The ESPON EGTC, which is the body responsible for the implementation of the Single Operation within the ESPON 2020 Cooperation Programme, has launched a Call for Tender for Applied Research 'Green infrastructure and ecosystem services'.
Deadline: 5 May 2017 at 10:00.
Deadline: 5 May 2017 at 10:00.
The ESPON Seminar 'Revealing territorial potentials and shaping new policies – Contribution to the post-2020 Cohesion policy debate' will be held in Valletta on the 24-25 May 2017
Deadline to register: Wednesday 10 May 2017 at 15:00.
Deadline to register: Wednesday 10 May 2017 at 15:00.
The Inception Report of COMPASS is now available
In the late 1990’s the European Commission published the ‘EU Compendium on Spatial Planning Systems and Policies’ which covered the 15 EU member states at that time. Since then there have been significant developments in pan-European territorial and cohesion policies.
The ESPON Applied Research activity COMPASS – Comparative Analysis of Territorial Governance and Spatial Planning Systems in Europe, shall answer three main policy questions:
What changes in territorial governance and spatial planning systems and policies can be observed across Europe over the past 15 years? Can these changes be attributed to the influence of macro-level EU directives and policies?
What are best-practices for cross-fertilisation of spatial and territorial development policies with EU Cohesion Policy?
How can national/regional spatial and territorial development policy perspectives be better reflected in Cohesion Policy and other policies at the EU scale?
The lead contractor, TU Delft (NL) and the 24 partners, delivered the Inception Report which provides a description of the conceptual and methodological framework, an overview of qualitative data and other documentary sources to be collected and used.
