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ESPON Evidence in a North European Context (ENECON)

Start date: Jan 31, 2012, End date: Mar 30, 2014,

ENECON addresses challenges and opportunities facing territorial development and spatial planning policies and practices, particular to the vast territory of the northern part of Europe. By facilitating the use and capitalization of ESPON evidence, the overall aim is to contribute to make clear the significance of the European perspective on territorial development and cohesion, and especially the ...
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North Sea Star (NSS)

Start date: Sep 30, 2012, End date: Feb 27, 2014,

The North Sea Region faces the same energy challenges as the rest of Europe and transnational cooperation is being used to share knowledge and develop regional responses with the ultimate aim of developing regional energy self-sufficiency. This project aims to assess North Sea Region project results with a view to developing the most effective regional energy responses possible in future operation ...
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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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Services of General Interest (SeGi)

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

Services of general interest traditionally comprehend electronic communications, postal services, electricity, gas, water and transport. Policymakers more recent documents tend to be more comprehensive and also look at labour market services, education, health care, child care, social care, culture or (social) housing. Socio-economic policies much focus on ensuring the provision of services of gen ...
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Brownfield Policy Improvement Task Force (B-TEAM)

Start date: Dec 31, 2009, End date: Dec 30, 2012,

The issue of Brownfields has become a concern in Europe’s urbanised areas as a consequence of the industrial conversion. It is previously used land that has been made available and requires reclamation to a new use.B-Team is a collaborative effort to influence existing and future policies on Brownfields through examples derived from successes and experiences of the partners. The partnership was de ...
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Nordic-Baltic Dialogues on transnational perspectives in spatial planning (NORBA)

Start date: Feb 15, 2010, End date: Dec 30, 2012,

The aim of this project is to facilitate transnational dialogues on spatial planning between policy makers and practitioners, scientists and young academics and students in the Nordic-Baltic countries. Cooperation with Nordic and Baltic organizations dealing with spatial planning issues and territorial cohesion, Vision and Strategies in the Baltic Sea Region (VASAB) and the Nordic Section of the R ...
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North Sea Skills Integration and New Technologies (SKINT)

Start date: Sep 30, 2008, End date: Sep 30, 2012,

The project is focusing on to integrate and create knowledge on different methods to empower water in interdisciplinary urban development and planning processes. The project has significant relevance for national and EU policy evaluation and the project supports the implementation of the Floods Directive (FD) and the Water framework Directive (WFD). The project will develop a SKIN Water portal, wh ...
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Climate Change: Impacts, Costs and Adaptation in the Baltic Sea Region (BaltCICA)

Start date: Dec 31, 2008, End date: Jan 23, 2012,

Climate change was recognized not only in terms of mitigation but also because of the need of adaptation as a major challenge that cannot be solved solely by single actors and territorial restricted actions, but asks for a coordination and support at a higher level. This is highlighted by the EU Green Paper on Adaptation to Climate Change, but also by other documents such as the EC Thematic Strate ...
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ntial of rural regions (PURR)

Start date: Jan 31, 2010, End date: Oct 31, 2011,

ESPON has identified demographic and economic change in peripheral rural regions as an issue of European concern. The ESPON Scenarios project 3.2 showed that a range of external influences will have an impact on these regions, and that innovative actions would be needed. The innovative approaches towards territorial development of such regions are key issues for achieving territorial cohesion. The ...
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Climate Change and Territorial Effects on Regions and Local Economies in Europe (ESPON CLIMATE)

Start date: Feb 28, 2009, End date: Mar 31, 2011,

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has been pivotal in raising awareness on the costs of human inaction and interference with the climate system. The IPCC also indicated the urgency for studies disaggregated to the regional and even local scale. Furthermore, the IPCC identified a strong need for scenarios at regional and local scales to enable appropriate impact assessments. In i ...
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Territorial impacts of European fisheries policy (Fisheries)

Start date: Jul 22, 2004, End date: Nov 30, 2006,

European Fisheries Policy have to deal with internal European matters like preservation of natural resources, access to production areas, social, economic and demographic consequences, and at the same time face the global competition in European markets.The project will investigate changes and ongoing processes affecting European countries and their regions and look into territorial impacts on Eur ...
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Sustainable Historic Towns - Urban Heritage as an Asset of Development (SuHiTo )

Start date: Jan 20, 2003, End date: Jan 19, 2006,

...g practices to include different levels of urban contexts and the dynamics of development. The partners involved are national, regional and local authorities, researchers and professionals in BSR.The Norwegian approach systematised urban heritage analyses via the DIVE (Describe-Interpret-Valuate-Enable) method, which was tested in the towns Røros and Mosjøen. In the town of Ystad in Sweden a type ...
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Spatial effects of demographic trends and migration (Demography)

Start date: Mar 16, 2003, End date: Jan 3, 2006,

Europe is facing major challenges in terms of demographic development. Effects of the demographic changes and ageing of the European population is expected in many spheres of society and is diverse from region to region. Demographic trends approached include natural population trends (births, death, age-structure), migration on large scale and regional/local migration. The latter is of particular ...
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Urban areas as nodes in a polycentric development (Polycentricity)

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

The European urban system is a main territorial structure and the cities are key drivers in the development of regions and larger territories. The specific functionality and potentials of cities are being explored and a typology of the European urban reality developed. The ESDP highlighted the objective of a polycentric development in support of a balanced and harmonious European territory. The pr ...
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