“ESPON Actarea tool” shall contribute to further developing and improving an interactive and user-friendly ESPON Toolbox. The ESPON Toolbox represents a core element in the knowledge base of ESPON for the support of effective territorial policies. It was considered of particular importance to build an integrated suite of user-friendly and interactive web-tools to assist policymakers in freely accessing and interrogating territorial indicators and data. This tool shall be based on the outcomes of the ESPON activity ACTAREA - Thinking and Planning in Areas of Territorial Cooperation. The results of this ESPON activity revealed to be useful in bridging the gap between territorial evidence and the implementation of soft cooperation, and to support the inclusion of evidence into participatory processes. The ACTAREA tool is targeted at policy makers and practitioners at all administrative levels (including cross-border and transnational groupings) and will enable the use of information and data by these particular target groups of stakeholders. The tool will be made available via the ESPON website and will therefore also be at the disposal of the general public, including researchers and students. Main Objective: The main objective is to contribute to the design and implementation of soft territorial cooperation instances. The tool to be produced in the framework of this activity have as starting point the outcomes of the ACTAREA project and in particular the following elements: mapshots - instrument for the design of cooperation in relation to geographical features, socio-economic patterns and (perceived) cooperation dynamics; institutional mapping are an instrument for the design of the cooperation in relation to other territorial collaborations and institutions dealing with territorial development.