ESPON TIA Tool Upgrade

Programme 2014 - 2020 ESPON 2020

Date of latest update: 2024-05-18

Description

Description (EN):

The main outcome of this project will be an upgraded and updated ESPON TIA Tool, a Quick Check ensuring territorial impact assessment. This tool has been developed in the previous programming period in order to support policy makers and practitioners with identifying, ex-ante, potential territorial impacts of new EU Legislations, Policies and Directives (LPDs). The project will further develop a user-friendly ESPON TIA web application by providing in addition the possibility to carry out Urban Impact Assessment, Cross-border TIA and TIA focused on other specific types of regions. In addition, new and innovative functionalities will be integrated and existing datasets, typologies will be updated and new indicators will be added. This activity will also support the preparation, moderation and documentation of TIA workshops organized by main stakeholders like the European Commission and the European Committee of the Regions, but also by other stakeholders wishing to use the TIA tool and in need for support. Training of potential moderators of the ESPON TIA tool will be also ensured during the project.

Achievements (EN):

What is the ESPON TIA tool? The ESPON TIA tool is an interactive web application that can be used to get a quick impression of possible territorial impacts of EU Legislations, Policies and Directives (LPDs) that are in the making. The tool is meant to help a moderator in a workshop setting to steer an expert discussion on possible asymmetric territorial impacts of a concrete LPD. How does the ESPON TIA tool work? The participants of the workshop are guided through the different steps of an impact analysis. The policy impacts are assessed using a vulnerability approach. This approach uses three elements: a) exposure, b) sensitivity and c) impact. The tool combines expert knowledge on exposure (a) gathered in the workshop with a set of statistical data describing the sensitivity (b) of the regions. The resulting maps visualise the impacts (c) on the various territories and serve as input for discussion among the experts. The maps can serve as a starting point for further discussion of different impacts of a concrete EU policy on different regions. The tool allows to do a TIA for Europe as a whole, but one can also focus on cross-border regions, urban areas and even on custom made areas. What is new in the ESPON TIA tool? The new version of the TIA tool gives access to the following innovative functionalities: Necessity check: In case you’re not sure if it is necessary to assess territorial impacts in more detail, you can use ‘NECESSITY CHECK’. This is a checklist to support the decision whether it is necessary to conduct a Territorial Impact Assessment (TIA) or not. Demo version: Everybody can explore the TIA tool, without the need to register, using the ‘TRY DEMO’ option obtaining access to almost all functionalities. Urban and cross-border TIA: The tool allows a TIA for Europe as a whole, but one can also focus on urban areas, cross-border regions and even on custom made areas. Aggregating impacts: A region can be affected in multiple thematic fields and to obtain an impression on the collective positive (or negative) effects on regions, positive (and negative) impacts can be aggregated and visualised in one map. Has the ESPON TIA tool been used in practice? The ESPON TIA tool has been used in multiple TIA workshops organised by the Committee of the Regions (CoR), DG Regio and Interact. The CoR, for example, has used TIA workshops to assess the potential territorial impacts of legislative proposals involving stakeholders from regions and cities. Each of the workshops resulted in a report providing their rapporteurs with an analysis of the potential territorial impact of EU legislative proposals. A When to use the ESPON TIA tool? The Territorial Impacts Tool #33 of the Commission’s Better Regulation guidelines mentions the following: “The territorial dimension may be relevant for impact assessments for two reasons. First, the impacts associated with the problem are often heterogeneously distributed across the Union. This means that the design of effective policy options will also bring about an uneven geographical distribution of impacts (costs and benefits). Second, a policy option may act unevenly to produce heterogeneous territorial impacts even where a problem is not necessarily unevenly distributed across the territory of the Union.” In these cases, it is important that this is characterised at an early stage of policy development. Although policies do not affect all European regions to the same extent, there is no need to address them all for potential asymmetric territorial impact. To decide whether or not it is necessary to assess in more detail if regions are effected substantially different, a checklist has been developed, which can be found on the home page of the ESPON TIA tool. Who can access the ESPON TIA tool? Everyone can access the tool using the “TRY DEMO” button on the home page of the ESPON TIA tool. Via this access almost all functionalities of the tool are available. Detailed information, including an explanation on the rules of the game, a moderators guide and slides, can be found in step “1.SETUP TIA” under “+INFO”. The demo access is sufficient to get to know the tool and its functionalities. In case you want to use the ESPON TIA tool in a workshop setting, then it’s best to contact the ESPON EGTC. Do you want to learn more about the ESPON TIA tool? An interesting opportunity to learn a bit more about the ESPON TIA tool and the TIA methodology used is to view one of the e-learning activities that are available online. A first video explains the concept of TIA itself, the objectives, functionalities, capabilities of the TIA tool and how the tool can be applied in a workshop setting. The second video presents a selection of TIA workshop examples and their results as well as discusses how workshop results can be documented and used.

