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EU: ESPON 2013 Programme

/noticias.info/ Open ESPON Seminar “Territorial Challenges and Cooperation in a Wider Europe”

2-3 June 2008 in Portorož (Slovenia)

EU Member States and countries neighbouring the Union will at the ESPON seminar “Territorial Challenges and Cooperation in a Wider Europe” take further steps in understanding and cooperating on territorial development dynamics within Europe. The policy focus is territorial cohesion and a sustainable and balanced development.

Europe is facing major challenges that all affect the territory, its regions and cities, and in diverse ways. The accelerating globalisation, climate change, the increase of energy prices and the ageing of European citizens are among these. One of the aims of the new ESPON 2013 Programme is to promote capitalization and networking on the understanding of European territorial dynamics and the corresponding needs for evidence and information. Peter Mehlbye, Director of the ESPON CU, underlines that the seminar should stimulate a better mutual understanding of these trends, challenges and perspectives facing the EU as well as neighbouring territories and support the use of territorial evidence and information in practical politics.

The Seminar will provide a platform for creating new contacts and synergies enlarging the involvement and networking around territorial development and cohesion. Representatives from responsible authorities monitoring spatial development in countries neighbouring the EU are particularly invited to participate and take an active role.

The seminar is open to all interested participants, policy makers, scientists, practitioners at EU, national, regional and local level, etc.

The online registration for the seminar is open on the ESPON website (http://www.espon.eu/mmp/online/website/content/programme/1455/1779/index_EN.html) until on 22 May 2008.

Note for Editors:

The ESPON 2013 Programme is part-financed by the European Regional Development Fund, the EU Member States and the Partner States Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland. It shall support policy development in relation to the aim of territorial cohesion and a harmonious development of the European territory. ESPON shall support Cohesion Policy development with European wide, comparable information, evidence, analyses and scenarios on framework conditions for the development of regions, cities and larger territories.

In doing so, it shall be facilitating the mobilization of territorial capital and development opportunities, contributing to improving European competitiveness, to the widening and deepening of European territorial cooperation and to a sustainable and balanced development.

On the ESPON website you find detailed information on the ESPON 2013 Programme, www.espon.eu notas_de_prensa_archivo