Towards a monitoring information system for territorial attractiveness and policy management in South East Europe

Abstract

Policy-based management towards sustainable and cohesive territorial development needs a strategic priorities oriented information platform. This information platform should secure an effective decision-making process as well as an efficient coordination of sectoral policies and activities. In order to achieve and implement commonly agreed development priorities in the future, the European Union have launched several strategic initiatives, such as Europe 2020, INSPIRE, etc. These strategies ones are expected to provide appropriate responds to development needs, as well as to support the creation of relevant policies. Aiming to establish a territorial monitoring information system in SEE region, eight countries have launched the project “Territorial Attractiveness Assessment in South East Europe” within the 4th Call of SEE Transnational Cooperation Programme. Such an information system is, needed to build a region-wide information platform for an efficient decision-making and coordination of strategic actions towards smart, sustainable and inclusive growth. The pilot domain of project was territorial attractiveness. This article provides a description of project’s main results.

Keywords

• Space
• spatial development
• spatial information system
• territorial monitoring system
• territorial attractiveness
• EU
• South East Europe