Open Seminar “ESPON Evidence for Regional Policy-Making” - Contributing to the Europe 2020 Strategy
ESPON invited for a two days Open Seminar on “ESPON Evidence for Regional Policy-Making”. The Seminar was organised in cooperation with the Spanish Presidency of the European Union, and took place in Madrid - Alcalá de Henares on 9 and 10 June 2010.
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The Seminar addressed the use of ESPON results in policy-making in support of competitiveness and cohesion of territories. Its purpose was three-fold:
- Nourish the necessary discussion and understanding of the territorial dimension of the new Europe 2020 Strategy;
- Demonstrate the added value and suggest practical use of European wide ESPON knowledge in policy making, particular at regional level;
- Discuss best practices and room for improvements in disseminating and communicating ESPON project results to policy makers ranging from local/regional level to European level.
Over 200 participants from European Institutions, national governments, research institutions and universities attended the seminar.
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Read more about what happened at the seminar on the next page.
Please find below the programme, the list of participants, the press releases and the presentations made during the event. The conclusions of the Seminar are published in a special report available below.
More photos are available in the next pages.
Should you have questions please do not hesitate to contact the ESPON Coordination Unit at info@espon.eu.
This event was organised within the framework of the ESPON 2013 Capitalisation Strategy
(Actions related to European Seminars and Workshops).
8 June 2010 - Roundtable discussion with key policy makers on the Europe 2020 Strategy
A special roundtable discussion with key policy makers on the Europe 2020 Strategy took place in the morning of the first day. This session focused on understanding the contribution of the diversity of European territories to a smart, sustainable and inclusive growth.
The aim of this session was to target the mindset of the participants and the seminar discussions on new ESPON findings and evidence to potential contributions of different territories, and by doing so to support the further development of EU Cohesion Policy and in particular its territorial cohesion component.
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Parallel Workshops
Based on the first session, detailed discussions in parallel workshops addressed the results of the ESPON Applied Research Projects and Targeted Analyses in relation to the policy questions underlying them. The challenge of these workshops was on the one hand to show experiences for communicating and disseminating project results to regional stakeholders and on the other hand to address specific means to communicate these results.
The audience was also informed about key messages the almost final ESPON projects have delivered to support regional policy makers and stakeholders. This first day finally ended with a runway of new ESPON projects and selected expressions of interest that will lead in to ESPON projects during 2010.
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9 June 2010 – How to use ESPON evidence in policy-making
The morning of the second day was devoted to show the use of ESPON evidence in policy-making through a number of examples. The session started with an example at the EU level and step wise zoomed in to the local level.
Hereafter the parallel workshops continued, also including workshops with the ESPON Database. Finally, the Seminar closed up by giving insights on the further development of the ESPON 2013 Programme, including on data, indicators and typologies related to European Territorial Cohesion.
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More photos are available in the next pages.
Roundtable - The Europe 2020 Strategy:What should be its Territorial Dimension? |
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Roundtable - The Europe 2020 Strategy:
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Appetizers - Presentation of Key results of ESPON Projects |
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Workshops Introduction |
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Interactive Workshop – DEMIFER |
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Interactive Workshop – SS-LR |
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Interactive Workshop – CAEE |
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Interactive Workshop – SURE |
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Interactive Workshop – ReRISK |
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Interactive Workshop – TeDI |
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ESPON Runway café
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Zooming-In – ESPON Evidence in Policy Making |
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Interactive Workshop MetroBorder |
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Interactive Workshop ESPON Database |
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Interactive Workshop ESPON Database |
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Interactive Workshop ESPON Climate |
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Interactive Workshop EDORA |
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Interactive Workshop FOCI |
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Interactive Workshop Euroislands |
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Interactive Workshop ESPON Database |
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Next Steps – Next steps implementing the
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Networking at the Conference Dinner |
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