Parallel Workshop Session: Workshop 1.3 Core -Periphery Challenges

1. Parallel Workshop Session: Workshop 1.3 Core-Periphery Challenges ESPON Internal Seminar 2012 “Territorial Development Opportunities in Europe and its Neighbourhood Fostering Global Competitiveness”

2. Introduction Presentation of Project Results I • Main territorial trends or observations in relation to “territorial imbalances, regional disparities, polycentric development, resources efficiency” • Influence of developments in Europe´s neighborhood on the territorial development in Europe and vice-versa • Opportunities and challenges for Europe and its neighbourhood for increasing competitiveness through further cooperation and integration Coffee/Tea Break Presentation of Project Results II Policy Statement Plenary Discussion Concluding Statement Structure of Workshop Session

3. At the end of the 1960’s, the world was characterised by a clear distinction between a small number of countries with high technology (USA, Northwest Europe, Japan) and a countries characterized by export of primary products. By the beginning of the 21st century, there was a growing difference between the group of countries that export energy or mineral resources and the industrialised countries. In Europe the EU has integrated new Member States into its economy: it has become stronger itself instead of seeing neighbours developing into new global players. At the same time, there are growing international players in the neighbourhood of the EU, notably Russia, Turkey, Tunisia, and Morocco. Stimulus map Countries´s profiles for trade exports, 1967-2006

4. Workshop 1.3 – key questions for ESPON projects What are the main territorial trends or observations from the project - for Europe, its regions and cities - in relation to “territorial imbalances, regional disparities, polycentric development, resources efficiency”? 2. How do developments in Europe´s neighborhood influence the territorial development in Europe and vice-versa? 3. What opportunities and challenges exists for Europe and its neighbourhood for increasing competitiveness through further cooperation and integration?

5. What are the main territorial trends or observations from the project - for Europe, its regions and cities - in relation to “territorial imbalances, regional disparities, polycentric development, resources efficiency”?

6. Parallel Workshop Session: Workshop 1.3 Core-Periphery Challenges GEOSPECS Experiences Geographic Specificities and Development Potentials in Europe ESPON Internal Seminar 2012 “Territorial Development Opportunities in Europe and its Neighbourhood Fostering Global Competitiveness”

7. Development opportunities and challengesin specific types of territories: • Mountain areas, • Islands, • Sparsely populated areas, • Outermost regions, • Border regions, • Coastal areas, • Inner peripheries. GEOSPECS categories GEOSPECS categories

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13. Parallel Workshop Session: Workshop 1.3 Core-Periphery Challenges GREECO Experiences Regional Potential for a Greener Economy ESPON Internal Seminar 2012 “Territorial Development Opportunities in Europe and its Neighbourhood Fostering Global Competitiveness”

14. Main territorial trends in relation to “territorial imbalances, regional disparities, polycentric development, and resources efficiency”? GREECO The challenge of ressource accessibility The challenge of path-dependency The challenge of Catching up The challenge of moving in the right direction

15. Main territorial trends in relation to “territorial imbalances, regional disparities, polycentric development, and resources efficiency”? GREECO The challenge of ressource accessibility The challenge of path-dependency The challenge of Catching up The challenge of moving in the right direction

16. Main territorial trends in relation to “territorial imbalances, regional disparities, polycentric development, and resources efficiency”? GREECO The challenge of ressource accessibility The challenge of path-dependency The challenge of Catching up The challenge of moving in the right direction

17. Delinking energy consumption from employment growth in Europe. Main territorial trends in relation to “territorial imbalances, regional disparities, polycentric development, and resources efficiency”? GREECO The challenge of ressource accessibility The challenge of path-dependency The challenge of Catching up The challenge of moving in the right direction

18. Delinking energy consumption from employment growth in Europe. Main territorial trends in relation to “territorial imbalances, regional disparities, polycentric development, and resources efficiency”? GREECO The challenge of ressource accessibility The challenge of path-dependency The challenge of Catching up The challenge of moving in the right direction

19. Parallel Workshop Session: Workshop 1.3 Core-Periphery Challenges SIESTA Experiences Spatial Indicators for a Europe 2020 Strategy Territorial Analysis ESPON Internal Seminar 2012 “Territorial Development Opportunities in Europe and its Neighbourhood Fostering Global Competitiveness”

