The ESPON Coordination Unit is looking for two trainees for a period of 5 months to join our international team. The deadline for applying for the post is 13 May 2011.

ULYSSES is an experimental and innovative targeted analysis supported by several European border and cross-border areas. The project aims at using ESPON results as a yardstick for decentralised cross-border spatial development planning. More

Discuss with ESPON different perspectives and methodologies that are being used to characterise land use. The event will take place on 24 May. Register now, limited seats available!

Two Calls for Tender are now open: "Updating Maps and Data on Creative Workforce as Bearer of Innovation" and "Online Map Finder". The services requested are explained in the technical and administrative terms and conditions.

New regional, local, urban, neighborhood, world, grid and historical data that can support territorial development analysis at different geographical levels are now available. Find out more!

Targeted Analyses for Stakeholders: Territorial Evidence in Practice ESPON organises its first Conference on 11 May 2011 in Brussels. Discuss with us the use of territorial evidence in practice on the basis of the experiences with Targeted Analyses. Mr. Johannes Hahn, EU Commissioner for Regional Policy, and Mr. Claude Wiseler, Luxembourg Minister for Sustainable Development and Infrastructures will be present. Deadline for registration is 29 April.

The fifth Financial Seminar took place in Geneva on 31 March and 1 April. More than 70 Financial Managers and First Level Controllers attended the event. More

Latest Call for Proposals and Expression of Interest for using ESPON attracted 53 applications from 29 countries involving 285 potential project partners/ stakeholders.

Europe’s seas all face different types of challenges but also have different development opportunities and potentials. The ESPON Applied Research ESaTDOR - European Seas and Territorial Development, Opportunities and Risks – should identify the development perspectives and trends for the different European seas. More

The project shows that cross-border polycentric metropolitan regions are an important emerging phenomenon. This is in particular true for the two case study regions of the so called Greater Region crossing the borders between Luxembourg, France, Germany and Belgium as well as for the Upper Rhine Region crossing the borders between Switzerland, France and Germany. More