1. BSR TeMo/Up-TeMo Gunnar Lindberg NORDREGIO ESPON Seminar “Territories Acting for Economic Growth: Using territorial evidence to meet challenges towards 2020” Inspire policy making by territorial evidence

2. Nordregio (Lead Partner) (also in Up-TeMo) University of Gdansk (also in Up-TeMo) Aalto University (also in Up-TeMo) RRG (also in Up-TeMo) Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization Polish Academy of Sciences BGI Consulting Ltd. Geomedia LLC Project Partners

5. “Need to strengthen a policy oriented territorial analysis Policymakers, stakeholders and practitioners involvement during analysis definition, development and validation” - Graziella Guaragno, Workshop 1.A (yesterday)

6. What we have built Stakeholder driven, policy centered, indicator based, and analytically advanced, monitoring of territorial dev. in the BRS region

8. Added value of TeMo Regional policy context It is operational at NUTS 3/LAU2. Parts of Russia included, and to some extent Belarus We show (one way) to analyse territorial cohesion

9. Indicators… the “never ending story”

11. (1.) The Gini Concentration Ratio (2.) The Atkinson index (3.) The 80/20 ratio (4.) Sigma-convergence (5.) Beta-convergence (6.) The east/west ratio (7.) The south/north ratio (8.) The urban/rural ratio (9.) The non-border/border ratio (10.) The coast/inland ratio Analytical “toolbox” / Complex indicators ”Distribution” ”Convergence” ”Targeted/Territorial”

15. Application of the System Testing of the monitoring system: to establish the functionality of the system by pushing its analytical capacity in a selection of “real life situations”. Investigative areas (topics): ability to handle cross-cutting issues (territorial cohesion); functionality within a pronounced thematic focus (migration); functionality to depict a particular geographic scope (border regions); overall benchmarking ability (BSR benchmarked against the Alpine Space and the North Sea transnational regions).

16. The Principal Divides (1): East-West Between more and less affluent countries. The sharpest divide today can be found within the socio-economic spheres of development. In terms of for instance poverty or health, the BSR displays a substantial variation.

17. Between rural and urban areas: with very few exceptions the rural areas generally occupy the bottom positions regarding most aspects of socio-economic development. The financial crisis also appears to have affected rural migration harder than any other type of regions. And, Some of the most pronounced disparities in GDP/capita can be found between urban/rural areas – rather than between countries. The Principal Divides (3): Urban–Rural

18. Migration: trends 2005-2010

19. Benchmarking

21. Comparison with EU territory

25. Looking forward! “Upholding” TeMo Updating indicators Adding an “urban” dimension Further understanding of stakeholder needs

30. Thank you! http://bsr.espon.eu/opencms/opencms