On 1 July 2020, the European Commission announced its plan to support youth employment.

In the past months, ESPON collected sources and evidence on how national and local actors are reacting to the COVID-19 crisis.

Bilbao approved a plan with more than 50 measures of exceptional nature

In addition to climate mitigation, climate adaptation measures have become increasingly important when addressing the impacts of climate change.

Responses from Luxembourgish municipalities

Stakeholders ask for spatial imaginaries to generate new visions and strategies

Catalonia has a population of 7,727,029 citizens and, since the end of February, around 65,000 cases of coronavirus have been detected.

A workshop aimed at discussing the future of the Baltic Sea Region took place on 5 March 2020 at Nordregio,  in Stockholm.

Age-friendly cities benefit from integrated policies that are developed together with people of all generations. In an age-friendly city, inhabitants of all ages can live a happy life and enjoy a high quality of life at an advanced age. Different ways in which cities can become more age-friendly were researched in the ESPON ACPA Targeted Analysis on age-friendly cities, supporting the WHO Decade of Healthy Ageing.

The impact of the pandemic made borders in Europe visible again, sometimes even within the same country. But interesting examples from the Interreg Central Europe Programme show that transnational cooperation is central for regions and cities to become more resilient and to find common solutions that can benefit citizens all over central Europe, especially when facing an imminent crisis like the pandemic.