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Resituating the local in cohesion and territorial development (RELOCAL)

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2020,

There is an increasing need for developing European Union Cohesion Policy in terms of greater sensitivity towards territorial specificities, more supportive of community-based development and the facilitation of greater civic participation. This also relates to the concern over decreasing identification with the European project among the population. Place-based development, endogenous regional de ...
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Knowledge Alliance for Advanced Urbanism

Start date: Nov 1, 2015, End date: Oct 31, 2018,

European cities are becoming living laboratories where industries carry on pilot projects to experiment new devices, all kind of sensors and online information and communication systems. The involvement of universities and research centres in this process is still limited. The increasing availability of data that comes from city sensors, creates new opportunities not just for monitoring and manage ...
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Mobility Innovations for a New Dawn in Sustainable (European) Transport Systems (MIND-SETS)

Start date: Dec 1, 2014, End date: May 31, 2017,

The Mind-sets project (MS) will make a major contribution to our understanding of mobility in Europe:• How to better understand mobility (to better influence and change it)• How to predict the likely future attitudes to, and patterns of, mobility• What forms of mobility policies, products and services will best meet these future mobility needs The project provides a new approach to understanding m ...
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Strategic high-level transport model (HIGH-TOOL)

Start date: Apr 15, 2013, End date: Feb 14, 2016,

The HIGH-TOOL project aims at developing a free and open high-level strategic transport model to assess economic, social and environmental impacts of transport policy. The HIGH-TOOL model will allow quick scanning of transport policy options by the European Commission (EC). Input and output indicators of the model will be based on policy targets of the White Paper 2011 and the Roadmap for moving t ...
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Forward Looking Analysis of Grand Societal cHallenges and Innovative Policies (FLAGSHIP)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

The objectives of FLAGSHIP are: i) Understanding and assessing the state of the art of forward looking methodologies in relation to Grand Societal Challenges (GSC) and developing tools and modelling frameworks beyond state of the art; ii) Applying an enhanced set of forward looking methods and tools to support EU policies, by analysing reference and alternative scenarios of long-term demographic, ...
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Living in a sustainable world focused on electrified rail (LIVINGRAIL)

Start date: Dec 1, 2012, End date: May 31, 2015,

LivingRAIL will develop scenarios on the state of living style, cultures, mobility and economic activities in Europe by 2050 and explore a vision on the future role of the environmentally friendly, electrified railways within them.LivingRAIL will elaborate prospective and normative scenarios investigating possible evolutions leading to a reduction of the environmental harm of transport and in the ...
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Territorial Scenarios and Visions for Europe (ET2050)

Start date: May 31, 2011, End date: Feb 28, 2015,

Policymakers in the field of territorial development and cohesion are in need of a future oriented and integrated vision on the development of the European territory. Therefore the ESPON Programme started a territorial vision-building process following a participatory process and involving relevant stakeholders at European, national and regional level. This vision has a strategic character that al ...
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Integrated Territorial Analysis of the Neighbourhoods (ITAN)

Start date: Jan 31, 2012, End date: Nov 29, 2014,

The consideration of the territory beyond the EU borders seems to be obvious due to the increasingly global economy, and transboundary challenges such as climate change. This project shall provide necessary territorial evidence highlighting topics of interest for cooperation activities with neighboring regions and their cities that can be picked-up in the territorial agenda of ESPON countries. Pot ...
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European Territorial Monitoring System (ETMS)

Start date: Aug 31, 2012, End date: Sep 29, 2014,

The stronger focus on a territorial dimension in policy highlights the need to create a European Territorial Monitoring System that on a regular basis can provide and promote territorial information and evidence to main target groups on key trends in European regions, specific type of territories, metropolitan regions, cities and towns in relation to the policy aims and priorities of European poli ...
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OPTIMISED CO-MODAL PASSENGER TRANSPORT FOR REDUCING CARBON EMISSIONS (COMPASS)

Start date: Nov 1, 2011, End date: Nov 30, 2013,

"The work to be carried out in COMPASS can build on a substantial body of knowledge on co-modal and intermodal passenger transport already available from past and current projects, in particular KITE, LINK, INTERCONNECT, HERMES, CLOSER, ORIGAMI and USEmobility. From this basis, COMPASS’s specific scientific and technological objectives are:To identify key trends (demographic, societal, economica ...
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European Seas and Territorial Development, Opportunities and Risks (ESaTDOR)

Start date: Aug 31, 2010, End date: Aug 31, 2013,

Europe’s seas have become important in terms of policy making on both European and national level. The exploitation of sea and coastal areas for economic purposes is becoming increasingly important but there are also growing concerns on environmental issues. There have been attempts to replace the existing fragmented approaches to sea management with a more collaborative integrative approach on th ...
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"OPTIMAL REGULATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE FOR GROUND, AIR AND MARITIME INTERFACES" (ORIGAMI)

