2. The ESPON is growing Full partners
 Hungary, Norway , Slovenia, Switzerland
Observer countries
Czech Republic, Cyprus, Latvia, Malta
And new projects .....

3. Second round projects
Territorial trends of enlargement and beyond for the spatial tissue
Management of natural and technological hazards (climate change)
Management of the natural heritage
Territorial impacts of Structural Funds

4. Third round projects (just started)
Spatial effects of demographic trends and migration
Energy services and networks and territorial impact of EU Energy Policy (new)
Territorial impacts of pre-accession aid (and of applying the Community Aquis)

5. TPG Network up to date

6. The ESPON objectives most relevant
4. Enhacement of the understanding of the spatial dimension of Structural Funds, Cohesion Policy, Community Policies
5. Concrete contribuions and proposals for the territorially relevant decisions
6. Bridge the gap between researchers, administrators and scientists

7. Objectives of the Crete Seminar
To establish a common platform, which allows us creating coherent results and which are genuine ESPON results
To prepare the next wave of interim reports for August 2003, which shall provide preliminary results useful for policy making