Workshop 4 – Global competitiveness of regions based on strong local economies

DeTeC: Detecting territorial potentials and challenges

Lukas Smas, Nordregio, Sweden

ESPON Internal Seminar 2013 “Territorial Evidence for Cohesion Policy 2014-2020

and Territorial Agenda 2020”

• provide good guidance on analytical approaches and methods for detecting territorial potentials and challenges,

• be a source of inspiration for both practitioners and policy makers working with regional policy issues at different territorial levels,

• focus on how to integrate a European perspective in practice and policy making of all European regions and cities.

An ESPON guide

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Territorial approaches

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TA 1: Detecting global and future challenges and potentials of a region

TA 2: Detecting and comparing the territorial performance of a region

TA 3: Detecting functional areas and internal

coherence of a region

TA 4: Detecting current and potential external

linkages of a region

TA 5: Detecting opportunities for

territorial governance of a region

Globalization and regionalisation Regional cohesion and competitiveness

New regional formations

Territorial and relational regions

Territorial governance

Interactive handbook

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• To engage with policy makers and practitioners in the field of regional development and spatial planning at local and regional level

• To evaluate the draft handbook and receive input on how to further develop it into an applicable, concrete and usable e-book

• To identify good examples and practices and illustrative how cities and regions can use ESPON-knowledge for detecting territorial potentials and challenges

Regional laboratories

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Region of Skåne

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Space

Future challenges

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Time

Lead Partner • Nordregio, Nordic Center for Spatial Development, Sweden.

 Project partners• Austrian Institute for Regional Studies and Spatial Planning, Austria.• Stanislaw Leszczycki Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland.

Thank you!

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