Tomasz Sałański
DOI: lack
Vol no: 10
The article discusses the reasons for the establishment of territorial observatories and a description of the first related activities. The creation of such institutions in Poland is the result of proven European practices, where a network of spatial planning observatories was established at the beginning of this century. The first Polish experience is related to the construction of regional observatories of the labor market, in the earlier programming period of the European Union.