A regional resilience dashboard for the EU

This brief introduces the Regional Resilience Dashboard (RRDB), which extends the European Commission’s Resilience Dashboard (RDB) framework to the NUTS2 regional level. Measuring resilience at this scale is key to capturing socio-economic and geographic disparities across the EU and identifying the specific vulnerabilities and strengths of individual regions.

Monitoring regional resilience in a holistic way sheds light on regions’ vulnerabilities and capacities and provides potential avenues for policies to improve regions' resilience and preparedness. Regions’ vulnerabilities and capacities are strongly correlated, shaped by both structural and policyresponsive determinants. Structural characteristics— such as geographic location—are largely exogenous and fixed. In contrast, endogenous factors amenable to policy intervention—such as youth inactivity rates (NEET), levels of digitalization, and the scale of public and private investment—can significantly influence a region's resilience and development potential