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  • ESPON Blog | 8 November 2022

    Climate change is a major issue that is already producing numerous impacts on society and the environment in Europe today. But how is this situation impacting the competitiveness and cohesion of European regions and of Europe as a whole? Read our storymap with recent evidence from the update of our ESPON CLIMATE project - the results of the project will be also presented on 16 November 2022 during the COP27.

  • ESPON Blog | 5 April 2022

    Different regions of Europe have been affected by the pandemic at different times and to different degrees. During the first three waves of the pandemic, a spatial shift from the European centres to the peripheries took place. 

  • ESPON Blog | 11 March 2022

    While diverse administrative, economic and political events throughout history have had an influence on the movement of people around the world, none of them had a bigger impact on the number of people crossing the European Union’s (EU) eastern border than the current COVID-19 pandemic. But how has this actually fared on tourism, the labour market and student flows?

  • ESPON Blog | 4 March 2022

    Large lake regions are confronted with a challenging situation: while the lake and surrounding areas would benefit from integrated management, they are often shared between regions or countries. Stakeholders from large lake regions have therefore developed a great variety of governance arrangements and initiatives to overcome challenges arising from fragmentation.

  • ESPON Blog | 13 February 2022

    Disconnected from the mainland, urban-maritime regions that are island face different challenges than regions situated on the mainland. This also goes for Malta and Crete, two of the stakeholder regions that were part of the ERMES project. This article discusses the downsides and benefits of insular regions in relation to eco-cluster development.

  • ESPON Blog | 1 February 2022

    Research conducted for ESPON has identified four global trends that will significantly change the way European seaports operate in 10 years from now. These trends will not only influence the seaports themselves but will also provide opportunities and challenges for the urban-maritime region where they are located.

  • Press Releases | 9 November 2021

    Significant discrepancies are sizable between the regions of the Interreg Central Europe (CE)[1]

  • ESPON Blog | 28 September 2021

    Increasing Europe’s competitiveness through innovation stimulates the creation of new jobs. In this context, a more skilled workforce capable of contributing and adjusting to technological developments is needed. But the KE is also a driver of highly skilled migration and the pandemic accelerated the demand for digital skills.

  • Press Releases | 16 June 2021

    – that was the message João Pedro Matos Fernandes, Minister of Environment and Climate Action delivered in his message to the ESPON online debate on the transition and transformation of rural areas. The event, titled “Transition and transformation for rural areas” was part of the ESPON week that is organized together with the Portuguese Presidency of the Council of the EU and was held in a hybrid form -with some participants online and others in the studio in Lisbon.

  • ESPON Blog | 18 May 2021

    The 4.0 technological transformation has an impact on regional labour markets; however, the aggregate impact is difficult to be grasped as it depends on the type of sectors involved (and therefore on the type of transformation), on the type of technology adopted, and on the occupations considered.

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