1. Tailor made reports with the latest news from
ESPON projects for specific types of territories
Marjan van Herwijnen
ESPON EGTC
Eurostat, 17 October 2017

3. Key messages

4. Think functional
Functional areas of different size and character shape territorial development in Europe:
Functional urban regions
Functional rural regions
Functional urban-rural partnerships
Cross-border regions
Transnational / macro-regions
Europe
Europe and its neighbourhoods
Recommendation:
Base territorial cooperation on functional areas

5. European disintegration has no winners
Modeling exercise using:
Increased waiting times at EU internal and external borders
Increased political and cultural borders between countries in Europe
Results:
Reductions in economic growth in all regions

6. European disintegration has no winners
Modeling exercise using:
Increased waiting times at EU internal and external borders
Increased political and cultural borders between countries in Europe
Results:
Reductions in economic growth in all regions
Many lagging regions will face stronger reductions

7. Territorial evidence

8. Applied Research and analyses (SO1)
Territorial Reference
Framework towards 2050
Circular economy
Youth unemployment
Green infrastructures
Territories with
geographical
specificities
Financial instruments
Flows of
migrants
and
refugees
Employment
Inner Peripheries
Low-carbon economy
Spatial Planning and
Territorial Governance
SMEs
Territorial Foresight
World in Europe
Applied Research projects …
respond to policy needs and focus on key priorities for territorial development,
such as priority themes of
the Europe 2020 Strategy,
the Investment Plan for Europe,
the Cohesion Policy and
the Territorial Agenda 2020

9. SO1 – Employment
Scope
Exploring the current dynamics within Europe’s regions regarding movements of people and employment
Finding location preferences of new employment creation
Developing key policy lessons for Cohesion Policy
Resulting data
Typology for EU regions with respect to:
labour market conditions,
population and migration dynamics,
knowledge economy potential,
context indicators

10. SO1 – Employment
Regional classification
pre-crisis
( )

11. SO1 – Employment
Regional classification
post-crisis
( )

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