Economic crisis affects different regions in different ways Now that the immediate crisis in the financial sector has been stabilised it is time to address long-term growth. However, the crisis is affecting different regions in different ways, so regions need to be involved in planning the way forward. These messages were given by Marcos Bonturi, Head of Regional Competitiveness and Governance at the OECD in his address to the ESPON seminar in Prague. Read more…

ESPON Calls Commissioning of ESPON projects delayed until September More... 

Projects More inception reports from the first round of calls are available More...

TIA Progress on Tool for Territorial Impact Assessment and First Maps Vulnerability of European Regions related to Energy More... 

Vacancies The ESPON Coordination Unit is looking for two Experts to join their international team More... 

ESPON UK Network The ESPON UK Network promotes and supports UK involvement in the European Union's ESPON applied research programme. The ESPON UK Network is intended to act as an "open forum" for both researchers and research users who want to share information on UK-relevant developments in both ESPON and related initiatives Download our flyer... 

Why be a member? Keep up to date with ESPON calls and reports; Find out more about spatial analysis and territorial development in Europe; Receive invitation to workshops Join now...

Territorial Cohesion Discussion The Barca Report (by economist Fabrizio Barca) was published last month. See network member Adrian Healy’s summary of it. Read also the paper Portuguese, Slovenian and French EU Presidencies on the Territorial Agenda by Andreas Faludi.

Migration and asylum The Commission has published proposals setting out priorities for EU action over the next five years in the areas of citizenship, justice, security, counter-terrorism, asylum and immigration. The proposals, which will be known as the Stockholm Programme will be adopted by the European Council by the end of the year. Discussion Forum The ESPON UK Network is hosting a migration forum and resources area migration forum and resources area for further debate.

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Author:

ESPON UK Contact Point

Publisher:

The Royal Town Planning Institute

Date:

22-Jun-09

Categories:

Espon 

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