Knowledge Centre for Territorial Policies

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Database ARDECO is the Annual Regional Database of the European Commission's Directorate General for Regional and Urban Policy, maintained and updated by the Joint Research Centre. The database contains a...

Homelessness in EU cities and towns before and during the COVID-19 pandemic - Main challenges and ways forward New perspectives on territorial disparities - From lonely places to places...

The Knowledge Centre for Territorial Policies provides access to platforms and models that are used to generate scenarios and make information available to stakeholders and partners. The added value of...

Tools provided by the European Commission Urban Data Platform plus Urban Data Platform Plus ( UDP plus) is a joint initiative of...

These publications on the localisation and the subnational monitoring of the Sustainable Development Goals are produced by European and global institutions.

Economic and societal challenges (economic growth, employment, poverty, migration, energy production and consumption …) cannot be fully understood without a territorially disaggregated dimension...

Demography can be defined as the statistical study of the size and characteristics of human population, and of its history and evolution across time and space. Through demography we can...

Trust and quality of public services There is a recognised belief that countries with better institutions—both soft, such as trust and norms, and hard, such as rule of law and good governance—can...

Stimulating research and innovation (R&I) is an important topic for the European Union. Therefore the JRC is involved in the drafting and evaluation of policies that incite and steer R&I throughout the EU’s territory...