1. Plenary session Monitoring and Benchmarking the European Territory
ESPON Internal Seminar 2013
“Territorial Evidence for Cohesion Policy
and Territorial Agenda 2020”
Plenary session
Monitoring and Benchmarking the European Territory

2. Purpose of the session
Discuss the usefulness of ESPON results and tools for policy makers at various geographical levels in the context of Cohesion Policy and the Territorial Agenda 2020.
Identify additional needs and expectations from policy makers on territorial monitoring and benchmarking from ESPON.

3. Programme 9h10 Welcome and introduction
9h15 Usefulness of ESPON results and tools for policy makers by ESPON project teams (10 min each):
M4D, Claude Grasland
ETMS, Efrain
BSR-TeMo, Gunnar Lindberg
CITYBENCH, Eduardo Dias
10h00 Statements from policy makers
Graeme Purves, Lead stakeholder KITCASP
Odd Godal, ESPON MC Norway and stakeholder in BSR-TeMo
Anneloes van Noordt, ESPON MC Belgium (Flanders)
10h25 Conclusions

4. Statements from policy makers on the following questions:
How much the ESPON tools can support you?
Give some examples on how do you intend to use or are already using ESPON evidence and ESPON tools?
What are your concrete needs/expectations in relation to the development of ESPON tools and ESPON territorial monitoring in the future?