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COVID-19 - 21.04.2022

Territorial impacts of the COVID-19 and policy responses in European regions and cities

The COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc on everyone’s lives. At the same time, local and regional governments face the most hard test to their capacity to achieve political, economic and social responses to this crisis. What solutions have they come up with to minimise setbacks and to change the direction for the better? What recommendations can we draw from these insights?

These are some of the questions we will be examining in an online discussion on “Territorial impacts of Covid-19 and policy answers in European regions and cities”, on 11 May 2022.

This workshop will present the key overall policy findings and recommendations to emerge from the ESPON Covid 19 project. The workshop will bring together the Council of European Municipalities and Regions (CEMR), associations of local and regional governments, and other relevant networks, in an interactive process designed to:

discuss and share information on the regional policy responses to the crisis;
learn about innovative good practice policies that emerged during the pandemic;
assess project recommendations (policy, governance, territorial and financial) that can help regions recover from the crisis and build resilience in the future.

CEMR will be represented by Durmish Guri, Director - External Resources and Knowledge Strategy, and Carol Thomas, Adviser – Governance and Institutional Relations.

You can find the agenda attached and you can register today following the link here. The link for the workshop will be sent to the registered participants some days before the event.