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RSAI Newsletter: Call for Editors
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RSAI announces a search for an Editor or Editors of the RSAI Newsletter. The RSAI Newsletter is an important medium of information dissemination among RSAI members, making major announcements, reporting on news and pertinent events, and more generally on the life of our affiliated organizations and associations worldwide. It is currently published semi-annually.
The term of office of the current Editors ends in December 2013. The Board is now accepting applications for the position with a term of office of three years (renewable).
Those interested in the position should provide RSAI Council with the following:
- A letter of interest that includes information on the applicant’s experience with publications and a vision for the publication of the RSAI Newsletter for the next three years. The letter should indicate any support that may be provided by the host institution.
- A copy of the candidate’s curriculum vitae/resume.
Interested candidates are invited to include suggestions for proposed directions for the publication that would enhance the mission to disseminate news about RSAI, its affiliated organizations, and its members to our global community of researchers and practitioners. Currently, the RSAI Newsletter is published in electronic form as well as in hard copy. In order to better serve the needs of our worldwide membership, a team of Editor(s) based on different continent may be considered favorably. The Editor(s) must be fluent in English and will work closely with the office of the Executive Director to articulate coherently a strategy of news gathering and dissemination on print and electronic platforms.
The Editor(s) must be member(s) of RSAI.
Applications will be reviewed upon receipt. The deadline for applications is September 1, 2013. Applications should be sent in digital form (PDF only) to the Dr. Tomaz Dentinho, RSAI Executive Director, tomazdentinho@uac.pt.
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APLICANTS FOR: The Peter Nijkamp RSAI Research Encouragement Award for an Early Career Scholar from a Developing Country
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Dear Member of RSAI
Taking into account the rules the Nijkamp Award the members of the respective Jury would like to receive applicants.
The proposals can be sent to rsai@apdr.pt, if possible before the 15th of August 2013.
Best regards,
Tomaz Ponce Dentinho
Executive Director of RSAI
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Nominations for Councilor-at-large
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Dear members of RSAI,
Taking into account that nominations for Councilors to be elected at-large shall be made by the Council after solicitation of suggestions from the members of the Association (http://www.regionalscience.org/Table/Organisation/Constitution/). We inform that the proposals for councilor-at-large can be sent to tomazdentinho@uac.pt, before the 30th of September 2013.
Best regards,
Tomaz Ponce Dentinho
Executive Director
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Summary of the decisions taken at the last RSAI Council Meeting Bandung
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M-I. RSAI Council acknowledges the apologies.
M-II. Minutes of Ottawa Meeting (November 2012) are approved as amended by Jouke van Dijk.
M-III. The report of the LRPC was acknowledged.
M-IV. RSAI Council acknowledges the work accomplished by President Thill on behalf of RSAI.
M-V. RSAI Council reappoints Tomaz Dentinho for a three-year term starting January 2014 as Executive Director of RSAI.
M-VI. Council approves 2012 accounts as presented in Annex 1.
M-VII. Council approved the new General Principles and Guidelines for RSAI Fellows as described in Annex 2.
M-VIII. Starting immediately, the payment of RSAI membership fees can be made for one year, two years, five years, ten years or twenty years, as requested by sections.
M-IX. Individual membership fee is set at 50 Euros per year for normal members and 20 Euros per year for students under 33 years old. Individual membership is limited to two consecutive years for individuals living in a country where there is an established RSAI section. Individual members receive the same benefits as universal members.
M-X-1. RSAI Council approves the appointment of an ad hoc RSPP Evaluation Committee, its composition, its mission, and the timeline for reporting to Council.
M-X-2. A call for editors of the RSAI Newsletter must be made in a timely so that a final decision can be made in Atlanta.
M-X-3. Council supports efforts of President Thill to enhance the financial and non-financial terms of our publishing contract with Wiley-Blackwell.
M-X-4. The members of the RSAI Council present in Bandung approved unanimously the idea to create a new journal for emerging economies and supported the Presidency to get the required funding for the project.
M-XI. Council acknowledges the information shared on section development around the globe.
M-XII. RSAI Council restates that the World Congress should be in a world city and supports the Presidency to identify a venue no later than July.
M-XIII. RSAI Council approves the procedures for recognition of new RSAI sections (Annex 3) under the condition that they should be evaluated and adapted after two years.
M-XIV. RSAI Council approves the principle of featuring Regional Science schools on the RSAI Web site and the criteria for announcing Regional Science Schools (Annex 4).
M-XV-1. Council acknowledges the information on the Kohno Award 2013.
M-XV-2. The maximum cash value of the Peter Nijkamp Award is 750 Euros granted to participate in one the major international RSAI conferences.
M-XV-3. The jury is thanked and Torben Dall Schmidt and Peter Sandholt Jensen are congratulated for receiving the award (Martin Beckmann Prize as the best paper published in Papers in Regional Science in 2012).
M-XVI. RSAI Council supports the idea of a Strategic Planning Meeting to look into the future structure and functioning of RSAI and produce proposals to be assessed by the RSAI Council.
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