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ESPON FUORE: A tool beyond the classical administrative boundaries
Development and sustainability policies are looking progressively into functional areas, understood as areas around urban centres where systemic relationships form, or categories of areas delimited by geographical specificities or economic activities.
If your interest goes beyond the classical administrative boundaries, the ESPON FUORE web tool might be the tool for you!
You can find out, for example:
How much population has changed in the sparsely populated areas of your country;
What the net migration is in the different European mountains;
How youth unemployment has changed in the past years in the different functional urban areas of your region;
Which border areas in Europe are the most economically strong.
The ESPON FUORE project provides a web tool with hundreds of estimated demographic and socio-economic time series indicators for several types of functional areas (functional urban areas, coasts, mountains, islands, sparsely populated areas, border areas and green infrastructure potential areas).
Any policy-maker or stakeholder can make use of the userfriendly web tool to quickly analyse and benchmark any of the functional regions by means of interactive maps and charts. If official statistics are not available for a specific functional region, the FUORE tool can provide estimations.
Do you have a NUTS-based indicator and would you like to redistribute it by a particular functional area The FUORE tool can help you do so! An additional specific tool for advanced users is provided to guide the ad hoc redistribution of a NUTS2 or NUTS3 indicator by a selected functional area. The outcome can be previewed before sending to the FUORE web tool.
The ESPON FUORE web tool is in line with several initiatives promoting and reporting by functional areas, such as the OECD’s Global Functional Territories tool.