European Macro-Regions

Andrea Gramillanot33

ESPON Seminar“Territories Acting for Economic

Growth:Using territorial evidence to meet

challenges towards 2020”

Inspire policy making by territorial evidence

1. Are there certain standards that can be found in all macro regions? What are unique conditions for the European macro-regions?

2. How do macro-regions take on-board European and global development dynamics?

3. How could continuous territorial evidence and tailor-made benchmarking support efficient implementation and investments?

Key questions

Outline of the presentation

3) Conclusions: opportunities for ESPON development

2) The experience of ESPON TerrEvi project

a)TerrEvi b) Evidences on territorial dynamics and governance

1) Macro-regionalisation process in Europe

a) Macro-regions at a glance b) Common standards c) Uniqueness

1) Macro-regionalisation process in Europe

a) Macro regions at a glance• Focus: institutional macro-regionalisation process

• Purpose: Promoting place-based and coordinated Cohesion policy Promoting multi-level governance Strengthening cooperation with neighboring countries(foreign policy) Reducing regional disparities and promoting territorial cohesion Increasing value for money (effectiveness)

1) Macro-regionalisation process in Europe

Front-runners (under implementation)

• Baltic Sea region • Danube region

New (definition of the strategy)

• Adriatic Ionian region (2014)

• Alpine region (2015)

Future (under consideration)

• Carpathian region, Black sea, Atlantic Arc, Mediterranean Sea, North Sea

b) Common standards to all macro-regions

1) Macro-regionalisation process in Europe

Features Challenges

1 Sharing common territories and functional characteristics (“soft spaces”)

-“Transforming” the common natural resource (sea, river) from being a barrier in a bridge- Given financial allocation of the programmes

2 Based on multi-level governance (vertical and horizontal coordination)

Complexity of multi-level governance procedures (a lot of cooperation spaces)

European and global dynamics?

1) Macro-regionalisation process in Europe

Strategy Baltic Sea

Danube region

EUSAIR Alpine region

Innovation and blue growth X X X

Prosperity X X

Quality of environment X X X X

Accessibility and connection X X X

Attractiveness and tourism X X

Social and territorial disparities

X

Safety and security X

Education policy X

c) Unique conditions for European Macro-regions 1) European and global development dynamics

1) Macro-regionalisation process in Europe

c) Unique conditions for European Macro-regions 1) European and global development dynamics

Sustainable management of the resources and exploitation

of the growth potential (attractiveness + accessibility)

c) Unique conditions for European Macro-regions

2) The specificity of the natural environment (EUSAIR, DANUBE)

3) Cooperation background (EUSAIR, BALTIC)

4) EU and non-EU members

1) Macro-regionalisation process in Europe

2) The experience of ESPON TerrEvi project

2) The experience of ESPON TerrEvi project

Territorial needs

identification

Strategy justification

Project selection

Monitoring and

evaluation

Stakeholders’ consultation

Why question of the project: Can ESPON evidence be relevant (usable and useful) for Programming?

a)TerrEvi project

a)TerrEvi project

Main evaluation activities and tools

1. Various tools: Maps (Zoom – in and zoom-out), Box-plots and Traffic lights, Table with list of relevant ESPON readings

2. Products • 66 factsheets (53 CBC and 13 TNC programmes)• 10 Territorial Evidence Packs

3. Dissemination activities (website, app, social network and 5 local events)

2) The experience of ESPON TerrEvi project

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What can be used for “Macro-regions”???

2) The experience of ESPON TerrEvi project

TerrEvi products

Factsheet Evidence Pack Diss. report

Macro-region

Baltic Sea region X (Baltic Sea)

Danube region X (SE Europe) X (SE Europe)

Alpine region X (Alpine Space) X (Alpine Space)

EUSAIR X (SE Europe) X (SE Europe) Thematic paper + t33 paper (2012)

North Sea X (North Sea) X (North Sea)

Mediterranean Sea X (Med)

Atlantic Arc X (Atlantic Area) X (Atlantic Area)

Multi-level governance Thematic paper

b) Evidences on territorial dynamics and governance

3) Conclusions: opportunities for ESPON development

- Results of TerrEvi project on the use of ESPON Evidence

- Macro-regions: additional challenges (e.g. non- Eu countries)

3) Conclusions: opportunities for ESPON development

Territorial needs identification

Strategy justification

Stakeholders’ involvement

Project selection

Monitoring and evaluation system

ESPON is used

ESPON could be used ?

ESPON is difficult to be used

3) Conclusions: opportunities for ESPON development

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• Data collection (over time and at lower territorial level) and integration with other sources

Challenge of data

availability

• Identifying a sample of (result) indicators

Limited data

usability

ESPON for benchmarking

across programmes

ESPON support for policy

implementation and evaluation

(“name & shame”)

Macro-regions

Cohesion policy maker perspective

3) Conclusions: opportunities for ESPON development

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• Involving stakeholders and citizens (social networks) in discussing ESPON evidence

Data “accessibility”

• Involving stakeholders (out of the ESPON community) in discussing ESPON evidence (e.g. innovation)

Need of a broader focus

ESPON as a tool of policy

accountability and awareness

ESPON as a reference beyond

Cohesion policy

Outside Cohesion policy perspective

Thanks a lot for your attention

Andrea Gramillano

a.gramillano@t33.it