1. "Cities' and Regions' Profiles" website
Teodora Brandmuller
Eurostat D2
13-Jul-07

2. (navigation map, simple and advanced search)
Common entry point
(navigation map, simple and advanced search)
City Profiles
Regional Profiles
Regional TGM
City TGM
Oct 2008
"Cities' and Regions' Profiles" website

3. Common entry point
Oct 2008
"Cities' and Regions' Profiles" website

4. Main tasks in the development work managed by Unit D2
Analysing requirements and drafting the functional specifications;
half-day workshop with Unit D2 and other major stakeholders on the potential content
Development, testing and implementation of a prototype;
Fine-tuning, implementation and testing of a final version;
Documentation on the software
Oct 2008
"Cities' and Regions' Profiles" website

5. Planned timetable Kick-off – November 2008
Signature of the contract – End of October 2008 (T)
Kick-off – November 2008
Requirement Analysis – T+ 3 months
First prototype – T+6 months
Oct 2008
"Cities' and Regions' Profiles" website

6. Regional profiles
Oct 2008
"Cities' and Regions' Profiles" website

7. Short textual profiles on NUTS 2 regions
All Member States promised to co-operate
Texts arrived from almost all Member States
Texts arrived from Croatia and Turkey
Oct 2008
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8. Thank you for your attention!
13-Jul-07

9. Stakeholders Stakeholder Type Needs Unit B6 Contributor
Integrate the project into Eurostat Internet Site which is the primary means for the dissemination of statistical data and respect the Commission Internet Publishing rules. Avoid double work.
Unit D2 (Regional Indicators Team and GISCO Team)
Disseminate territorially referenced statistics to encourage the usage and analysis of the statistical information on the European regions and cities. Avoid double work.
Other Eurostat units (thematic units collecting regional data, rural development section, etc)
Suppliers
Data dissemination should be timely and respect the copyright and confidentiality aspects of the data. Metadata should be included. The work "behind the data" should be valorised.
Contractor
Supplier
Contractors are commercially pushed to sell their own products and fulfil the requirements of the contract with the minimum amount of work.
National Statistical Institutes, mapping agencies and other data providers (interregional data producers; etc)
Suppliers and Users
Data dissemination should be timely and respect the copyright and confidentiality aspects of the data. Metadata should be included. The work "behind the data" should be valorised. Conflicting interest may arise if a data producer wishes to sell the data on a profit-oriented basis.
Oct 2008
"Cities' and Regions' Profiles" website

10. Stakeholders Stakeholder Type Needs DG REGIO Users – Policy makers
High quality sub- national level data accessible via interactive interfaces, graph/maps which allow to make individual analysis
Other Commission DGs (AGRI, ENV, TREN, etc.)
Other European Institutions (EESC, COR, ECB etc.)
International organizations (OECD; UN; World Bank; IMF)
Various levels of government (national, regional, local, etc.)
Universities and research institutes
Users – Researchers
Journalists
User
High quality sub- national level data presented via user-defined, easily comprehensible graphs/maps/tables. Preferably including forecasts.
General public
Easily accessible high quality sub- national level data presented via easily comprehensible graphs/maps/tables
Oct 2008
"Cities' and Regions' Profiles" website