ACTIVITIES AND PROSPECTS OF RESEARCH ACTIVITIES CONCERNING TOOLS OF TERRITORIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT ACTORS. Work Package 6 "Tools for Actors" of CAENTI.

This communication makes a state of the coordination activities carried out by the 6th work package "Tools for actors" of the CAENTI, Coordination Action of the European Network of Territorial Intelligence. The WP6 is linked to the design and dissemination of methods and tools of territorial intelligence accessible for the territorial actors and respectful of a sustainable development ethics. In 2006, its activity is focused on the definition of the specifications of a "CATALYSE" toolkit, starting from the experiment of the CAENTI participants, which contributed to the development of these tools since the beginning of the 1990s. The first months of the CAENTI were devoted to the definition of the specifications of the diagnosis and evaluation guide contents, which is a determinant tool of the method. From now on, this research results, which are presented in another communication, allow directing the research towards the protocols of statistical and spatial treatment and towards the specifications of the data processing tools.