Brussels, 30 September 2013 - This workshop is jointly organised by ESPON, the Mission of Norway to the EU, West and South Norway Regional Offices in Brussels. The territorial dimension of the Europe 2020 Strategy and contribution of regions to reach its headline targets will be addressed.

Territorial Observation 8 explores the diversity of maritime areas and focuses on land‑sea interactions, including the role of the maritime economy, the land‑sea flows and the environmental pressures. The potentials for maritime development are not equally distributed across all parts of Europe.

Call for Proposals for Transnational Networking Activities by the ESPON Contact Points is now open. The available budget is 700.000,00 €. The application deadline is 18 October 2013.

TU Delft, Netherlands - 16 September 2013The North Sea STAR project invites stakeholders from the North Sea Region for a interactive workshop "Energy and the North Sea Region" which will focus on energy policy scenarios for the North Sea region up to 2050 and explore how these can be addressed through the NSR Operational Programme for 2014-2020. 

Luxembourg, 12-13 September 2013ESPON invites for a Scientific Conference on "Science in support of European Territorial Development and Cohesion" to discuss concepts, methodologies, indicators, tools, maps and models developed within the ESPON projects and the European scientific research community in the field of territorial development and cohesion. Registration is open

ESPON publishes today its 2012 Annual Report which provides an overview of the major achievements and activities performed by ESPON in its tenth year of existence.

Interim Report of ESPON Atlas on European Territorial Structures and Dynamics

The Call for Tender “ESPON Update of Maps (2011-2014) - Travel time matrices on road, rail, air, and multimodal for 2001, 2006, 2011, 2014” is open. Deadline for requesting the documentation is 6 September 2013.

The Call for Tender “ESPON Tools (2011-2014) - TIA Web application” is open. Deadline for requesting the documentation is 6 September 2013.

Data Navigator offers an easy access to regional statistical data sources. Users have the opportunity to search for data sources by country, theme and territorial scale or making use of an open search function.