The goal of SUPER* is not merely to measure urbanization and land-use change in Europe, but also explain how it happens. For this purpose, the ESPON SUPER project carried out 11...
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Transport planning | 21.12.2020
SaMBA – video and photo competition on sustainable mobility in the Alps
SaMBA – video and photo competition on sustainable mobility in the Alps
Within this competition, the Interreg SaMBA Project – which promotes sustainable mobility solutions in the Alpine region – wants to collect visions of sustainable mobility in the...
On November 11 th, 2020, the governor of Lower Austria presented the new provinicial labour market strategy for the period 2021-2027, which also includes topics from the upcoming...
The ESPON SUPER team precented its project results online on December 18, 2020 in the session ‘Italian urban planning and the European context’. In this context, Mailin...
Spatial planning | 15.12.2020
OIR supports the development of regional planning instruments for Lower Austria
OIR supports the development of regional planning instruments for Lower Austria
The regional authority of the Austrian province of Lower Austria is currently developing new instruments for regional planning. With the general aims of strengthening the regional...
In 2018, the European Court of Justice decided that certain spatial restrictions for retail - resulting from a local zoning plan - may fall under the EU Services Directive 2006/...
Within the project “The challenge of land abandonment after 2020 and options for mitigating measures”, OIR together with the Federal Institute of Agricultural Economics, Rural and...
Stadt und Region | 11.11.2020
Masterplan for urban regeneration areas of Split in the City Council debate
Masterplan for urban regeneration areas of Split in the City Council debate
On November 4th 2020, the City Council of Split, together with representatives from the Ministry of Transport, Croatian Roads, Croatian Railway and from the EBRD, discussed the...
In parallel to the drafting the cross-border-cooperation programme Slovenia-Austria for the period 2021-2027, a Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) is conducted. OIR has...