Crossing borders, closing gaps: new evidence on housing and gender equality across EU regions

What makes a region thrive? Understanding what drives regional prosperity and where challenges and opportunities lie is essential to designing tailored solutions. This EWRC satellite event showcases how the Joint Research Centre’s (JRC) research and data can reveal regional differences and unlock untapped potential, helping policymakers design more place-based responses. Through two expert sessions focusing on women’s contribution to regional economies and cross-border housing markets, the event explores how people, places and policies interact to create stronger, more resilient communities. Policy debate: Women Driving Regions Forward: Achievement, Innovation and Social Progress Panel discussion: Housing markets in EU cross-border regions: turning borders into opportunities