ESPON New Evidence on Smart, Sustainable and Inclusive Territories

How can place based actions contribute to Europe’s recovery from the financial and economic crisis that struck in 2008?

What concrete measures by regions and cities can support the Europe 2020 Strategy and a smart, sustainable and inclusive growth path?

ESPON sets the scene for a discussion through its First Synthesis Report, released on 27 October, which analyses development across 31 countries.

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Flows are essential for Central Europe

Press Releases | November 9, 2021

Significant discrepancies are sizable between the regions of the Interreg Central Europe (CE)[1]
Territorial issues must be at the heart of public policies

Press Releases | June 16, 2021

– that was the message João Pedro Matos Fernandes, Minister of Environment and Climate Action delivered in his message to the ESPON online debate on the transition and transformation of rural areas. The event, titled “Transition and transformation for rural areas” was part of the ESPON week that is organized together with the Portuguese Presidency of the Council of the EU and was held in a hybrid form -with some participants online and others in the studio in Lisbon.
Democracy can be a game changer for business development in EU’s external border regions

Press Releases | April 16, 2021

Being peripheral in their own countries the EU eastern external border regions face particular development challenges and less entrepreneurship than in other parts of the same country.