- Governance and partnership for delivering effective place-based interventions,
- Territorial cooperation and macro-regional approaches,
- Delivering a more results-oriented policy, which considers issues such as conditionalities, enhancing programming and evaluation practice,
- EU cohesion policy and its role in achieving the aims of Europe 2020 strategy,
- Budgetary politics in the wake of a new programming period 2014-2020,
- New financial instruments.