ESPON Programme (ESPON)

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About

ESPON is an EU funded programme that bridges research with policies, providing territorial analyses, data and maps to support EU development policies –and particularly Cohesion Policy- with facts and evidence and help public authorities to benchmark their region or city and identify new challenges.

Type of service
Advocacy
Capacity building/skilling
Data and knowledge production
Funding
Multi-level governance support
Networking and knowledge sharing
Research, development, innovation
Urban themes covered

Operational topics
Global agendas and policy frameworks
Multi-level governance
Multi-stakeholder approach
Access to funding
Public Procurement
Data collection and analysis
Transfer/Replication
Functional urban areas
Integrated territorial tools
Territorial Impact Assessment
Urban design
Small and medium sized cities
Target audience

Local, regional and national authorities are the main beneficiaries of our results. They can request our services and acquire tailormade studies that include benchmarking, case analyses and policy guidance on the topics of their interest.

ESPON is a unique resource of information for scientists, researchers and students. ESPON has been cited more than 20.000 times in academic publications. At the same time, European universities and research centres are contracted for ESPON studies.

The private sector, journalists and general public can also benefit from our free to use and download content.

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ESPON creates evidence and knowledge. We develop studies based on the needs of European public authorities at all levels. Any local, regional or national authority as well as an EU institution can inform us about policy support needs and become an ESPON stakeholder. Our studies have a territorial focus, which means that our analyses are adjusted to the specificity and needs of the people and the places we are looking at.

The results of these studies are then used in different ways:

Directly feed policy debates at the EU, national, regional and local level

Make the key EU policies, such as the Cohesion Policy, more effective, and boost the implementation of the Territorial Agenda of the EU 2030

Support the priorities of EU presidencies with tailormade research

Inspire policy dialogues at early stages and trigger policy transformation

Help citizens/policymakers to understand how their place (city/regions/area) performs in comparison to other European places.

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