About the Project
If we could know, what QoL mean sand how it is developing overtime on European, national ,regional and local level, taking into account Europe’s territorial diversity, then we could better look into the reasonsfor short coming sand possible counter actions .Such we could better coordinate actions and invest men son different geographical levels. European policies, like cohesion policy ,could have astronger reference to the quality of life of European citizens.
SabineStoelb,ESPONQoLPSTmember– Luxembourg
QoL is a very complex and multidimensional concept and should be included in all policies taking into account territorial diversity. In concrete terms, this project will hopefully contribute to improve Slovenia’s QoL monitoring system at regional level, being developing right now, by preparing regional development strategies for the next programming period.
JanjaPecar,ESPONQoLPSTmember –Slovenia
Expectation change over times, and often suddenly as we have seen in the first months of this year. At the same time, different things matter in different territories. What a person considers QoL to be, varies in the same way. Because of this variability, measuring QoL needs to include subjective and objective dimensions and to allow for a level of flexibility or weighting in all dimensions, making this a very complex subject. ESPON aims to provide useful evidence, knowledge transfer and policy learning to public authorities and other policy actors at all levels. The results of this project will hopefully be a considerable improvement for policymakers as it will contribute to a more effective and flexible regional development.
AnnaLeaGestsdóttir,ESPONQoLPSTmember – Iceland
References
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