1. Åsa Önnerfors, Eurostat
Communication
Åsa Önnerfors,
Eurostat

2. Communication trends at Eurostat
Stronger focus on Social media to interact with users.
Increased use of infographics and videos to explain statistics in a more understandable and direct way.
Efforts to improve statistical literacy, for example Statistics 4 beginners in Statistics Explained.
Digital publications: Shedding light on energy in the EU, Digital economy & society in the EU and The life of women and men in the EU (18 October).
Increased cooperation with the ESS through the DIGICOM project (multilingualism, common Facebook account etc).

5. Eurostat regional yearbook 2017
News: main statistical findings, infographics and graph for EU-28 in the beginning of each chapter.

6. Working Party on Regional Statistics and Rural Development 30/09-01/10 2013

7. Life expectancy at birth is higher for women than men in all regions in the EU, but the gender gap is narrowing. Women in Madrid, Spain (87.1) live on average 17.9 years longer compared to men in Lithuania.(69.2)
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8. London – West has the highest GDP in PPS in relation to the EU-28 average of all regions in the EU.
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9. Ranking of the 20 largest urban areas in the EU.
London and Paris are the only two megacities in the EU, each have around 12 million inhabitants if you include the functional urban area around the city.
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10. The share of people with tertiary education is higher in cities compared to towns and suburbs or rural areas in all countries of the EU.
Working Party on Regional Statistics and Rural Development 30/09-01/

11. Online version in Statistics Explained:
Translations of all chapters in German and French. Files with source data and links to further reading. Contains a glossary with short definitions explaining all statistical terms and concepts.
Working Party on Regional Statistics and Rural Development 30/09-01/

12. Regional yearbook in social media
This map reached persons on Twitter and persons on Facebook during September (published on the 24 September). There are currently 577 retweets and 31 shares.
Twitter: Eurostat has been on Twitter since May 2011 and currently have followers.
Link:
Facebook: Eurostat has been on Facebook since the beginning of 2017 and currently have followers.
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13. European Week of Regions and Cities
Links to Flickr for photos from EWRC 2017:

14. Massive open online course (15 January – 23 February 2018): How to make the most of EU resources for regions and cities
Links:

15. New page for Regions and cities
A new development which will be released by the end of this year, a new web page consolidating already existing content in a hopefully more user-friendly way. The website is based on responsive design and works well also on mobile devices, using practical icons for selecting topics.
Please contact us if you have comments on the content or suggestions for improvement!

16. The Statistical Atlas:
An interactive map viewer based on tailor-made maps with extracted data, perfect for comparing and analysing statistical and geospatial data.
Contains maps from the Eurostat regional yearbook as well as the LUCAS survey and Census 2011.
New development: we plan to release a new statistical geography viewer to keep track of border changes in the NUTS classification and in different territorial typologies.
Link:
Working Party on Regional Statistics and Rural Development 30/09-01/

18. Choose a region to display a statistical value.
Exceptions in NUTS level, reference year etc. are listed in the footnote.
Possibility to download individual maps from the Regional yearbook in high-resolution PDF.
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19. Search function: NUTS code/ label
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20. New viewer: Statistical geography
We are planning to release a new geographical viewer in the Statistical Atlas before the end of this year: it will include boundaries of all NUTS versions (from NUTS 2003 to NUTS 2016), typologies at regional level (NUTS 3 regions), typologies at local level (LAU2), GEOSTAT population grid, city definitions and transport infrastructure.
The idea is to collect all maps on statistical geography in one viewer to facilitate version control and comparison between different map layers (by using the tab with transparency settings). Feedback on this development is most welcome!
Working Party on Regional Statistics and Rural Development 30/09-01/

21. Regions and Cities Illustrated:
An advanced data visualisation tool combining maps and graphs based on live data feed from the Eurostat database, perfect for analysing detailed data patterns within and between the countries and development over time.
Existing tabs: Regions, Cities, Urban-rural regions, Coastal regions and the Degree of urbanisation.
New development: we plan to release new tabs for Metropolitan regions, Border regions, Island regions and Mountain regions.
Link:
Working Party on Regional Statistics and Rural Development 30/09-01/

22. Map and distribution plot: Employment rate
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23. Map and scatter plot with 3 indicators: Employment rate/ Tertiary education rate/ Population density

24. Map and bar chart ranking: GDP in PPS by NUTS 3 regions

25. Mobile phone app "My Region":
Handy access to a selection of regional indicators for EU, EFTA and candidate countries Allows comparison of values for up to three selected regions at a time with rankings, timeline graphs, regional maps and statistical definitions.
Working Party on Regional Statistics and Rural Development 30/09-01/

26. Thank you for your attention!
Photos from the spotlight boxes, regions from left to right:
Upper row: Pinhal interior sul (Portugal), Severozapaden (Bulgaria) and Åland (Finland)
Lower row: Vest (Romania), Malta (Malta) and Lietuva (Lithuania)