Call: The World in Europe, global FDI flows towards Europe

The ESPON 2020 programme aims at promoting and fostering a European territorial dimension in development and cooperation by providing evidence, knowledge transfer and policy learning to public authorities and other policy actors at all levels.

Objective:

• foster cooperation in the process of policy development
• further strengthen evidence-informed policy-making across the EU territory
• contribute to enabling regions and cities to develop place-based responses to the Europe 2020 challenges of smart, sustainable and inclusive growth

The service should provide territorial evidence on FDI flows and trends over the last 10 years towards European countries, regions and cities. The activity should, among others, identify the reasoning of foreign direct investors, the territorial conditions and the factors that determine their location.
 

More concretely, the objective of this service contract is to receive answers to the following key policy questions:

• What are the global patterns and recent trends (10 years) of inward FDI flows to the EU, and how do they affect the overall territorial development of the European territory?
• What relevance do inward FDI flows have for regional growth and competitiveness as well as for reducing economic disparities in Europe (among more developed, transition and less developed regions)?
• What types of regions and cities receive foreign investments and for which economic activities (manufacturing and service industries and sub-categories)?
• What territorial factors seem to determine FDI location? How do macroeconomic factors and local regulations affect inward FDI flows territorially?
• What policy measures could be implemented to attract FDI in order to boost the competitiveness of EU territories at different scales (global, European, transnational, national, regional, urban)?

The tender shall be submitted either by one contractor only, by a group acting jointly or by a natural person acting on his/her own account. In case of a joint tender or subcontracting, there is no maximum number of participating partners.

The maximum available budget for this contract is 700,000 € (seven hundred thousand Euros), exclusive of VAT but inclusive of all other taxes, disbursements, travel, accommodation and delivery costs.

The full dossier of the terms of reference and annexes can be accessed, free of charge, by request via email to tenders@espon.eu or at Portail des Marchés Publics.

Managing authority
Ministry of Sustainable Development and Infrastructure Department for Spatial Planning and Development (DATER), Division for European Affairs
4, Place de l'Europe
L-2946 Luxembourg
Tel: +352 247-86934
Thiemo.Eser@mat.etat.lu, http://www.dat.public.lu

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