This inception report provide therefore the opportunity to propose a clearer view of the activities of the ESPON DB project than the answer to the tender where the template was not adapted to the specificities of our activities. If we admit that networking & coordination or diffusion are core part of our project and not peripheral activities, we can define our work plan for the next 30 months as a set of 4 main field of activities divided in 14 Work packages, as presented in Figure logical and hierarchical presentation of the project has been précised in a PPT.