We support our customers with well-founded research studies, planning and expert opinions. Our clients include European institutions, research institutes, federal ministries and associated authorities, state ministries and associated authorities, regions and planning associations, districts, cities, foundations, other public institutions and companies.
The exact form of our work and services is agreed in advance between the customer and us.
The ESPON project IRiE (Interregional Relations in Europe) examined the diverse functional linkages between European regions. While economic and social interdependencies between countries have been widely studied, comparable knowledge about interactions at the regional level remained limited. The ...
In the project ESPON BT2050 – Territorial Scenarios for the Baltic Sea Region possible spatial developments of the Baltic Sea Region are to be explored. The project aims at the identification of long-term trends and their implications in the Baltic Sea Region and the develoment of three spatial ...
In the ESPON project "Scenarios for Accessibility by the Sea, Road, Rail, Air and Multimodal" S&W determines accessibility patterns to be expected in the future for the regions of Europe. Based on the plans for the trans-European transport networks (TEN-T) road, rail, air and multimodal ...
In the ESPON project "Possible European Territorial Futures" the present situation and expected spatial development of Europe are to be analysed in particular with respect to cohesion aspects. For this the spatial impacts of different developments in the fields of economy, energy and land markets ...
In the ESPON project "Accessibility by the Sea Indicators", S&W determined the maritime accessibility of European seaports. For this purpose, various traffic data were prepared, especially cartographically. This included the traffic volumes and interconnections of the ports as well as the ...
On behalf of the Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development (BBSR), S&W has prepared selected results of the ESPON programme on European spatial development in German and from a German perspective with selected co-authors in information brochures. The ...
The ESPON project TRACC (Transport Accessibility at Regional/Local Scale and Patterns in Europe) aimed at taking up and updating the results of existing studies on accessibility at the European scale, to extend the range of accessibility indicators by further indicators responding to new policy ...
S&W conducts an update of indicators of potential accessibility for the ESPON project Matrices. The update consists on the one hand in the new calculation of accessibility indicators fpr the updated European NUTS regions (2010) and on the other other hand in the calculation of the same ...
The main objective of this project is to identify European regions with a particular potential for developing a green economy through spatial planning and cohesion policies. The project is to contribute to better understanding the territorial dimension of the green economy based on the natural ...
The ESPON Atlas 2014 is to present a comprehensive overview of key findings of ESPON 2013 projects about European territorial structures, trends and perspectives and policy impacts. The ESPON ATLAS project supports the mission of ESPON of supporting policy development by compiling an "ESPON Atlas ...
The aim of this project was to develop a vision of the European territory supported by sound scientific knowledge. In a participatory process different groups of stakeholders were involved in developing the vision to widen thematic, temporal and territorial horizons by imagining a future that ...
The objective of the ESPON project "Best Development Conditions in European Metropolises: Paris, Berlin and Warsaw" (BEST METROPOLISES) is to identify factors that determine the development of European metropolitan areas using Paris, Berlin and Warsaw as examples. The diagnosis is to provide data ...
With the start of the new ESPON 2013 Programme a couple of key indicators of the previous programming period were updated. Potential accessibility indicators belong to this group of important indicators for European regions. Since S&W had provided already the update of road and rail ...
In the project for the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Affairs (BMVBS) the results of the ESPON 2006 Programme were reviewed from a German perspective. The results of the project were communicated in a series of reports and workshops with politicians and scientists from Germany. ...
In ESPON 1.2.1, S&W had developed potential accessibility indicators for road, rail and air for NUTS-3 regions for the year 2001. These accessibility indicators were used in several ESPON projects and EU documents, among them the Third Cohesion Report of the European Commission. In 2006 ESPON ...
The ESPON project 1.4.4 "Preparatory Study on Feasibility of Flows Analysis" was a feasibility and pilot study preparing for more in-depth research on spatial interactions ("flows") in ESPON 2013. Its main objectives were, building on existing work in ESPON, to give an overview on existing ...
The project ESPON 1.1.3 "Enlargement of the European Union and the Wider European Perspective as regards its Polycentric Spatial Structure" looked at the territory of the European Union with special attention to the discontinuities and potentials of the integration of the twelve new member states ...
The project ESPON 2.1.1 was to assess the territorial impacts of EU Transport and TEN policies with respect to how much they contribute to the objectives of the European Spatial Development Perspective (ESDP) competitiveness, spatial cohesion and polycentricity. For this the project assessed ...
ESPON 1.2.1 "Transport Services and Networks: Territorial Trends and Basic Supply of Infrastructure for Territorial Cohesion" was to provide an overview of the state and development of the European transport networks of all modes by integrating transport and socio-economic indicators to investigate ...
The objective of ESPON 1.1.1 was to provide the background for a more informed discussion of polycentric development in Europe. For this the project provided an overview of the European urban system with regards to functional specialisations and current degrees of polycentricity as well as a ...
