ERSA News – Newsletter 1 – A new start in 2012

25/01/2012

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ERSA e-Newsletter

1st Edition 2012

Dear Members,
Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the launch of the NEW ERSA website bringing a new look and feel, which we believe, will help better enhance ERSA activities and image online. Further improvements are also scheduled.

There is still time to register for the Call for abtracts and papers for the ERSA Congress in Bratislava this year. Don’t miss this change to make your submission and be selected for the Bratislava edition.

The Summer School of 2012 in Umeå, Sweden, the call for this will be on the 1st of February. Please check the Summer School page.

Our apologies to ESPON for a spelling mistake in our previous Communication regarding the Call for abstracts and Papers (10th January).

Richard KELLY

Executive Director of ERSA

IN THIS ISSUE

ERSA 2012 Congress Bratislava

PRESS RELEASES

ERSA NEWS….

ERSA Office

ERSA 2012 Congress Bratislava

52nd European Congress of the Regional Science Association

Don’t miss the deadline for the CALL!

Open submission of abstracts and papers: 10 January 2012
Deadline of submission of abstracts and Papers (for R-sessions Young Scientist Sessions, and Special Sessions): 17th February 2012
Notification of acceptance of abstracts and papers: 16th April 2012

News for the Congress Programme
We are pleased to announce that several associations are interested in attending the Congress, these being the European Real Estate Association, Uni-Med and others to confirm (like an International Association for public transport sector).

All information on the general themes, special sessions, venue, visits and so on, are available on ERSA Congress 12.

Press Releases

Press Releases for the ERSA Congress

EIB Press Release 2012

Regional & Urban Development in an Aging Europe

led by the European Investment Bank (EIB)

Evolutionary Economic Geography Press Release 2012

By Ron Boschma, Full Professor in Regional Economics at the Department of Economic Geography at the Faculty of Geosciences, University of Utrecht, Netherlands. Director of the Urban and Regional Research Centre Utrecht.

ESPON Press Release 2012

ESPON projects attending the ERSA Congress 2012 are: innovation, attractiveness, green economy, territorial cooperation, rural areas, land use patterns, accessibility, services of general interest and the role of European seas in territorial development.

If any presenting Author(s) / Organisations attending the Congress want to do a Press Release, please contact the ERSA Office.
ERSA Members and Sections can make Press Releases on their specific activities as well, please inform the ERSA Office, at info@ersa.org

ERSA Upcoming Activities

AESOP 2012 Silver Jubilee Congress:

The ERSA President and Executive Director will represent ERSA, at the 26th Annual AESOP Congress on " Planning to Achieve/Planning in Dortmund Germany, on the 27th/28th January, 2012

5th Annual Meeting of the EIB-Universities Research Action

This will be attended by the ERSA President and Executive Director on the 2nd February 2012 at the EIB premises in Luxembourg.

Further information on all our news can be found at the ERSA Website

ERSA Office

The ERSA office welcomes your contribution.

You can send us an email to info@ersa.org , if you have any Books, Dissertations, Special Issues of Journals, & where you have been published. We can then circulate this as Press Releases from the ERSA office.

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Richard KELLY & Maristella ANGOTZI