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ESPON UK Network Workshop
TARGETING ANALYSIS ON MIGRATION AND ECONOMY
Cliff Hague
(UK ESPON Contact Point)
[email protected]
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Aims of the workshop
• To develop knowledge and
understanding of recent and ongoing ESPON research on
demography and migration;
• To provide peer and practitioner
feedback;
• To develop ideas for proposals for
new targeted analysis.
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ESPON 2008-2013: Inception reports for the
first round of projects
• Cities and urban agglomerations: their
functionality and potentials for European
competitiveness and cooperation
• Development opportunities in different types of
rural areas
• Demographic and migratory flows affecting
European regions and cities
• Climate change and territorial effects on
regions and local economies
• Effects of rising energy prices on regional
competitiveness
• Territorial Impact Assessment of policies.
• ESPON Database
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The first “Targeted Analysis” projects
• The case for agglomeration economies in
Europe
• The development of the islands – European
islands and cohesion policy
• Cross-border polycentric metropolitan regions
• Success for convergence regions’ economies
• Spatial scenarios: new tools for local-regional
territories
• Territorial Diversity.
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Next round Priority 1 topics – tendering late summer
• Attractiveness of regions and cities
• European patterns of land use
• Territorial cooperation in transnational areas and
across internal/external borders
• Accessibility at regional/local scale and patterns in
Europe
• Secondary growth poles
• European perspective on specific types of
territories
• The territorial dimension of innovation and the
knowledge economy
• Continental territorial structures and flows
(globalisation)
• Consumer public services
• Maritime inter-linkages and sea use
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Criteria for Priority 2 Proposals
• A European
perspective
• Transferable
results bringing
added value for a
broader usergroup
•Concrete plan for
implementation of
findings
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Migration
• East to west migration is boosting EU
economy by Euros50 Billion a year, says
a report by the European Commission
(FT 8 May 09).
• 3.8M moved 2004-07: 80% from Poland
and Romania: could be 8.4M by 2020.
• 70% from 2004 accession to UK and
Ireland.
• The economic crisis is slowing migration
but that will change.
• 50% of migration potential currently
realised.
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Trends in Population Development – ESPON 2008
•31 countries up to
2005, with a
combination of NUTS
2 and NUTS 3
regions.
•Europe is getting
older – problems of
labour and services
in some mainly rural
regions.
Net migration development 2001-2005
Population growth is higher in neighbourhood
CLG Research Report 2009
• Main driver of migration is
economic.
•UK likely to be hit harder by
downturn than migrant
source countries.
•Hence international
migration into UK is likely to
slow.
•No regional breakdown
within the UK or source
countries in this report.
•Need better knowledge at
regional scale of drivers and
impacts.