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EU Territorial Development: Interim Social Study Report

Explore social aspects of EU territorial dynamics, including trends, disparities, and impacts, in this preparatory study. Analyze key challenges, propose indicators, and provide scientific insights.

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EU Territorial Development: Interim Social Study Report

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  1. ESPON 1.4.2 / Social Preparatory Study on Social Aspects of EU Territorial Development Status: Interim Report Erich Dallhammer (ÖIR)

  2. Content of the Presentation Preparatory Study on Social Aspects of EU Territorial Development Interim Report • Background • Overview Methodology • Interim Results • Outlook

  3. The political background:Social issues in European strategic documents • Lisbon/Gothenburg Agenda: • “become the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world” • “sustainable economic growth with more and better jobs and greater social cohesion” • Council of Europe: • social cohesion should be seen as “one of the foremost needs of the wider Europe … and essential complement to the promotion of human rights and dignity” • key priorities of Strategy for Social Cohesion: • “A better provision and access to social services, employment, housing, education and training”

  4. Framework for ESPON 1.4.2 according to Terms of Reference • 1.4.2 is a preparatory study for a ESPON applied research project to be financed in the next programming period • To explore the main elements of social aspects of territorial dynamics displaying trends and disparities on NUTS 3 level • To provide scientific information and guidance, to implement a sound spatial analysis of social patterns, trends, impacts and dynamics • Taking into account • key challenges / problems • existing research works and policies • concepts, indicators • To make proposals for indicators on territorial contexts

  5. Research Background of ESPON 1.4.2 Two-way relationship: ”the social” and ”the territorial” Two approaches reflecting the two-way relationship: • understanding of the territorial impacts of social policies • discussing the impact of social issues on the territorial development Social processes Territorial development

  6. WP 1: Identifying the Issues – The Social Dimension of Space Structuring WP 2: Access to Social Services, SGEIs; Public Transfer WP 3: Employ-ment and Income Distri-bution WP 4: Housing and Terri-torial Develop-ment WP 5: Educa-tion and Training Thematic Surveys Interim report WP 6: Towards an Agenda for Integrating Social Aspects into Territorial Development Conclusions Methodology: Project structure Work Packages

  7. The ESPON 1.4.2 team ÖIR,Austrian Institute for Regional Studies and Spatial Planning(Austria) - WP 3: Employment and Income Distribution Nordregio, Nordic Centre for Spatial Development (Sweden) WP 2: Access to Social Services, Public Transfer MRI, Metropolitan Research Institute (Hungary) WP 4: Housing and Territorial Development CEG, Centro de Estudos Geográficos, Alameda da Universidade (Portugal) WP 5: Education and Training

  8. Methodology: Tasks & Tools Tasks of thematic surveys • Task 1: policy review • Task 2: scientific literature review • Task 3: overview on existing datasets including proposal of relevant indicators • Task 4: “foundation” for future research possibilities Tools • Tool 1: Grid for the collection of data and indicators • Tool 2: Analysis grid for the policy review • Tool 3: Guidelines for the literature review and bibliography • Tool 4: Grid for the selection of relevant indicator sets • Tool 5: Reporting Format for the thematic conclusions

  9. Collection of existing data and indicators describing social issues Policy review Literature review Usability check: Is the indicator usable? Tool 2 Tool 3 indicator “not usable” usability standards no yes List of usable indicators (in existing sources) ad hoc typology Tool 1 Relevance assessmentcomplete picture? Interim report relevance standards demands on content no Proposal of additional indicators yes Mapsand interpretation Set of relevant existing indicators Set of social territorial indicatorsexisting and new further description of core indicators Tool 4 FINAL REPORT Tool 5 Tool 5

  10. Collection of Data and Indicators on social aspects Data quality required • harmonised regional data • available from EU sources • preferably at NUTS 3 level • Covering EU25+2+2 Sources Investigated • Existing ESPON - database (www.espon.lu) • Eurostat database (europa.eu.int/comm/eurostat/) • Urban audit (http://www.urbanaudit.org/index.aspx) • Study programme on European spatial planning(http://www.nordregio.se/spespn/welcome.htm) • OECD (www.oecd.org) • European housing statistics • Several relevant UN-sources

  11. Interim Results: Data and Indicatorsdescribing territoral social issues A huge number (216) of potential indicators found But: • about 80% of the social indicators just exist on national level- e.g. all OECD data, lots of UN-data • Data from Urban Audit are just available for selected cities -> not usable for analysing the EU-territory -> About 30 usable indicators describing regional social issues • Many data on regional level are just available at NUTS2 - just about 1/6 of the usable indicatorsare available at NUTS3 • best database with usable data: ESPON database -> “The regional level is often missing.” -> further research needed

  12. Policy review Tool 2 Analysis Grid for the Policy Review Analysis of the main policy orientation at EU level • current EU policies and strategies (sector policies) • based on existing overviews and comparisons • possibly available in English Two parts (see annex of interim report): • overall view of most important information (table) • short description of main contents and structure of each single policy

  13. Interim Results: Policy Review about social issues overview about 35 relevant policy papers • Social aspects are considered within many policy papers on very different levels - social aspects areimportant But: • Social policies are strongly determined by national interest - difficulty to get a comprehensive picture throughout Europe (employment, social transfers, housing, education, ...) • Some definitions are rather unspecific (e.g. “poverty”) • Interrelationships between the themes analysed exist (e.g. housing - social cohesion) • Due to the organisation of social issues policies on lower (local) level might conflict policies on higher (National /European) levels (e.g. housing) -> further research needed

  14. Outlook: Next steps in ESPON 142 • ESPON 142-Project Meeting on March 15th in Salzburg- problem of missing data on regional level- revealing inter-relationships between the thematic issues- agreement on useful set of potential indicators- definition of further research needed • Production of European maps displaying territorial trends • Preparation of final report, taking into account:- today’s discussion- additional remarks including - final results of the scientific literature review - final results of the policy review- final list of requested indicators and related data- summary of the proposal for future applied research

  15. Outlook: Timetable – Proceedings - Deliverables Coord. meeting Salzburg 2005-02-15 Interim Report 2005-05-31 Final Report Kick Off Vienna

  16. Thank you for your attention

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