ESPON 2013 Programme Info Day on New Calls and Partner Café

1. ESPON 2013 Programme Info Day on New Calls and Partner Café Call for Proposals on Targeted Analyses

2. Priority 2: Targeted Analyses based on User Demand • Objectives • Provide evidence and knowledge based on ESPON results on strengths and weaknesses of regions/larger territories from European perspective, giving regions the option to compare themselves to other regions, thereby finding competitive advantages for development and cooperation • Improve usefulness of ESPON results by testing new, experimental and innovative options • Provide analytical support and evidence based on ESPON results on thematic priorities in cooperation with other SF Programmes • Geographical coverage of projects • More limited than Priority 1 with greater geographical detail • but • Due to transferable character of projects entire ESPON territory benefits

3. Priority 2: Targeted Analyses based on User Demand • A two-step procedure towards targeted analysis • Submission of expressions of interest (EoI) by stakeholders (i.e. public • authorities of EU27+4, partnerships of regions and/or cities). EoIs approved by ESPON MC are basis for development of project specifications => • Call for proposals for targeted analyses mainly addressed to research institutes and universities with the necessary analytical capacity to carry out the analysis. • Specific role of stakeholders in Priority 2 projects • Define content of projects and set up project specifications in cooperation with ESPON CU • Involved in selection of team of experts • Give guidance to targeted analysis (-> Steering Committee) • Apply project results in practice and disseminate results

4. Priority 2: Targeted Analyses based on User Demand • Implementation methodology • Steering Committee guiding the project, involving • Stakeholders • ESPON CU • TPG/team of experts • [Umbrella organisations, other interested stakeholders] • Please note: • For any questions in relation to any of the targeted analyses please contact the ESPON CU directly (not the stakeholders)

5. Call for Proposals on Targeted Analyses • Outputs • Delivery of outputs varies depending on project’s length, usually request for • Inception report • Interim report • Draft final report • Final report • Presentation of project results at certain events are foreseen for all projects (see individual project specifications) • Max. budget foreseen should cover all costs for completing the study, • incl. travel expenses and attendance at meetings • One single proposal will be selected for each of the 8 themes indicated

6. ESPON and Territorial Impact Asessment (EATIA) • Purpose: • Indication of possibilities for implementing TIA at national level / regionally within EU Member States and; • Creation of a knowledge transfer on TIA to the regional / local level in the national spatial planning and territorial development policy contexts of Portugal, Slovenia and the United Kingdom. • Group of Stakeholders: • Department for Communities & Local Government (United Kingdom) • Directorate General for Spatial Planning and Urban Development (Portugal) • The Ministry of the Environment and Spatial Planning, Spatial Planning directorate (Slovenia) Project length: October 2010 – April 2012 Budget: Max. 350.000 €

7. ESPON and Territorial Impact Asessment (EATIA) • Envisaged results: • Analytical track • Overview of existing methods and tools for TIA, including at least: • Evaluation of the existing methods and tools for TIA • Exploration of technical framework conditions (data availability) • Recommendations for implementing TIA in practice • Interactive learning track • Training / workshop aiming at transmission of project findings / knowledge to national learning networks and obtaining end user feedback to the analytical findings.

8. Metropolisation and Polycentric Development in Central Europe (POLYCE) • Purpose: • Creation of a better understanding of the role and territorial position capital cities currently have and can have in the future in the wider macro-regional, European and global territorial context. • Detection of opportunities for sustainable urban development at macro-regional and city-level. • Group of Stakeholders: • City of Vienna (Austria) • City of Bratislava, Municipality of Bratislava (Slovakia) • City of Ljubljana, City administration, Department of spatial planning (Slovenia) • City Development Authority Prague (Czech Republic) • Studio Metropolitana Nonprofit Ltd. (Hungary)

9. Metropolisation and Polycentric Development in Central Europe (POLYCE) • Project length: October 2010 – April 2012 • Budget: Max. 350.000 € Envisaged results: • Description of the characteristics polycentric system Central-Europe • Description of the characteristics, profiles and territorial capital of metropolises • Identification of development opportunities and strategies at metropolitan level and macro-regional level (Danube Strategy) • Indicators for polycentric development at meso and macro level

10. Identifying and Exchanging Best Practice in Developing Regional Integrated Strategies in Europe (RISE) • Identifying and exchanging best practice in developing • Regional Integrated Strategies in Europe • Stakeholder Consortium: • West Midlands in Europe • West Midlands Leaders Board, United Kingdom (lead stakeholder) • Regional Council of Västerbotten, Sweden • Region Zealand, Denmark • Randstad Region Brussels Office, Netherlands • Project Length: • October 2010 – April 2012 • Budget: • Max. € 350.000, including VAT if applicable Richard Tuffs & Sophie Lainé Paul Bayliss Vibe Engel

11. Identifying and Exchanging Best Practice in Developing Regional Integrated Strategies in Europe (RISE) • Key questions: • State of play of the RIS amongst the four RISE regions? • Compatibility between sectoral and territorial policies within a RIS? • How to enhance the integrated nature of regional? • Core indicators to measure the degree of integration of a RIS? • Monitoring and evaluation indicators and methodologies? • Different financing instruments? • Models of stakeholder engagement?

12. Identifying and Exchanging Best Practice in Developing Regional Integrated Strategies in Europe (RISE) • Purpose: • To enhance Europe’s understanding of integrated approaches. • To support regions in applying this new approach. • To analyse more in-depth the following key issues: • Integration • Financing • Monitoring and evaluation • To integrate the results of the above analyses in a new tool: • the RISE Toolkit.

13. Identifying and Exchanging Best Practice in Developing Regional Integrated Strategies in Europe (RISE) • Envisaged core results: • A report on the state of play of the regional integrated strategies of the four RISE regions. • Evidence of the relationship between sectoral and territorial policies on a RIS. • A RISE toolkit combining: • Recommendations • A set of integration indicators • New monitoring and evaluation indicators and methodologies • An overview of financial models • Models of stakeholder engagement • A paper on ‘how to develop a RIS’

14. Territorial Performance Monitoring (TPM) • Purpose: • Better understanding of the European and global challenges (globalisation, climate change, energy, demography,...) that have specific regional consequences and that require regional policy response. • Development of a territorial performance tool that indicates how regions perform in relation to macro-challenges (comparison between similar types of regions) that can be integrated in the regional policy cycle. • Translation of the information obtained by the monitoring tool into more effective policy actions (analytical support for strategy building). • Group of Stakeholders: • Department for Town and Country Planning, Housing Policy and Heritage, the Flemish Government (Belgium) • Government of Catalonia, Ministry of Town and Country Planning (Spain) • Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy of North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany) • Government of Navarra, Department of Housing and Spatial Planning (Spain) • Dublin Regional Authority, Regional Planning Office (Ireland)

15. Territorial Performance Monitoring (TPM) • Project length: October 2010 – April 2012 • Budget: Max. 350.000 € Envisaged results: • A generic methodological frame for future research on monitoring systems looking at specific types of regions. • A monitoring system that encompasses the macro-challenges climate change, globalisation, energy supply and demography and that can be a tool for measuring the regional performance of urban polycentric regions in Europe. • Indicators on the territorial impact of macro-challenges and on the effectiveness of territorial strategies. • New insights on the way macro-challenges translate into regional territorial transformations and how regional policies deal with these challenges. • Ideas, building blocks for scenario development by the stakeholders.