Start date: Feb 1, 2011, End date: Apr 30, 2013,

"This proposal recognises that effective solutions to existing problems in long-distance door-to-door passenger transport chains require the provision of attractive integrated networks and services and this is likely to require vision and co-operation between stakeholders in the public and private sectors. ORIGAMI will build on the substantial body of knowledge on long-distance passenger transpor ...
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Spatial Indicators for a "Europe 2020" Territorial Analysis (SIESTA)

Start date: May 31, 2011, End date: Mar 31, 2013,

In the Europe 2020 Strategy, launched on 3 March 2010 by the European Commission three key drivers for growth were identified and to be implemented through concrete actions at EU and national levels: •Smart growth – fostering knowledge, innovation, education and digital society •Sustainable growth – making our production more resource efficient while boosting our competitiveness, and •Inclusive gr ...
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PAradigm SHifts Modelling and INnovative Approaches (PASHMINA)

Start date: Nov 1, 2009, End date: Oct 31, 2012,

The project will contribute to the goals of the Call showing that it is possible to better address global changes in a long term time perspective (2030–2050), making a first development of tools – new generations of models and indicators – with enhanced capabilities to take into account the interaction between the economy and the environment, paradigm shifts in the energy-transport-environment nex ...
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TRansport ACCessibility at regional/local scale and patterns in Europe (TRACC)

Start date: Jan 31, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2012,

Dynamic territorial development depends on an optimal combination of access to services and resources. Good accessibility and connectivity is one of the most crucial factors in deciding on a location for economic activities. This leads to the fact that fast, relatively cheap, reliable but also sustainable freight and passenger transport, has become one of the essential prerequisites for the compet ...
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INTERCONNECTION BETWEEN SHORT AND LONG-DISTANCE TRANSPORT NETWORKS (INTERCONNECT)

Start date: Jun 1, 2009, End date: May 31, 2011,

"INTERCONNECT is concerned with the role of local and regional connections in the context of growing importance of interregional passenger journeys in the European Union. Poor interconnectivity among different transport networks and among different scales of modal networks might compromise the objectives of integration of the TEN-T network investments and policy measures. The proposal addresses t ...
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Territorial effects of structural funds in urban areas (Structural Funds)

Start date: Sep 5, 2002, End date: Jun 24, 2007,

Urban issues are dealt with under the Objective 1, 2 and 3 programmes of the Structural Funds. Target regions and groups as well as areas of assistance vary among the programmes and the programming periods. In many cases, urban areas and urban policy have been tackled mainly within Objective 2 programmes in the context of restructuring the industrial base and providing improved services, such as u ...
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Integrated tools for European spatial development (Spatial tools)

Start date: Sep 5, 2002, End date: Feb 25, 2007,

The project comprises: Support to the co-ordination on technical and scientific level of the ESPON 2006 Programme and the projects under measure 1 and 2, including data collection, development of a GIS facility and map-making, thematic coordination preparing for the cross thematic exploitation of integrated results based on all projects prepared under the programme.The work has addressed five leve ...
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Spatial scenarios in relation to the ESDP and EU Cohesion Policy (Scenarios)

Start date: Apr 27, 2004, End date: Feb 12, 2007,

The main objective of the project is to develop spatial scenarios which should on the one hand be prospective, capable of prognostics with reference to a laissez-faire scenario on themes of the ESPON and policy orientations of the ESDP.On the other hand the scenarios should as well be proactive testing alternative objectives and provide insight for recommendations on policy adjustments/changes in ...
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Urban-rural relations in Europe (Urban-rural)

Start date: Sep 5, 2002, End date: Apr 20, 2005,

The future of numerous rural areas is functionally increasingly interlinked with urban development in terms of flows, exchange processes, institutional links and interdependencies. This is obvious in densely populated areas (such as peri-urban zones) undergoing considerable processes of urbanisation. It is also relevant for more sparsely populated rural areas that are under less visible urban infl ...
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Transport services and networks: territorial trends and supply (Transport trends)

Start date: Sep 5, 2002, End date: Apr 20, 2005,

Communication and exchange between cities and territories takes place via infrastructure networks where resources, goods, humans and information are exchanged. Access to those networks is increasingly becoming a crucial factor for territorial development. The accessibility to different parts of the EU territory and its regions is being mapped for different modes of transport, road, rail and air tr ...
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Territorial effects of structural funds (Structural Funds impact)

Start date: Feb 12, 2003, End date: Mar 29, 2004,

The aim of this project was to assess the territorial effects and potential spatial impact of the Structural Funds. The analysis addresses the spatial impacts of Structural Funds with a particular focus on polycentricity and territorial cohesion in Europe.The centre of the Final Report is on the mapping of the Structural Funds and the assessment of their contribution to the aims of spatial develop ...
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