Policy Oriented Panels: Launching new forms of territorial co-operation

1. 2013 Open Seminar 21-22 June 20111 Göllödö, Hungary Policy Oriented Panels: Launching new forms of territorial co-operation Betterevidencebasefor transnational TranSMEC - Transnational support method for European Co-operation Production and testing of “ready-to-use” and “easy-to-read” tools for better communicating, disseminating, monitoring and steering of the INTERREG B NorthWestEuropeProgramme Dorothea Palenberg, blue! advancing european projects

2. ESPON observesandmeasures territorial co-operation INTERREG Implementsandco-ordinates/steers territorial co-operation (projects) in a definedspace Visualisation Mapasaggregatedand multi-layeredresultof a complexprocess Offers a „Catch basin“ forveryspecific territorial co-operationprojectsunder 4 aggregatedthematic ERDF priorities • Productionof • simpler territorial monitoringdataabout • NumberofParticipants • Amountof ERDF spent • ESPON Projects: Productionof • datasets • typologies • indicators • in „spatialplanning“ language/complexity Directuseofmapsforoverlay • Need fortoolsthatare • easy-to-read (for non-planners) • readytouse (forprogrammemanagment) for • ongoinganddynamicsteering, monitoring, communicatinganddisseminatingofprogrammeresults Connection KIT Typologies – NWE participantgroups

3. Howcould ESPON support the new territorial policiesthroughsupportof transnational co-operationprogrammes (INTERREG B (NWE): INTERREG B (NWE) callsfor a multitudeof easy accessiblebackgroundvisualisations in order tobeabletocommunicateandsteerprogrammeperfomance – the INTERREG B programmeprioritiesareoftentooaggregated in order matchwithexisting ESPON research … without proper communication, thereisno proper territorial co-ordinationofpolicies 1 INTERREG B callsfortypologiesandindicators in order tobettersteer transnational co-operation – so far, regional structuraleffectsareamong the mostimportantsuccessindicatorsandcompetewithotherfundingoptions, weneedtobettercommunicate the theaddedvalueof transnational approaches– itseemsthatregionsaremoreresponsiveand open toparticipation, ifproblempressureandawareness – oftenperceived in strong Lisbonperformers – ispresent 2 INTERREG B callsfor territorial evidence in order tobettersteer the programmeconcerninginnovation, but also aboutnew, emergingthemes – e.g. againabout the transnational effect: TranSMECendorsesthatgood „Lisbonperformers“ canusetransnational projectstobedriversforrestructuringandinnovationprocessesduringand after the economiccrisis 3 INTERREG B callsformoredynamicinteractionbetween the programmes – so far, the interactiveperiodsbetween the programmeswhere limited to the INTERREG programmingperiod. In the future, the ICT capacitiesallow a closerlinkagebetween e.g. the registrationofprojectsand the assessmentof territorial effect in veryshortfeedbackloops. 4