ESPON 1'4'2 Social

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ESPON 1.4.2 / Social

• Preparatory Study on Social Aspects of
• EU Territorial Development
• Status Interim Report
• Erich Dallhammer (ÖIR)

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Content of the Presentation

• Preparatory Study on Social Aspects of EU
  Territorial Development
• Interim Report

• Background
• Overview Methodology
• Interim Results
• Outlook

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The political backgroundSocial issues in
European strategic documents

• Lisbon/Gothenburg Agenda
• become the most competitive and dynamic
  knowledge-based economy in the world
• sustainable economic growth with more and better
  jobs and greater social cohesion
• Council of Europe
• social cohesion should be seen as one of the
  foremost needs of the wider Europe and
  essential complement to the promotion of human
  rights and dignity
• key priorities of Strategy for Social Cohesion
• A better provision and access to social
  services, employment, housing, education and
  training

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Framework for ESPON 1.4.2 according to Terms of
Reference

• 1.4.2 is a preparatory study for a ESPON applied
  research project to be financed in the next
  programming period
• To explore the main elements of social aspects of
  territorial dynamics displaying trends and
  disparities on NUTS 3 level
• To provide scientific information and guidance,
  to implement a sound spatial analysis of social
  patterns, trends, impacts and dynamics
• Taking into account
• key challenges / problems
• existing research works and policies
• concepts, indicators
• To make proposals for indicators on territorial
  contexts

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Research Background of ESPON 1.4.2
Two-way relationship the social and the
territorial
Two approaches reflecting the two-way
relationship

• understanding of the territorial impacts of
  social policies
• discussing the impact of social issues on the
  territorial development

Social processes
Territorial development
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Methodology Project structure
Work Packages
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The ESPON 1.4.2 team

• ÖIR, Austrian Institute for Regional Studies and
  Spatial Planning (Austria) - WP 3 Employment
  and Income Distribution
• Nordregio, Nordic Centre for Spatial Development
  (Sweden) WP 2 Access to Social Services, Public
  Transfer
• MRI, Metropolitan Research Institute (Hungary)
  WP 4 Housing and Territorial Development
• CEG, Centro de Estudos Geográficos, Alameda da
  Universidade (Portugal) WP 5 Education and
  Training

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Methodology Tasks Tools

• Tasks of thematic surveys
• Task 1 policy review
• Task 2 scientific literature review
• Task 3 overview on existing datasets including
  proposal of relevant indicators
• Task 4 foundation for future research
  possibilities

• Tools
• Tool 1 Grid for the collection of data and
  indicators
• Tool 2 Analysis grid for the policy review
• Tool 3 Guidelines for the literature review and
  bibliography
• Tool 4 Grid for the selection of relevant
  indicator sets
• Tool 5 Reporting Format for the thematic
  conclusions

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Collection of Data and Indicators on social
aspects

• Data quality required
• harmonised regional data
• available from EU sources
• preferably at NUTS 3 level
• Covering EU2522

• Sources Investigated
• Existing ESPON - database (www.espon.lu)
• Eurostat database (europa.eu.int/comm/eurostat/)
• Urban audit (http//www.urbanaudit.org/index.aspx)
  
• Study programme on European spatial
  planning(http//www.nordregio.se/spespn/welcome.h
  tm)
• OECD (www.oecd.org)
• European housing statistics
• Several relevant UN-sources

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Interim Results Data and Indicatorsdescribing
territoral social issues

• A huge number (216) of potential indicators found
• But
• about 80 of the social indicators just exist on
  national level- e.g. all OECD data, lots of
  UN-data
• Data from Urban Audit are just available for
  selected cities -gt not usable for analysing the
  EU-territory
• -gt About 30 usable indicators describing regional
  social issues
• Many data on regional level are just available at
  NUTS2 - just about 1/6 of the usable indicators
  are available at NUTS3
• best database with usable data ESPON database
• -gt The regional level is often missing.
• -gt further research needed

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Analysis Grid for the Policy Review

• Analysis of the main policy orientation at EU
  level
• current EU policies and strategies (sector
  policies)
• based on existing overviews and comparisons
• possibly available in English

• Two parts (see annex of interim report)
• overall view of most important information
  (table)
• short description of main contents and structure
  of each single policy

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Interim Results Policy Review about social issues

• overview about 35 relevant policy papers
• Social aspects are considered within many policy
  papers on very different levels - social aspects
  are important
• But
• Social policies are strongly determined by
  national interest - difficulty to get a
  comprehensive picture throughout Europe
  (employment, social transfers, housing,
  education, ...)
• Some definitions are rather unspecific (e.g.
  poverty)
• Interrelationships between the themes analysed
  exist (e.g. housing - social cohesion)
• Due to the organisation of social issues
  policies on lower (local) level might conflict
  policies on higher (National /European) levels
  (e.g. housing)
• -gt further research needed

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Outlook Next steps in ESPON 142

• ESPON 142-Project Meeting on March 15th in
  Salzburg- problem of missing data on regional
  level- revealing inter-relationships between the
  thematic issues- agreement on useful set of
  potential indicators- definition of further
  research needed
• Production of European maps displaying
  territorial trends
• Preparation of final report, taking into
  account- todays discussion- additional
  remarks including - final results of the
  scientific literature review - final results of
  the policy review- final list of requested
  indicators and related data- summary of the
  proposal for future applied research

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Outlook Timetable Proceedings - Deliverables
Coord. meeting Salzburg
2005-02-15 Interim Report
2005-05-31 Final Report
Kick Off Vienna
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• Thank you for
• your attention