The EU is increasingly facing territorial inequalities in multiple dimensions; income, innovation, welfare, health, education, service accessibility, labour market and the brain drain, to name a few.
These inequalities have differing impacts according to the type of territory, for example, in border regions. Addressing these challenges is key to building a fairer and more resilient society, and strengthening links between citizens and the democratic institutions that serve them.
There is a need to provide robust data and knowledge to help design future-proof policies that could counter the effects of demographic decline and rising economic inequality across EU territories. Territorial and sectoral dimensions are a fundamental part of designing, monitoring, and assessing the impact of policies.
JRC has developed a group of tools to support developing and implementing integrated strategies in territorial urban and non-urban settings.
and knowledge to help design future-proof policies that could counter the effects of demographic decline and rising economic inequality across EU territories.There is a need to provide robust data
• Innovation for place-based transformations. ACTIONbook, practices and tools,
a comprehensive hands-on resource set to empower local, regional, and national stakeholders across Europe to drive societal well being and climate-resilient development through strategic partnerships and purposedriven actions. To download the ACTIONbook and read inspiring projects, visit this site.
• A self-assessment tool for territoral and local development strategies,
designed for local authorities and national and regional managing authorities under the EU Cohesion Policy 2021-2027. The authorities handle building or updating integrated territorial development strategies, or more precisely to Integrated Territorial Investment (ITI) or Community Led Local Development (CLLD) and other types of territorial tools in non-urban settings.
• Self-Assessment Tool for Sustainable Urban Development strategies (SAT4SUD):
designed for local authorities and national and regional managing authorities of the EU Cohesion Policy in charge of building or updating sustainable urban development strategies.
• Dashboards
Discover a world of data and how your place city, province, district, region or country is performing, thanks to this unique collection of official and experimental indicators covering socio-economic and environmental aspects.
On top of the 360-degree overview, find out about trends in cities, regions and local areas in Europe and beyond, including overtime evolution and projections from the latest and most advanced modelling frameworks.
• The Demography-Economy-Land use interaction (DELi) model
relies on a set of linked equations that integrate empirically derived assumptions on future regional growth, and estimate regional levels of GDP, employment, population and land use recursively and in an integrated manner, thus capturing demography-economy feedback as well as ongoing, expected or assumed processes of divergence and convergence across regions. The model can be configured to generate different regionalisation scenarios based on the same or different input countrylevel projections. DELi was built as a modular, flexible structure that allows to expand or substitute any of its components by alternative methodological approaches or assumptions.
• Territorial Economic Data Viewer (TEDv)
offers users an easy way to: monitor the territorial and sectorial concentration of R&I funds; compare the contribution of different R&I funds to the total Research and Development (R&D) expenditures of a territory; perform regional benchmarking in terms of the use of different R&I funding; assess the evolution of the socio-economic performance of a region compared to country and European Union averages. See the TEDAM Working Paper for more details about the data and methods behind TEDv.
• Territorial Data Analysis and Modelling (TEDAM)
provides quantitative economic analyses and policy impact assessments with a focus on the European territorial dimension (up to the NUTS 2 regional level). TEDAM’S work is organised along two pillars:
RHOMOLO (Regional Holistic Model), used for policy impact assessment and provides sectoral, regional and time specific results based on scenario analysis.
REMO (Regional Economic Monitoring) focuses on the mapping, monitoring, and analysis of key regional and micro-level data.
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