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- Assessment of the adequacy of existing territorial cooperation areas for meeting current challenges of territorial development (e.g. global competitiveness, cohesion, climate change, demographic change) and proposal of potentially more meaningful new cooperation areas throughout Europe.
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- Analysis of the appropriate scale for different domains of transnational territorial cooperation.
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- Identification of the most favourable framework conditions and good governance models for territorial cooperation to be realised and to succeed.
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- Study of the role of infrastructure investment in cooperation programmes
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- Implementation of case studies to analyse in greater detail how mechanisms for decision making are established in different territorial cooperation areas and to assess experiences made as well as the potential transferability of cases of good practice.
Main results envisaged
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- Data on (common) characteristics and critical mass for transnational and cross-border cooperation areas.
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- Indicators offering additional information on the different types of European cooperation areas and new complex indicators, revealing these areas’ development opportunities, their socio-economic situation as well as their competitiveness.
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- Typologies of transnational and cross-border cooperation areas classified by territorial evidence based characteristics, strengths, weaknesses, potentials and challenges.
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- European maps revealing (1) a typology of different (possible) cooperation areas, (2) the current territorial state per possible cooperation area (characteristics, strengths, and weaknesses), (3) territorial potentials and challenges per possible cooperation area.
Lead Partner
Centre for European Regional and Local Studies (EUROREG), University of Warsaw
Detailed information on the contracted project team can be found under Transnational Project Groups.
Sounding Board
Philippe Doucet
Joaquin Farinos Dasi
Budget: € 849 710,00
Project’s lifetime: February 2010 – March 2013
Delivery of Reports
Inception Report: 2 September 2010
Interim Report: 4 April 2011
Draft Final Report: 2 March 2012
Final Report: 1 July 2012
More information
Please contact the Project Expert at the ESPON Coordination Unit:
Marjan VAN HERWIJNEN, e-mail: marjan.vanherwijnen@espon.eu