1. Plenary session 3: The EU Urban Agenda and cities’ role in the creation of growth and jobs Urban Poverty: Findings from TiPSE Sabine Weck, ILS Dortmund ESPON Open Seminar 2014 “Opportunities and threats for territorial cohesion: Blue Growth and Urban Poverty”

2. Poverty and Social Exclusion have a strong regional dimension Poverty risk higher in urban areas: Central European countries AT, BE, DE, NL Poverty risk especially high in rural areas in Mediterranean countries, PT, IT; EL, ES, with high poverty levels in their capital cities Growth, Poverty and Exclusion: The Role of Cities_1 Source: ESPON TiPSE Poverty Mapping, based on EU-SILC (NUTS3-level) & ESPON Typologies, CEECs excluded)

3. Economic growth does not automatically deliver social inclusion Cities have an important role in fighting poverty and social exclusion (active inclusion strategies, social and health services, subsidised labour schemes, anti- discrimination policies, integrative area-based initiatives) Effective “local welfare systems” depend on support from higher policy levels: The need for a multi-level approach Impact of the financial and economic crisis on cities: Shrinking labour markets on the one hand, and severe cutbacks of public spending on the other hand, due to austerity measures Growth, Poverty and Exclusion: The Role of Cities_2 TiPSE urban case studies: Porto Athens Dortmund Izmir Botkyrka/Stockholm

4. Unemployment of young highly qualified University education in the context of a shrinking labour market does not protect against exclusion from the labour market Wide-spread feelings of disillusion and resignation, also out-migration Tackling Negative Effects of the Economic Downturn_1 “I have young people here, and when I ask ‘Are you planning to go to university’ they answer ‘For what? There are no jobs for graduates, that is why I directly start working. I will try to get a job … because I cannot see that the investment to go to university could be worth it.’” (Local expert, Porto) Unemployed by age group and education level in Porto, 2011 Source: INE (Census 2011) Source. ESPON TiPSE Case Study Report, Ramos Lobato, 2013

5. Botkyrka, Stockholm High levels of residential ethnic segregation & concentrations of persons with low resources --- In the context of a comprehensive welfare state regime, a regionally booming economy and an immigration-friendly society The Role of Functional and Integrated Responses

6. Active role of the municipality in promoting coherent and integrated local level response Integrating socio-economic with infrastructural measures Evaluation of development projects’ impacts on the local community Actively promoting interculturalism Funding community-outreach activities and citizen-driven projects Source: ESPON TiPSE Case Study Report, Dymén & Reardon, 2013 Photos: M. Reardon, 2013 The Role of Functional and Integrated Responses