of online turnover
High speed internet access: Available everywhere?
Next Generation Access likely to start in cities

8. Patents

9. Urban productivity

10. Big gaps in the east

11. Cities and tertiary educated

12. Sustainable Growth
In regions and cities

13. Effort sharing decision

14. Renewable Energy

15. Urban eco-efficiency

16. Urban eco-efficiency In cities residents and workers tend to
travel shorter distances
use the car less
live in houses/flats which are smaller
Work in buildings that share walls with other buildings
District heating is more efficient
However policies to make cities even more efficient should not push jobs and residents to the outskirts of a city

17. Inclusive growth
In regions and cities

18. Employment: Northwest vs. the rest

19. At risk of poverty and exclusion: South and East

20. Unemployment: impact of the crisis

21. East West Divide on low work

22. East West divide on urban poverty

23. Deprivation in the East

24. Overall: mixed picture

25. GDP per head growth

26. Conclusion Europe 2020 is an ambitious strategy
Requires a different policy mix in countries (National Reform Programmes)
Requires a different policy mix in regions (Cohesion Policy Programmes)
Urban needs differ substantially between countries and cities. Urban deprivation more concentrated in EU-15
Urban opportunities in all MS, but investment needed to remove obstacles to development

27. Thank you for your attention
Questions?