Inception report: Feedbacks, problems and answers Van Hamme Gilles IGEAT-ULB Internal Meeting october

2/25 Major questions and objectives 1.Objective 1: to assess how Europe, its regions and cities participate in the global flows and networks and how the global processes impact on the territorial structures of Europe. How can territorial policies help to improve the position of the different types of regions in the world and ensure the objectives of social and territorial cohesion despite the potentially unequal impacts of globalization on European territories? 2. Objective 2: : to analyse the impacts of territorial structures on European performances How can territorial policy improve European competitiveness? For example, should we invest mainly in the global cities to improve Europe’s position in the world? 3. Objective 3: to analyse how Europe and its territories position themselves in the world through cooperation and networking with other parts of the world. How this positioning participates in achieving the objectives of improving competitiveness as well as social and territorial cohesion?

3/25 The architecture of the Project

4/25 The different WP’s WP2.1. Data WP2.2. Territorial structures WP Divisions of the world (Université Normandie) WP territorial structure in a comparative perspective (ULB-Reading) WP2.3. Flows and networks WP Economic flows (ULB-BAS-READING) WP Financial flows (READING-Sainteville) WP Knowledge flows (JIBS) WP Migratory flows (Sapienza) WP Transport (Normandie-ULB) WP2.4. Political flows (Normandie) WP2.5. Prospective and policy options

5/25 The general philosophy of the project 1 - providing answers based on existing results from the ESPON program as well as from the scientific and grey literature (European commission, World Bank, OECD). 2 – providing new results based on innovative approaches in order to shed new light on the main questions raised by the challenge of globalization for European territories:  make a systematic comparison of Europe, North American and Eastern Asia in terms of performances in competitiveness, social and territorial cohesion (WP 2.2);  to provide regional trade statistics in order to assess more directly than in previous studies the regional role in the division of labour (WP 2.3.1);  to complete existing studies on the position of European regions in the international division of labour by value chain analyses (WP 2.3.1);  to assess the position of Europe in the global financial flows through original indicators (WP 2.3.2);  to assess the position of Europe and its territories in the global knowledge flows through indirect indicators (high value goods, license payment, patent citations) (WP 2.3.3);  to analyse specific forms of human mobility (highly qualified persons, female, students) (WP 2.3.4);  to analyse the position of Europe in the world through different types of gateways, mainly financial, maritime and air gateways (WP and 2.3.5);  to synthesize different forms of cooperation between Europe and the rest of the world (official treaties of the EU, networks of excellence…) (WP 2.4).

6/25 Feedbacks from the inception report: from my point of view 1.The timing is sometimes problematic and does not take into account the project as a whole. Two issues are important here: -As far as the interim report is concerned, most of us promise mainly databases. -Draft final results of each WP should come earlier than noted otherwise synthesis and policy options would be impossible to achieve. 2. Literature review is still unequal (also from the expert). It should be homogenized and developed for the interim report. 3. Some aspects should be added for the interim report: - Overview on the recent trends, dynamics and spatial patterns related to territorial structures in the world (emergence of concepts such as Mega-city-region,…) (Literature review) -First draft on the case studies developed. -First mapping of databases -Working papers on Europe (as a whole) in the world

7/25 Feedbacks from the inception report: from the expert Precision: one expert is positive, the other very negative Positive expert points the following aspects with some relevance: -Value chain analysis (WP 2.3.1) -Knowledge flows (WP 2.3.3) -Migrations (WP 2.3.4) -Regionalism (WP 2.4)