The spreading of fundamental methods and research design in territorial information analysis within the social sciences and humanities (WP4)

This activity pursues three objectives:

1. Improve the dissemination of the methods and tools of spatial analysis and of processing of territorial information within the social sciences and humanities. They are methods and tools of wide-applicability such as geographical and spatial analysis information systems, qualitative and quantitative data analysis and info metrics of the professional tools used by the territorial actors.
2. Increase the use of territorial information. In parallel, these methods and tools help improve the use of territorial data, within the social sciences and humanities, where their dissemination remains limited and unequal depending on the disciplines. An analysis of European Commission relevant projects and of existing information in the DGs that might be relevant to the field. This would be useful to avoid work on topics, which had been previously dealt with.
3. Define the concept of territory in the multi-field context of the integrated approach. The intelligent use of territorial information and of its instruments calls for the need to deepen the analysis of the concept of territory and of the processes of “territorialisation” (site specification). We will be particularly interested in the definition of the indicators of competitiveness of territory in a global approach.