Researchers, stakeholders and policy-makers from all over Europe gathered in Liège for the Seminar "Crossing Knowledge Frontiers, Serving the Territories". The 2 days event was jointly organised in co-operation with the Belgian Presidency of the EU. More

The Monitoring Committee at its meeting on 15 and 16 November 2010 has decided to launch Call for Proposals and Expression of Interests that will open on January 2011.

ESPON published its Project Overview which presents the ongoing projects by October 2010. The Overview presents for each priority of the Programme some key facts on ongoing projects as well as a glimpse of our intentions in the near future.

ESPON closed its 6th Calls for Proposals on 19 October 2010 with 5 applications. The project proposals involve 12 European countries and 27 partners. All the project themes in the Calls received proposals.

The ESPON Coordination Unit is looking for two trainees for a period of 5 months to join our international team.

A Call for Expression of Interest for the Knowledge Support System (KSS) will open on 23 November 2010. The deadline for submitting Expressions of Interest is 21 January 2011. The pre-announcement is published in the Official Journal of the EU (C 278, 15/10/2010).

ESPON has recently published the third edition of "Territorial Observations”. This latest publication is looking into Trends in Economic Performance of European Regions. The publication, including maps and datasets, is now available.

The Monitoring Committee at its meeting on 30 September 2010 has decided to open a new Call for Expression of Interest for becoming part of the pool of experts in the ESPON Knowledge Support System. The formal pre-announcement will be published at the Official Journal of the EU as well as at the ESPON Website in 2-3 weeks.

Five Applied Research projects, one Targeted Analysis and one Transnational Networking Activity are online now. Find out more about their themes, thematic scope, research areas and project teams.

ESPON invited for an Info Day on New Calls on 8 September 2010 in Brussels. More than 100 participants attended the event. The presentations given during the day are available online.