Annals of the University of Oradea: Economic Science (Dec 2019)
ESPON 2020 COOPERATION PROGRAM IN ROMANIA
Abstract
The ESPON program aims to promote and stimulate the European territorial dimension in development and cooperation by providing evidence, knowledge transfer and policy delivery to public authorities and other public policy actors at all levels. The objective of the ESPON 2020 Cooperation Program is to support the strengthening of the effectiveness of EU cohesion policy and other sectoral policies and programs under the European Structural Funds and European Investment Funds (ESI funds) as well as national and regional territorial development policies through the production, dissemination and promotion of territorial data covering the entire territory of the 28 Member States and the four partner countries - Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland. Romania as a member country of the program, will benefit from the results of ESPON 2020, consisting of territorial analyzes and studies on European trends in various topical areas: labor market or investment developments, commuting models, demographic change, climate change impacts on European territory, etc
