Inspire policy making by territorial evidence ESPON Seminar “Territories Acting for Economic Growth: Using territorial evidence to meet challenges towards 2020”

European Macro-Regions

Andrea Gramillano t33

Key questions

1. Are there certain standards that can be found in all macro regions? What are unique conditions for the European macro-regions?

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?

Outline of the presentation

1) Macro-regionalisation process in Europe a) Macro-regions at a glance b) Common standards c) Uniqueness 2) The experience of ESPON TerrEvi project a)TerrEvi b) Evidences on territorial dynamics and governance 3) Conclusions: opportunities for ESPON development

1) Macro-regionalisation process in Europe

1) Macro-regionalisation process in Europe

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a) Macro regions at a glance Focus:

institutional macro-regionalisation process Front-runners (under implementation) • Baltic Sea region • Danube region New (definition of the strategy) • Adriatic Ionian region (2014) • Alpine region (2015) Future (under consideration) • Carpathian region, Black sea, Atlantic Arc, Mediterranean Sea, North Sea

Purpose:

 Promoting place-based and coordinated Cohesion policy   Promoting multi-level governance Strengthening cooperation with neighboring countries(foreign policy)   Reducing regional disparities and promoting territorial cohesion Increasing value for money (effectiveness)

1) Macro-regionalisation process in Europe b) Common standards to all macro-regions

1 2

Features

Sharing

and common territories characteristics

spaces”)

functional

(“soft Based on

governance multi-level

(vertical horizontal coordination) and

Challenges

“

Transforming

” the common natural resource (sea, river) from being a barrier in a bridge

Given financial

programmes

allocation

of the

Complexity

of

multi-level governance

procedures (a lot of cooperation spaces) European and global dynamics?

1) Macro-regionalisation process in Europe c) Unique conditions for European Macro-regions

 1) European and global development dynamics

Strategy

Innovation and blue growth Prosperity Quality of environment Accessibility and connection Attractiveness and tourism Social and territorial disparities Safety and security Education policy

Baltic Sea

X X X X X X

Danube region EUSAIR

X X X X X X X X

Alpine region

X X X

1) Macro-regionalisation process in Europe c) Unique conditions for European Macro-regions

 1) European and global development dynamics

Sustainable management

of the resources and exploitation of the

growth potential

(attractiveness + accessibility)

1) Macro-regionalisation process in Europe c) Unique conditions for European Macro-regions

 2) The specificity of the natural environment (EUSAIR, DANUBE)  3) Cooperation background (EUSAIR, BALTIC)  4) EU and non-EU members

2) The experience of ESPON TerrEvi project

2) The experience of ESPON TerrEvi project a)TerrEvi project Why question of the project:

(usable and useful) for Can ESPON evidence be relevant

Programming

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Stakeholders’ consultation Territorial needs identification Monitoring and evaluation Strategy justification Project selection

2) The experience of ESPON TerrEvi project a)TerrEvi project

 Main evaluation activities and tools

1. Various tools

: Traffic lights,

Maps

(Zoom – in and zoom-out), Box-plots and

Table with list of relevant ESPON readings 2. Products

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66 factsheets

• (53 CBC and 13 TNC programmes)

10 Territorial Evidence Packs 3.

Dissemination activities

(website, app, social network and 5 local events)

What can be used for “Macro-regions”???

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2) The experience of ESPON TerrEvi project b) Evidences on territorial dynamics and governance TerrEvi products

Baltic Sea region Danube region Factsheet X (Baltic Sea) X (SE Europe) Evidence Pack X (SE Europe) Diss. report Alpine region EUSAIR X (Alpine Space) X (SE Europe) X (Alpine Space) X (SE Europe) Thematic paper + t33 paper (2012) North Sea Mediterranean Sea Atlantic Arc

Multi-level governance

X (North Sea) X (Med) X (Atlantic Area) X (North Sea) X (Atlantic Area) Thematic paper

3) Conclusions: opportunities for ESPON development

3) Conclusions: opportunities for ESPON development

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Results of TerrEvi project on the use of ESPON Evidence

Territorial identification Strategy justification needs Stakeholders’ involvement Project selection Monitoring and evaluation system

ESPON is used

  ESPON could be used  ?

ESPON is difficult to be used   -

Macro-regions: additional challenges

(e.g. non- Eu countries)

3) Conclusions: opportunities for ESPON development

Cohesion policy maker perspective 16 ESPON for benchmarking across programmes ESPON support for policy implementation and evaluation (“name & shame”)

3) Conclusions: opportunities for ESPON development

Outside Cohesion policy perspective ESPON as a tool of policy accountability and awareness ESPON as a reference beyond Cohesion policy 17

Thanks a lot for your attention

Andrea Gramillano [email protected]