ESPON Baltic Sea Region Territorial Monitoring

The Baltic Sea Region Territorial Monitoring System (BSR-TEMO) is an interactive system allowing access to a set of spatial monitoring indicators, subdivided into six themes. BSR-TEMO indicators highlight the performance of regions within the Baltic Sea Region compared to the ESPON space as a whole.
Inspect individual indicators via the Domains menu, visit the map gallery from the Gallery menu, download reports, hand books and user manuals from the Documents section, or access a number of Applications representing test beds for Baltic Sea Regions in Europe.

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ESPON Citybench for Benchmarking European Urban Zones

This webtool allows policymakers, practitioners and public and private investors to benchmark their cities against other similar cities, around issues such as demographic challenges, economic challenges, social disparities/polarisation, urban sprawl and greenhouse gas emissions. This webtool helps them to put economic, social and environmental sustainability of cities at the core of decisions. This benchmarking webtool creates opportunities for the forming of innovative learning networks among cities. It will also provides a first indication of the suitability of financial engineering instruments in place-based policymaking for addressing risks and opportunities.

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ESPON Online Mapping Tool: key ESPON indicators at regional level

The ESPON Online Mapping Tool is an interactive mapping tool where users can select, combine and overlay indicators from the ESPON database, choose the geography and display animations based on indicator time series when available. The Online Mapping Tool visualizes and analyzes data stored in the ESPON Database, in maps and diagrams. This tool fills the gap between disseminating data in tables by the ESPON Database and disseminating data in fixed maps by the ESPON Online Map Finder and ESPON projects.

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ESPON Online Map Finder: key ESPON map interpreted

The Online Map Finder tool is aimed at storing policy relevant maps developed by the ESPON Programme in a single online platform. The Map Finder is aimed at presenting ESPON findings in a simple manner for making them accessible to wide audience interested in territorial developments and policy impacts in Europe.
The web application allows search queries, zoom options, and comparisons between maps. Maps are followed by a concise description structured in five sections that provide background information and key messages for policy development.

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ESPON Database

ESPON Database Portal supplies researchers, policy makers and stakeholders at regional and local level with data and indicators that can be used for European territorial development and cohesion policy formulation, application and monitoring at different geographical levels.
The data included in the ESPON Database originated from ESPON projects, as well as European institutions such as EUROSTAT and EEA. The ESPON Database offers data and indicators with territorial resolution (LAU2, NUTS3, NUTS2, NUTS0) covering the entire European Union as well as Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland.

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ESPON DataNavigator

The ESPON Data Navigator 2012 offers access to regional datasets mostly NUTS2 and NUTS3 available from European National Statistical Offices. Data is available for all EU Member States, EFTA, accession and neighbouring countries. Information on the data sources covers contact details and access conditions.
The Data Navigator is aimed at supporting ESPON projects in processes of data tracking, basically by providing a European inventory and overview of relevant European data sources covering the National and Regional scale, occasionally complemented by the European and transnational scale as well.

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ESPON Atlas 2014 

The ESPON Atlas 2014 is envisaged to present a synoptic and comprehensive overview of key findings from all ESPON 2013 Priority 1 and Priority 2 projects, which serve as main providers of new facts, evidence and knowledge about European territorial structures, trends and perspectives and policy impacts. Together with the indicators and datasets included in the ESPON Database, this project shall promote the mission of the ESPON 2013 Programme of supporting policy development by compiling an "ESPON Atlas on European Territorial Structures and Dynamics" by the end of the ESPON 2013 Programme.

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ESPON EUROPE 2020 Strategy Atlas

The Online Map Finder tool is aimed at storing policy relevant maps developed by the ESPON Programme in a single online platform. The Map Finder is aimed at presenting ESPON findings in a simple manner for making them accessible to wide audience interested in territorial developments and policy impacts in Europe.
The web application allows search queries, zoom options, and comparisons between maps. Maps are followed by a concise description structured in five sections that provide background information and key messages for policy development.

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