1. ESPON Seminar Portorož, 2-3 June 2008 Volker Schmidt Seiwert, BBR Bonn Data and Maps Covering the Western Balkans Volker Schmidt-Seiwert, BBR Bonn

2. ESPON Seminar Portorož, 2-3 June 2008 Volker Schmidt Seiwert, BBR Bonn ECP Lead Partner: ECP Greece, Urban Environment and Human Resources (UEHR) University Institute, Athens ECP Partners: ECP Slovenia,Ministry of the Environment and Spatial Planning, Office for Spatial Development ECP Germany, Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning (BBR) The expert persons from the Western Balkans countries: Albania: Urban & Spatial Planning Design Studio Bosnia-Herzegovina: Federal Ministry of Physical Planning and Environment, Serbia and Montenegro: Republic Agency for Spatial Planning FYROM: Ministry of Environment and Physical Planning Croatia: Institute of Economics

3. ESPON Seminar Portorož, 2-3 June 2008 Volker Schmidt Seiwert, BBR Bonn Aim of the Project: Integration of the Western Balkan area islandinto the ESPON grey hole

4. ESPON Seminar Portorož, 2-3 June 2008 Volker Schmidt Seiwert, BBR Bonn Main tasks of the project: Availability check of data in the Western Balkan area Selection of a minimum set of core territorial indicators Compatibily with the ESPON territorial indicators Results: Selected ESPON core indicators for the Western Balkans Classification of European regions benchmarking the regions of the Western Balkan in European comparison

5. ESPON Seminar Portorož, 2-3 June 2008 Volker Schmidt Seiwert, BBR Bonn Regional delineation comparable to NUTS not yet appropriate (only Croatia was official Candidate Country at the project running time) Diversity of statistical information due to territorial developments Experiences made Diverse regional delineation in different parts of the same country International comparable economic data available on Dollar basis only Unemployment data on regional level in national definition only Data on population structures and main social information on basis of census data only

6. ESPON Seminar Portorož, 2-3 June 2008 Volker Schmidt Seiwert, BBR Bonn

7. ESPON Seminar Portorož, 2-3 June 2008 Volker Schmidt Seiwert, BBR Bonn Classification of the Regions: Demography

8. ESPON Seminar Portorož, 2-3 June 2008 Volker Schmidt Seiwert, BBR Bonn Demography: Population development

9. ESPON Seminar Portorož, 2-3 June 2008 Volker Schmidt Seiwert, BBR Bonn Classification of the Regions: Economy

10. ESPON Seminar Portorož, 2-3 June 2008 Volker Schmidt Seiwert, BBR Bonn Ecomomy: Develpment of GDP Per capita

11. ESPON Seminar Portorož, 2-3 June 2008 Volker Schmidt Seiwert, BBR Bonn Classification of the Regions: Labour market

12. ESPON Seminar Portorož, 2-3 June 2008 Volker Schmidt Seiwert, BBR Bonn Labour market: Employment rate

13. ESPON Seminar Portorož, 2-3 June 2008 Volker Schmidt Seiwert, BBR Bonn Labour market: Unemployment rate