Policymakers in the field of territorial cohesion and development need evidence-based information that supports them in creating awareness on possible territorial impacts during the policymaking processes of sectoral EU policy and legislation. Within ESPON ARTS, OIR and its partners developed a hands-on, easily to handle tool for territorial impact assessment of policy interventions, like e.g. EU-Directives. A participatory workshop approach for identifying systemic relations was combined with a set of indicators to describe the sensitivity of European Regions. This allows a first assessment and cartographic representations of those regions that might be affected by an EU-Directive in the fields of economy, environment and society. The tangible product for decision makers has lead to a number of implementation activities of the project.
