The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set out the global development agenda until 2030. In doing so, the goals aim at pushing forward environmental sustainability, social inclusion and economic development through
How to engage people online in policy development?
Planning the post-pandemic socio-economic recovery, launching a profound shift towards green development to deal with the impacts of climate change, EU programming post-2020, and the new Action Plan of the
Providing evidence for local territorial strategies post 2020
With the State of the Territory (SOET) report, ESPON provides evidence for regional development strategies post-2020. The SOET report presents territorial findings and highlights policy tools and case studies in
Urban Innovation Actions Survey open until 22 May
The current financial period is coming to an end. At the same time, managing authorities of EU programmes are preparing for the next programming period 2021-2027. Against this background, the
Non-Paper: Recommendations for citizen-centric macro-regional strategies
In November 2019, a group of stakeholders from the macro-regional strategies reached out to the Committee on Regional Development (REGI) of the European Parliament. The aim was to explore areas
Apply now for the 3rd BACID Call for Proposals
The BACID programme aims at strengthening the capacities of local administrations in the non-EU countries of the Western Balkans and Moldova. Against this background, the programme particularly addresses the economic,
Local and regional responses to COVID-19
City and municipal administrations are closest to citizens. Hence, their services and activities are an essential part of crisis response. Currently, we observe the tremendous territorial impact of the COVID-19
Revised EUSDR Action Plan is published
In 2010/2011, the European Council launched the EU Strategy for the Danube Region. Ten years after, the European Commission published a revised Action Plan. Preceding the publication, the EUSDR Presidency
FUNDING ALERT : CEI COVID-19 Extraordinary Call for Proposals
The Central European Initiative (CEI) has launched an Extraordinary Call for Proposals 2020 as a response to the unprecedented pandemic COVID-19. The Call for proposal addresses three areas of intervention:
DG Regio supports citizens involvement with two Pilot Actions
The Partnership Principle is one of the key principles in EU Cohesion Policy. It encourages all EU member states to involve stakeholders at all stages of implementing Cohesion Policy funding.
