EPRC are part of a consortium which has been awarded the ESPON project – ‘Territorial Evidence Support for European Territorial Cooperation Programmes’

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EPRC has been awarded the contract to undertake an impact evaluation for the 2014-2020 Northern Periphery and Arctic (NPA) INTERREG Programme.

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EPRC's Prof John Bachtler gave a presentation to the Cross-Party Group on Industrial Communities in the Scottish Parliament on the prospects for a coherent approach to regional policy in the UK after Brexit

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Seminar on 'Dreamers or Cassandras? Intellectuals and the Design of European Monetary Union'.

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Expectations and reality

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For the past 30 years, EU Cohesion Policy has played an influential role in setting priorities for policies aimed at dealing with the effects of European economic integration on regional and social disparities. Although, latterly, the amount of money spent in the UK through the European Structural and Investment Funds has declined, EU programmes have had a disproportionate effect on the design and implementation of UK policies shaping regional and local economic and social development. A new paper by John Bachtler and Iain Begg in the Journal of Social Policy ‘Cohesion policy after Brexit: the economic, social and institutional challenges’ examines the implications of the loss of Structural Funds for UK regional and social development. It argues that filling the policy vacuum will be far from straightforward because complementary national policies and institutional frameworks have lacked consistency or coherence; the sub-national level, in particular, will need a fresh approach following Brexit.

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EPRC's Professor John Bachtler presented to the Conference '100 Years of Finnish Development' on the future direction of regional policy in Europe.

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Within EU institutions, there is an increasing perception of the need to revisit the European approach to growth and revive the European social model.

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Brexit and regional development in the UK: new EPRC chapter

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Five major questions for the future of Cohesion policy in the debate on the new Multiannual Financial Framework after 2020

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