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News announcement12 October 2017

JRC launches two new products for regional authorities

New JRC tools help regional authorities get a grip on policy challenges, from energy through transport to crisis management

The JRC’s new handbook and dashboard provide information and recommendation on key policy areas for regions across Europe
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During the European Week of Regions and Cities, the JRC launched a new handbook to facilitate the exploitation of its scientific and technical output by regional and city authorities across the EU.

The second product is a new web portal, the territorial dashboard, that provides key indicators on Europe's regions.

Handbook for regional authorities

The Practical Handbook for Regional Authorities contains advice and short descriptions of what is available from the JRC in terms of knowledge, information and tools to support effective local and regional policymaking.

The handbook is organised in several thematic areas, including energy and transport, environment, research and innovation and crisis management and resilience.

The handbook provides information on various JRC policy tools. This includes the reference document on best environmental management practices, which offers advice in several areas relevant to regional authorities.
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Launch of territorial dashboard to share best policy practice

The territorial dashboard offers a full overview of the EU's 276 regions and 1342 sub-regions, with information on 13 domains, from economy to education, from employment to health, from energy to transport.

Data is visualised in a user-friendly way to enable evaluation and comparison of regional performances, and to offer forecasts based on various scenarios.

The territorial dashboard displays colour-coded maps of selected indicators at country, region, subregion and macroregion level. This map shows the population weighted density at subregion level in 2015.
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JRC at the European Week of Regions

Beyond the new tools presented, several teams of JRC scientists are participating at the European Week of Regions to showcase their work.

Some of the topics the JRC explores include: how to optimise the use of available funds to boost innovation, inter-regional partnerships for the implementation of the Smart Strategy on Energy and the JRC's impact assessments that have informed some of the analyses included in the Commission's 7th cohesion report launched during the European Week of Regions and Cities.

The JRC's Knowledge Centre for Territorial Policies has actively contributed to these analyses, specifically through the use of macroeconomic models to assess the EU's cohesion policy investments.

The European Commission produces a cohesion report every three years to report on progress towards achieving economic and social cohesion across the European Union. The report relies primarily on data produced by Eurostat, the JRC, EEA, OECD and the World Bank.

Cohesion policy is the EU's main investment policy. Over the course of the 2014-2020 programming period, €349 billion is being invested in a wide range of areas, from urban regeneration and social policy to culture and enterprise support, in order to increase regional economic competitiveness and reduce disparities across the continent.

Related Content

Practical Handbook for Regional Authorities

Territorial Dashboard

Knowledge Centre for Territorial Policies

European Commission 7th cohesion report

Video explaining the Territorial Dashboard (You Tube)

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Publication date
12 October 2017