Duration: 3 hours per week - 13 weeks [ECTS: 6]

Course outline

The aim of the course is to provide students with the knowledge and skills required to analyze regional development, spatial planning and policy and territorial cohesion. In particular the course will enable: (a) the understanding of the factors causing spatial disparities and affecting the formation of regional policy and (b) the analysis and critical assessment of the available policy instruments.

The course is organized as follows:

• Theories of spatial development
• Methodological issues and methods assessing regional disparities
• Regional development and disparities in Greece
• Regional development and disparities in the European Union
• The necessity of regional policy
• The dilemmas and targets of regional policy
• The overall environment and framework for regional policy
• The instruments of regional policy
• Regional policy in Greece
• Regional policy and the European Union