TPM - Territorial Performance Monitoring

Thematic scope

Territorial development at the regional level is becoming increasingly important for effectively addressing local and regional transformations as well as challenges at the European level. However, knowledge on the specific regional consequences of macro-challenges is limited and appropriate regional planning tools are rare. The Territorial Performance Monitoring (TPM) project focuses on European and global challenges with specific regional consequences: climate change, energy supply, demographic development and globalisation. The aim is to establish knowledge on how territorial impacts of these macro challenges translate at the regional level and how to deal with these challenges effectively. It is considered important to share experiences and to exchange best practices that could be used to improve the effectiveness of how territorial strategies are implemented.

Please read more about the main areas of analysis and main results envisaged.

Stakeholders

• Department for Town and Country Planning, Housing Policy and Heritage, Flemish Government, Belgium (Lead Stakeholder)
• Government of Catalonia, Ministry of Town and Country Planning and Public Works, Spain
• Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
• Government of Navarra, Department of Housing and Spatial Planning, Spain
• Dublin Regional Authority, Regional planning office, Ireland

Lead Partner

Free University of Brussels (BE)

Detailed information on the contracted project team can be found under Transnational Project Groups.

Budget: € 348 987.50

Project’s lifetime: September 2010 – August 2012

Delivery of Reports

Inception Report: 31 January 2011
Interim Report: 29 August 2011
Draft Final Report: 27 February 2012
Final Report: 31 May 2012

Publishing

Reports will be published once they are approved by the ESPON Monitoring Committee

More information

Please contact the Project Expert at the ESPON Coordination Unit:
Sandra DI BIAGGIO, e-mail: sandra.di.biaggio@espon.eu

Main areas of analysis

• Analyzing the case study regions and how the four macro-challenges are tackled.
• Elaboration of a model performance monitoring tool kit in order to assess the performance of regions and to identify factors that can explain why certain regions perform better than others.
• Providing analytical support for strategy building by looking at how experiences can be shared and used into developing more effective territorial policy actions.

Main results envisaged

• A methodological frame for future research on monitoring systems regarding specific types of regions.
• A monitoring territorial performance tool kit, integrating qualitative and quantitative methods that can be used for measuring the regional performance of urban polycentric regions in Europe and ideas on how it can be used to support policy making.
• Indicators offering additional information on the territorial impact of macro-challenges on NUTS 2, 3 and at local scale.
• Insight on how regional territorial strategies deal with macro-challenges.
• Knowledge on regional challenges that are not recognised on a European level and might require further research.