ESPON-NORBA Scientific Conference “Nordic and Baltic Regions in a European Development and Policy Context”, Oslo 14 and 15 March 2012.

Why does Europe need ESPON? How to use ESPON? What is the importance of climate change, innovation and knowledge economy, accessibility, metropolitan areas for the successful development of territories, regions and cities? The answers to these questions can be found in the six new videos from ESPON.

ESPON-INTERSTRAT Conference “Positioning urban Scotland in its European context – What can we learn about benchmarking?”, Edinburgh 30 March 2012.  

Report 'Reflections on ESPON results' The Ministry of Employment and Economy and the Ministry of Environment from Finland recently published a report which examines ESPON research projects and findings from a Finnish perspective.

2002–2012: Ten Years of ESPON Throughout 2012 ESPON will celebrate 10 years of operation. ESPON has over the years provided comparable pan-European evidence, analyses and scenarios on territorial dynamics and built up a knowledge and evidence base that help regions, cities and larger territories in deciding on their development.  

The Call for Tenders "ESPON Data Navigator 2012" is open. Deadline for accessing the documentation is 17/02/2012.

ESPON released the publication “Territorial Dynamics in Europe: The Creative Workforce”. The publication focuses on territorial evidence, trends and dynamics of European regions related to the creative workforce.

ESPON releases the final report of EUROISLANDS - The Development of the Islands, European Islands and Cohesion Policy. The final report raises awareness of the specificities and diversity of this specific type of territories and takes into consideration the current policy debate related to the European Cohesion Policy.

The project overview shows the state of progress on 62 projects. The publication presents key facts, thematic scope, policy questions, results envisaged as well as information on timing, budget and transnational project groups. 

Three Calls for Tenders are open: Webservices and IT-Solutions, Data Navigator, Online Map Finder - Content Part. Deadline for accessing the documentation is 28/12/2011.