ESPON Open Seminar13-14 June 2012 in Aalborg

New European Territorial Evidence

for development of Regions and Cities

Structure of Intervention

Content

• A wider territorial perspective:

An inevitable component in policy development

• New ESPON Territorial Observation no. 6:

Territorial dynamics of European regions and cities in the global economy

• Upcoming new ESPON evidence and new versions of key tools

An enlarging territorial context

• Today a wider territorial perspective is necessary

• No place can develop in isolation

• Competition is world-wide and no longer a zero-sum-game

World City Network, 2008

A wider territorial perspective is inevitable

Challenges for creating Growth and Cohesion: ‒ Economic downturn and crisis: Asymmetric impact, recovery and

unemployment, young generation, regional diversity, innovation towards green, low carbon economy

‒ Connecting and changing World: New emerging markets, era of new strong world economies (China, India, Brasil, etc.), new trade patterns, gateways, world market integration of regions and cities

‒ Climate change: Diverse impacts, adaptation capability and vulnerability, CO2 reduction, new hazard patterns and territorial options

‒ Demographic changes: Ageing of the population, internal migration flows and external migration pressures, attraction of places

‒ Connectivity and accessibility: Infrastructure deficits, transport increase and saturation, environmentally friendly solutions, world links

‒ Energy challenge: Security of supply, alternative energy sources, fluctuation of energy prices, diversity of regional energy vulnerability

‒ EU enlargement: Geographic integration, territorial imbalances, integration of new territories, their regions and cities

Internet Users in the world, 1999-2009Average annual growth rate

Territorial Observation no.6

Territorial dynamics in Europe:Regions and cities in the global economy

1. Territorial dimensions of Europe in the global economy

−Points for policy consideration

2. Trade between places in the world

3. Territories endowments of human mobility, R&D and human capital

4. European cities in global networks

• Europe is the world hub for transnational business

• Most of the headquarters are located in the core area of Europe (Pentagon)

• More than 57% of employees in European transnational headquarters work here

• Outside this area, many capital cities play important roles

European cities in global networks

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• Asia is now the dominant maritime force

• East Asia is the dominant destination for containers from European ports

• Many smaller harbours are specialised in West Asia

• Volume to other continents is comparatively minor

• More polycentric port pattern possible due to internal multi-modal connectivity

Trade flows of containers, 2006

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Upcoming new ESPON evidence and

new versions of key tools

New Final Results until summer 2013 (1)

10 Applied Research projects: • Land-use, Territorial cooperation, Transport accessibility,

Secondary growth poles, Specific types of territories, Knowledge and Innovation, Globalisation, European seas, Services of general interest and Spatial indicators for EU 2020.

11 Targeted Analyses: • Potentials for rural regions, ESPON and TIA, Cross-border

strategies, Regional integrated strategies, Metropoles in Central Europe, Metropolises (Paris, Berlin, Warsaw), Territorial performance monitoring, Migration in rural regions, Territorial governance, Regional monitoring of R&D, Indicators for territorial cohesion and planning.

2 Transnational Networking Activity projects:• Scales and ESPONTrain

New versions of ESPON tools

ESPON Hyperatlas(March 2011)

New versions of ESPON tools

ESPON Data baseHyperatlas

Currently, the ESPON database contains app. 1250 socio-economic indicators, covering 60 countries in Europe and in the world. The temporal coverage of the data is from 1950 to 2050.

ESPON Database(June 2012)

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