20. What is the EU2020S? What are the headline targets? What is the aggregate index? SIESTA (1-1)

21. Why cluster analysis in SIESTA? The ‘two blocks’: implications in terms of territorial imbalances in the EU SIESTA (1-2)

22. Parallel Workshop Session: Workshop 1.3 Core-Periphery Challenges BSR-TeMo Experiences Territorial Monitoring for the Baltic Sea Region ESPON Internal Seminar 2012 “Territorial Development Opportunities in Europe and its Neighbourhood Fostering Global Competitiveness”

23. What are the main territorial trends or observations from your project - for Europe, its regions and cities - in relation to “territorial imbalances, regional disparities, polycentric development, resources efficiency”? Since we don’t have any results yet I include the geographical coverage and suggestion of indicators – to show what trends we intend to measure (and where). For the Baltic See Region, we know that the 3 divides (North-South, East-West, Urban-rural) are quite important and we hope to assess to what extent these impact on the development of the macro region. We will also asses the disparities within the BSR and asses trends in “territorial development/cohesion”. We will also focus on disparities across boarders to Russia and Belarus and look at differences within the group of boarder regions. BSR-TeMo

24. BSR-TeMo - Coverage and scale

26. 2.How do developments in Europe´s neighborhood influence the territorial development in Europe and vice-versa?

27. Birth mortality: Stronger gradients along external borders GEOSPECS - Neighbourhood: borders of Europe

28. Employment rates: More complex picture GEOSPECS - Neighbourhood: borders of Europe

29. GEOSPECS - Neighbourhood of Outermost regions

30. 66% of exports go to the European Union  Limited trade relations with neighbouring countries GEOSPECS - Neighbourhood of Outermost regions

31. GDP is over 5 times higherthan in the most developedneighbouring countries GEOSPECS - Neighbourhood of Outermost regions

32. GREECO 2. The influence of Europe´s neighborhood on the territorial development in Europe Conflict of interests Demographic challenges

33. Based on available data at the regional scale for those non-EU countries that have been analysed by SIESTA, the ‘North-South’ EU2020S-gap persists, and even widens, when the neighbourhood countries are considered In general, the neighbourhood policy has been focused on economic issues, with a limited consideration of environmental and social agendas. The EU2020S as a possible framework of reference in neighbourhood action? SIESTA (2)

34. 2. How do developments in Europe´s neighbourhood influence the territorial development in Europe and vice-versa? Obviously economic development, social situation, infrastructure, environmental development, for Russia and Belarus, will impact not only neighboring regions but the entire Europe. However, the immediate impacts are of higher importance for the BSR since the position (geographically as well as traditionally) as ‘gateway’ region to Russia is a huge potential. This includes access to markets (imports as well as exports), transboundary environmental problems and crime, better boarder infrastructure for business and tourism. Migrations is also important (in-migration into Europe, and where migration flows go to). Also the question of new transport infrastructures or new communication and cooperation channels need to be established (for instance, towards St. Petersburg). BSR-TeMo

35. 3. What opportunities and challenges exists for Europe and its neighbourhood for increasing competitiveness through further cooperation and integration?

36. 3. Opportunities and challenges for Europe and its neighbourhood for increasing competitiveness through further cooperation and integration GREECO Integrating different components of Green Growth Interacting across borders Specializing

37. A comprehensive development of the EU2020S Measuring progress and delivering policies at the national scale covering all the issues, thus avoiding the persistent omission of inclusive growth Regional strategies for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth SIESTA (3) Inclusive Growth SmartGrowth EU 2020S SustainableGrowth

38. 3. What opportunities and challenges exists for Europe and its neighbourhood for increasing competitiveness through further cooperation and integration? The existence of the BSR macro region is in itself an opportunity for development based on further integration (e.g. labour markets) and coordination in this region. Challenges include reducing “red rape” in simplifying business across the EU/Russian/Belarusian territories and boarder crossings. There are already some cooperation going on to simplify the interaction across boarder regions in particular the Baltic countries and Finland. VASAB is an opportunity in itself in that it is a platform for cooperation with Russia and Belarus, it is cooperation at ministerial level which adds weight to the network. Also the fact that they can agree on a common strategy for the BSR shows that it is a grounding basis for future work. Our project adds to understanding the integration in the region as we intend to monitor the entire BSR including these countries as well. BSR-TeMo

39. Stimulus map Countries´s profiles for trade exports, 1967-2006