ESPON Internal Seminar 2013
“Territorial Evidence for Cohesion Policy 2014-2020
and Territorial Agenda 2020”
Workshop 3 – Territorial integration in cross-border and
transnational functional regions
ESPON TerrEvi project
Jürgen Pucher, Metis GmbH
the project
ESPON TerrEvi…
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...develops a methodological concept for using (European) territorial
evidence available
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...focuses on producing evidence for Structural Funds programmes
for more strategic, result-oriented programming for the post 2013period
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...therefore delivered 66 factsheets (53 CBC and 13 TNC) and 10
case studies (4 regional, 1 CBC and 5 TNC)
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...project team delivered the draft final report in October 2013
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more attention for…
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...Macroregions and European groupings of territorial cooperation
(EGTC)
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...Macroregions and EGTC can be considered as relevant support
for the use of structural funds (SF) in the field of territorial
cooperation
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...both can make crucial contribution to the Cohesion Policy of the
EU in the next programming period 2014-2020
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more attention for…
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...Macroregions:
• Macroregional strategies follow the principle of “no new money”.
This should lead to a more efficient use of already existing
money (for instance in ETC programmes)
• For the next period the EC aims for the macroregions to
strengthen the consistency of the different funds. The
macroregional strategies could become a strategic/political
project of European regional development
• Territorial challenges do not stop at national and not even at
transnational borders – water pollution as a main starting point
of the Baltic Sea Region
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more attention for…
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...EGTC:
• The draft EC Regulation Proposal on ETC mentions EGTCs as
an important instrument for the ERDF to tackle local problems
• EGTC are considered to be increasingly important for Cohesion
Policy especially wherever they cover regions which are at risk
of being marginalised in economic terms
• EGTC will be legally allowed to manage and implement OPs, not
least as a Managing Authority (MA) of a cooperation OP
• Integrated Territorial Investments with the possibility to combine
actions financed from different ETC strands
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Challenges and additional territorial evidence
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Lessons learned for Operational Programmes – TerrEvi draft final:
• Programmes need many different sources – incomplete data
sets, insufficient quality etc. are obstacles
• ESPON is of varying degree interesting for programmes –
depends on availability of material
• Information in a wider European context can help programmes
• Territorial evidence should be further harmonised
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Challenges and additional territorial evidence
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Lessons learned for Operational Programmes – TerrEvi draft final:
• European perspective is the main benefit provided by ESPON
• To understand internal differentiations within programme areas
data sets should at least refer to NUT3 level
• Watch out which sources have been used
• Discuss with experts
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