The ESPON TIA Web ApplicationAssessing potential territorial impacts of EU initiatives

Bernd Schuh

Austrian Institute for Regional Studies and Spatial Planning (ÖIR)Rome, 5th December 2014

ESPON ARTS ESPON TIA

The Challenge

• EU policy proposals influence development of regions

• with often territorial effects

The project ESPON ARTS

• developed a simplified, evidence-based procedure of

an ex ante Territorial Impact Assessment (TIA)

The TIA Quick Check approach

• a “quick and dirty” TIA-check

• combining expert knowledge gathered in a workshopwith an Excel tool and standardised indicators

• showing results in maps (NUTS 3 level)

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Independant of policy proposalThe vulnerability concept

Policies Regions

Exposure Territorial sensitivity

Territorial impact

(1)How to get started

(2)The conceptual model

(3)Which types of regions are affected (branching & regional exposure)?

(4)What is the intensity of exposure on different fields?

(5)What is the territorial impact in European regions?

(6)Which regions will be hit in which fields?

(7)Do the results make sense?

(8)What are the policy implications?

(9)How to communicate the results?

TIA Quick Check in 9 Steps

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(2) Conceptual model: Brainstorming

Creating a systemic picture linking

the policy proposal with territorial effects

(3) Which types of regions are affected ?

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(4) What is the intensity of exposure in different fields?

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(5) What is the territorial impact on regions?

Distribution of the impact in European regions

(6) Which regions will be hit in which fields?

(1)How to get started

(2)The conceptual model

(3)Which types of regions are affected (branching & regional exposure)?

(4)What is the intensity of exposure on different fields?

(5)What is the territorial impact in European regions?

(6)Which regions will be hit in which fields?

(7)Do the results make sense?

(8)What are the policy implications?

(9)How to communicate the results?

TIA Quick Check in 9 Steps

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The ESPON TIA Web ApplicationAssessing potential territorial impacts of EU initiatives

Bernd Schuh

Austrian Institute for Regional Studies and Spatial Planning (ÖIR)Rome, 5th December 2014