Import Type: TED

This territorial study addresses the future policy needs, linked to the inclusion of the cross-border dimension in the Czechia’s Regional Development Strategy 2028+; for this purpose, it is important to understand whether and where Czech cross-border functional areas regions are present, and how their development dynamics and challenges differ. Through new granular territorial evidence and tailored recommendations, it will produce a comprehensive overview of the Czech cross-border functional areas, also alleviating the absence of a a standardised approach to the monitoring of these areas through a cross-border monitoring toolkit enabling long-term observation.

The subject of this call for tenders is “Publications on EU Policy Initiatives and Methodological Assistance on Indicators”.
The main objective of this contract is to purchase services in the fields of statistical data analysis and maintenance, methodological assistance, as well as drafting and editing of statistical publications. The contractor is expected to deliver the following products and any future follow-up or complementary publications in the framework of the contract:
1. Annual monitoring report on the progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in an EU context and related publications such as „Key messages”, Statistics Explained articles, country assessments and (interactive) visualisations;
2. Publications to support key EU policy initiatives, including (interactive) visualisations.
Eurostat has been publishing the annual EU SDG monitoring report since 2017. Related communication material and diverse publications supporting key EU policy initiatives have also been published under past contracts. A continuation of the series of publications is expected of the contractor, with necessary updates and modernisations.