Transition & Change
Shaping future policies requires understanding the territorial diversity – key challenges and development perspectives – of different places around Europe within and beyond their administrative boundaries. Furthermore, it is important to formulate policy approaches and implement tools that can help to
- New employment dynamics and Youth unemployment
- Small and medium enterprises, which often have a focus on new technology (ICT)
- Low-carbon economy, that encourages a change to alternative ways of energy
- eHealth, which examines the digitalization in the European health system
- Inner peripheries (ways to change/fight rural depopulation)
- Spatial dynamics and strategic planning in metropolitan areas (SPIMA)
Using a broader perspective, the ESPON project "Possible European Territorial Futures" analyses for all mentioned categories how the future of the European territory could look like, addressing key challenges and opportunities for the future development of cities and regions.
Moreover, an important aspect of the current transition in territorial politics is due to digitalization. Digital tools and solutions are transforming public services (national ones or cross-border public services) and how governments respond to citizens’ needs. A good example