This tight agenda introduced many difficulties, in particular because it did not take into account the fact that most administrative offices at LP and PP premises and most researchers involved in the project were not available during the summer period (15 July until end of August). ii) The timing between the launching of the ESPON 2013 DataBase and the start of other ESPON projects is too short: other ESPON projects selected under Priority 1 were also launched in July, . less than one or two weeks after the beginning of the ESPON 2013 DB project. As a result, the.