ESPON Seminar: Ensuring quality services for all people and places
Seminars
Registrations are now open!
November 06, 2024
Museum of Ethnography - Budapest
In-person Event
Join us for the ESPON Seminar on “Ensuring quality services for all people and places”, an event dedicated to addressing topical policy debates surrounding service delivery in Europe’s regions. The European Pillar of Social Rights stipulates that everyone has the right to easy-to-use and affordable key services, including water, sanitation, energy, transport, financial services and digital communications. The first-ever European Commission’s "Access to Essential Services in the EU" report published in June 2023 indicated that people at risk of social exclusion and disadvantaged groups face particular challenges. Local and Regional administrations are in many cases at the forefront of delivering key public services.
Registrations are now open! Follow the instructions published in the PIN of the seminar (attached below) and register via the accreditation system of the Presidency.
In collaboration with the Hungarian Presidency of the Council of the European Union, this seminar aims to explore the ways service delivery can be efficiently managed in lagging regions and regions which face particular development challenges (for instance, mountains and coastal areas, islands and sparsely populated areas). How to adapt infrastructure and services to local needs in these types of territories?
Currently, comprehensive subnational evidence and analysis on the delivery of public services across Europe is lacking. The Hungarian Presidency of the Council of the EU and the ESPON Programme will use the occasion to present results of a joint pan-European study which will showcase innovative examples on service delivery from local and regional administrations all across Europe. The rich hands-on experiences will be triangulated with the newly launched reports of the OECD and the Eurofound. All this, to ensure a lively debate ranging from clarifying concepts and definitions, to debating on efficient practical arrangements of service delivery which take into account territorial complexities and go beyond the ‘”accessibility” debate.
The second day of the seminar will be dedicated to exploring the first major outcomes of the ESPON 2030 Programme’s research activities. It will be an opportunity to explore ESPON research through maps, visualization and comprehensive analysis. In addition, the participants will also have a taste of the upcoming Polish Presidency of the Council of the EU which will cost a series of high level events on the Cohesion Policy
Registrations are now open! Follow the instructions published in the PIN of the seminar (attached below) and register via the accreditation system of the Presidency.