Website: https://archive.espon.eu/

Expected Results (EN):

The main objective of this project on “ESPON TIA tool upgrade” is to further expand the ESPON TIA Tool developed within the previous programming period using the recent policy processes regarding TIA and the experiences obtained by applying the current tool. The ESPON TIA tool should take up, follow and support the guidance given within the staff working document on “Assessing territorial impacts: Operational guidance on how to assess regional and local impacts within the Commission Impact Assessment System” (SWD(2013)3. This should be done in such a way that the tool can be tailor-made for carrying out an urban IA, a cross-border TIA and TIAs focussed on other specific types of regions. In addition new and innovative functionalities should be integrated, datasets should be complemented and updated, the administrator module should be improved and the tool should be made more stable to use. An additional aim of this tender is to use the tool to give support to TIA workshops and to provide training on the tool to potential moderators. The main outcomes of the project should be: - An easily accessible and reliable ESPON TIA Tool covering:- User-friendly interface giving access to general TIA - Support for Urban Impact Assessment - Support for Cross-border TIA - Support for TIA focussed on other specific types of regions - Extended and up-to-date datasets and typologies - New and innovative functionalities - Administrator module and guidelines for the ESPON TIA Tool - Supported TIA workshops - Moderators trained to support TIA workshops

Thematic information

Evaluation systems and results Regional planning and development

Specific Objective: Improved territorial observation and tools for territorial analyses

Thematic Objective:

(11) enhancing institutional capacity of public authorities and stakeholders and efficient public administration through actions to strengthen the institutional capacity and the efficiency of public administrations and public services related to the implementation of the ERDF, and in support of actions under the ESF to strengthen the institutional capacity and the efficiency of public administration.

Investment Priority: (11 ETC) ETC specific for transnational cooperation: enhancing institutional capacity of public authorities and stakeholders and efficient public administration by developing and coordinating macro-regional and sea-basin strategies

Partners (2)

Lead Partner: ӦIR GmbH

Address: Franz-Josefs-Kai 27, A-1010 Vienna, Austria

Legal status: private

Laurentia Technologies

Name: Laurentia Technologies

Address: Avenida Benjamin Franklin 12, Mod.14, 46980 Paterna, Spain

Legal status: private

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Ӧir GmbH

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Summary

Project name (EN): ESPON TIA Tool Upgrade

Project acronym: TIAUPG

Project start date: 2017-02-03

Project end date: 2020-08-18

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 200 000.00

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 163 540.80

Co-financing sources:

ERDF: Amount, EUR 163 540.80.

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ESPON TIA Tool - Moderator’s Guide - Monitoring and Tools

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Brochure / magazine / manual

Data source: https://www.espon.eu/tia-tool-upgrade

Publication date: 2021-02-28

Document date: 2020-02-10

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Reports

Monitoring and Tools - Delivery 5 - Report on the work done in relation to the upgraded version of the TIA tool

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://www.espon.eu/tia-tool-upgrade

Publication date: 2021-02-28

Document date: 2020-02-10

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

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Financing programme

2014 - 2020 ESPON 2020

Last month that data in keep.eu was retrieved from the Programme's website or received from the Programme

2024-03-04

No. of projects in keep.eu / Total no. of projects (% of projects in keep.eu)

68 / 69 (98.55%)

No. of project partnerships in keep.eu / Total no. of project partnerships (% of project partnerships in keep.eu)

353 / 370 (95.41%)

Notes on the data

Information provided by the Programme. Data from 3 projects ((MRS. ESPON TOOL, SoET and CPS 2.0) was retrieved by Interact from the programme´s website on the 2024-03-01. Regarding partners only data only main partners is available. Achievements were retrieved by Interact from the Programme website (http://www.espon.eu), or a website directly linked from it, on 2021-09-21 and 2023-01-03.

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