ESPON TerrEvi project Jürgen Pucher, Metis GmbH ESPON Internal Seminar 2013 “Territorial Evidence for Cohesion Policy 2014-2020 and Territorial Agenda 2020” Workshop 3 – Territorial integration in cross-border and transnational functional regions ESPON TerrEvi project Jürgen Pucher, Metis GmbH

the project ESPON TerrEvi… ...develops a methodological concept for using (European) territorial evidence available ...focuses on producing evidence for Structural Funds programmes for more strategic, result-oriented programming for the post 2013- period ...therefore delivered 66 factsheets (53 CBC and 13 TNC) and 10 case studies (4 regional, 1 CBC and 5 TNC) ...project team delivered the draft final report in October 2013

more attention for… ...Macroregions and European groupings of territorial cooperation (EGTC) ...Macroregions and EGTC can be considered as relevant support for the use of structural funds (SF) in the field of territorial cooperation ...both can make crucial contribution to the Cohesion Policy of the EU in the next programming period 2014-2020

more attention for… ...Macroregions: Macroregional strategies follow the principle of “no new money”. This should lead to a more efficient use of already existing money (for instance in ETC programmes) For the next period the EC aims for the macroregions to strengthen the consistency of the different funds. The macroregional strategies could become a strategic/political project of European regional development Territorial challenges do not stop at national and not even at transnational borders – water pollution as a main starting point of the Baltic Sea Region

more attention for… ...EGTC: The draft EC Regulation Proposal on ETC mentions EGTCs as an important instrument for the ERDF to tackle local problems EGTC are considered to be increasingly important for Cohesion Policy especially wherever they cover regions which are at risk of being marginalised in economic terms EGTC will be legally allowed to manage and implement OPs, not least as a Managing Authority (MA) of a cooperation OP Integrated Territorial Investments with the possibility to combine actions financed from different ETC strands

Challenges and additional territorial evidence Lessons learned for Operational Programmes – TerrEvi draft final: Programmes need many different sources – incomplete data sets, insufficient quality etc. are obstacles ESPON is of varying degree interesting for programmes – depends on availability of material Information in a wider European context can help programmes Territorial evidence should be further harmonised

Challenges and additional territorial evidence Lessons learned for Operational Programmes – TerrEvi draft final: European perspective is the main benefit provided by ESPON To understand internal differentiations within programme areas data sets should at least refer to NUT3 level Watch out which sources have been used Discuss with experts