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Inspire policy making by territorial evidence
ESPON Seminar
“Territories Acting for Economic Growth:
Using territorial evidence to meet challenges towards 2020”
Workshop 2.C
European Macro Regions
Setting the scene
The development of European macro regions is well underway. The
thematic priorities for the individual macro region have to be related
to the respective territorial specificity and diversity and related
policies. The use of evidence is important for macro regions to
benchmark and capture the European context in their strategies and
programmes.
This workshop will address evidence for territorial cooperation
areas such as European macro regions. An important focus in the
workshop discussions will be on key messages useful for policy
makers in the context of Cohesion Policy 2014-2020 and in policy
development promoting policy orientations of the Europe 2020
Strategy and the Territorial Agenda 2020.
Setting the scene
Questions the presenters should seek to address
1. Are there certain standards that can be found in all macro
regions? What are unique conditions for the European macroregions?
2. How do macro-regions take on-board European and global
development dynamics?
3. How could continuous territorial evidence and tailor-made
benchmarking support efficient implementation and investments?
Indicative running times
16:15
16:25
Welcome and introduction by moderator, Adriana May
Project presentation TerrEvi, Andrea Gramillano(max 20 min)
16:45
EU Strategy for the Alpine Region (EUSALP) – Frithjof Ehm (max
20 min)
17:05
EU Strategy for the Adriatic and Ionian Region (EUSAIR) – Paolo
Rotoni (max 20 min)
17:25
Remark and opening up of discussion by moderator, Adriana May
17:55
Final reflections and closure by moderator, Adriana May