ESPON Seminar Portorož , 2-3 June 2008Volker Schmidt Seiwert, BBR Bonn

Data and Maps Covering the Western Balkans

Volker Schmidt-Seiwert, BBR Bonn

ESPON Seminar Portorož , 2-3 June 2008Volker Schmidt Seiwert, BBR Bonn

ECP Lead Partner: ECP Greece, Urban Environment and Human Resources(UEHR) University Institute, Athens

ECP Partners: ECP Slovenia, Ministry of the Environment and Spatial Planning,

Office for Spatial DevelopmentECP Germany, Federal Office for Building and Regional

Planning (BBR)

The expert persons from the Western Balkans countries:Albania: Urban & Spatial Planning Design Studio Bosnia-Herzegovina: Federal Ministry of Physical Planning and Environment, Serbia and Montenegro: Republic Agency for Spatial PlanningFYROM: Ministry of Environment and Physical PlanningCroatia: Institute of Economics

ESPON Seminar Portorož , 2-3 June 2008Volker Schmidt Seiwert, BBR Bonn

Aim of the Project:

Integration of the Western Balkan area island into the ESPON grey hole

ESPON Seminar Portorož , 2-3 June 2008Volker Schmidt Seiwert, BBR Bonn

Main tasks of the project: • Availability check of data in the Western Balkan area • Selection of a minimum set of core territorial indicators• Compatibily with the ESPON territorial indicators

Results: Selected ESPON core indicators for the Western Balkans Classification of European regions benchmarking the regions of the Western Balkan in European comparison

ESPON Seminar Portorož , 2-3 June 2008Volker Schmidt Seiwert, BBR Bonn

• Regional delineation comparable to NUTS not yet appropriate (only Croatia was official Candidate Country at the project running time)

• Diversity of statistical information due to territorial developments

Experiences made

• Diverse regional delineation in different parts of the same country

• International comparable economic data available on Dollar basis only

• Unemployment data on regional level in national definition only

• Data on population structures and main social information on basis of census data only

ESPON Seminar Portorož , 2-3 June 2008Volker Schmidt Seiwert, BBR Bonn

ESPON Seminar Portorož , 2-3 June 2008Volker Schmidt Seiwert, BBR Bonn

Classification of the Regions: Demography

ESPON Seminar Portorož , 2-3 June 2008Volker Schmidt Seiwert, BBR Bonn

Demography: Population development

ESPON Seminar Portorož , 2-3 June 2008Volker Schmidt Seiwert, BBR Bonn

Classification of the Regions: Economy

ESPON Seminar Portorož , 2-3 June 2008Volker Schmidt Seiwert, BBR Bonn

Ecomomy: Develpment of GDPPer capita

ESPON Seminar Portorož , 2-3 June 2008Volker Schmidt Seiwert, BBR Bonn

Classification of the Regions: Labour market

ESPON Seminar Portorož , 2-3 June 2008Volker Schmidt Seiwert, BBR Bonn

Labour market: Employment rate

ESPON Seminar Portorož , 2-3 June 2008Volker Schmidt Seiwert, BBR Bonn

Labour market: Unemployment rate