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ESPON 1.4.2 / Social
Preparatory Study on Social Aspects ofEU Territorial DevelopmentStatus: Interim Report
Erich Dallhammer (ÖIR)
Content of the Presentation
Preparatory Study on Social Aspects of EU Territorial Development
Interim Report
• Background
• Overview Methodology
• Interim Results
• Outlook
The political background:Social 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”
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
Research Background of ESPON 1.4.2
Two-way relationship: ”the social” and ”the territorial”
Two approaches reflecting the two-way relationship:
Territorial development
Social processes
• understanding of the territorial impacts of social policies
• discussing the impact of social issues on the territorial development
Interim report
Methodology: Project structure
Work Packages
WP 1: Identifying the Issues – The Social Dimension of Space
Str
uct
uri
ng
WP 2: Access to
Social Services,
SGEIs; Public
Transfer
WP 3: Employ-
ment and Income Distri-bution
WP 4: Housing
and Terri-torial
Develop-ment
WP 5: Educa-
tion and Training
Them
ati
c Surv
eys
WP 6: Towards an Agenda for Integrating Social Aspects into Territorial Development
Concl
usi
ons
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
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
Collection of existing data and indicators describing social issues
Tool 1
indicator “not usable”no
usa
bili
ty
standard
s Usability check: Is
the indicator usable?
yes
List of usable indicators (in existing sources)
ad hoc typology
Policy review
Tool 3Tool 2
Literature review
Tool 4
Relevance assessmen
t complete picture?
further description of core indicators
yes
Set of relevant existing indicators
demands on content
rele
vance
st
andard
s
no
Proposal of additional indicators
Set of social territorial indicators existing and new
Tool 5FINAL REPORT Tool 5
Mapsand interpretation
Interim report
Collection of Data and Indicators on social aspects
Data quality required
• harmonised regional data
• available from EU sources
• preferably at NUTS 3 level
• Covering EU25+2+2Sources 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.htm)
• OECD (www.oecd.org)
• European housing statistics
• Several relevant UN-sources
Collection of existing data and indicators describing social issues
Tool 1
indicator “not usable”no
indicator “not usable”no
Usability check: I s
the indicator usable?
Usability check: I s
the indicator usable?
yes
List of usable indicators (in existing sources)
yes
List of usable indicators (in existing sources)
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 -> not usable for analysing the EU-territory
-> 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
-> “The regional level is often missing.”
-> further research needed
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
Policy review
Tool 2
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)
-> further research needed
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:- today’s 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
Outlook: Timetable – Proceedings - Deliverables
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2005-02-15 Interim Report
2005-05-31 Final
Report