ESPON contribution to Integrated Territorial Strategies in Italy

INTERSTRAT offers a unique opportunity to meet the challenge of engaging policymakers and practitioners in using ESPON data, by building the capacity of relevant stakeholder networks through processes of transnational learning. Its focus is active learning, using ESPON analysis and related data in the development of integrated territorial development strategies at all levels of decision-making. It sets out a range of innovative and deliverable outputs, based on processes of transnational cooperation and learning, including a web-based forum that acts as a repository of examples of spatial practice and dissemination techniques and materials. It aims to maximise transnational cooperation that recognises the importance of working with the diversity of institutional practice and regional potentials that characterises European territories.