ERSA March e-news: ERSA2018 Call extension – other Events – Vacancies –

05/03/2018

March Issue – N°1

The issue contains:

· ERSA2018: Call for Abstracts Extension deadline – Keynote and Plenary Sessions Update

· ERSA Summer School 2018 and next ERSA-REGIO Academic Lecture

· REGION news

· ERSA Section News and Events Update

· Vacancies

ERSA2018: More opportunities and reasons to be in Cork!

Call for Abstracts: Deadline EXTENDED until Friday March 9th!

Over 800 Submissions so far, the deadline for submission has been extended to March 9th, 2018 (GMT+1), submit it now, we are waiting for you.

Don’t miss this last chance to be part of it!

Submit Now

Plenary and Keynote Sessions Update

The Local Organising Committee is delighted to update on their Keynote and Plenary Sessions.

Wednesday August 29th at 9.00, Professor Serge Rey will be the keynote Speaker of the The Spatial Economic Analysis Plenary Lecture.

It will be followed by be Papers in Regional Science Keynote Lecture to be given by Professor Ron Martin. His presentation is titled “The Resilience of Cities to Economic Shocks: Four Recessions and Brexit”.

On Thursday August 30th, Professor Eveline van Leeuwen will present the Regional Science Policy and Practice Keynote Lecture on urban-rural differences in policy and practice.

Friday August 31st will have the REGION Young Regional Scientists Roundtable. With this roundtable, the Programme Committee aim to provide a forum for young regional scientists to share their perspectives on the discipline.

We invite you to learn more about these exciting lectures on the Congress website

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ERSA Summer School &

ERSA-REGIO Upcoming Lecture

There is still time to send your application!

The 31st ERSA Summer School “Regional Policy Analysis and Planning – Evaluation Theory and Practice” will be held from 1st to 8th July, 2018 in Bratislava.

During the summer school programme, selected participants will present their research and get feedback from proven scholars. They will also learn and discuss new challenges in policy evaluation theory and practice with prominent lecturers including: Jan Fidrmuc, Ugo Fratesi, Gunther Maier, Joaquim Oliveira Martins, Guido Pellegrini, Andrés Rodríguez-Pose, Attila Varga

Please note: Places are limited to 30 participants.

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2nd ERSA-REGIO Lecture with Henri de Groot

We are delighted to confirm that Prof. Henri de Groot (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands ) will be the lecturer of our upcoming ERSA-REGIO Academic lecture. His lecture will focus on Opportunities and Challenges: He will speak about his research on the importance of regional development for cities, showing how cities in the EU combine opportunities with challenges, also in relation with Cohension Policy post2020 .Discussant: Prof. Céline Rozenblat, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Save the date:

23 April 2018 from 15:00-17:00 at DG REGIO premises, Brussels, Belgium. Registration link will be communicated in due time.

Subscribe to ERSA Youtube channel and learn more on ongoing research

See all videos of recent ERSA-REGIO Lectures on ERSA Channel including: Riccardo Crescenzi, Ron Boschma, Raquel Ortega-Argilès, Roberta Capello, Frank van Oort, Daniela-Luminita Constantin, John Bachtler, Michaela Trippl, …..

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REGION

Sierdjan Koster is the new managing editor of REGION

We welcome the new Managing Editor of REGION: Sierdjan Koster (Associate Professor at the University of Groningen).”As you maybe aware, REGION, the online and open access journal of ERSA, has now been included in Scopus. This increases the visibility and status of the journal and you are invited to profit from this and keep on sending in your work” says Sierdjan Koster.

ERSA Sections News and Events Update

CERUP 2018,Challenges in Evaluating Regional and Urban, 8-9 March 2018, Rome, Italy

Keynote Speakers:

Giuseppe Arbia, Professor of Economic Statistics, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

Martin Huber, Professor of Applied Econometrics, University of Fribourg

8th Slovak Winter Seminar of Regional Science – Regional science and practice of regional policy-March 14-17, 2018,Terchová

Keynote speaker:Vicente Royuela, who will present his research on Agglomeration economies in developing countries. Vicente is Professor of Applied Economics at University of Barcelona

5th APDR Congress

“Circular Economy: Urban Metabolism and Regional Development”

5-6 July, 2018, Lisbon, Portugal

The call for papers and Special Session Proposals

is open!

Key dates:

Deadline for Special Session proposals: March 31st, 2018

Deadline for Abstracts submissions: May 6th, 2018

55th colloquium of ASRDLF

4-6 July 6, 2018, Caen, France

Call for Abstract deadline: 15 March 2018

Keynote Speakers and debate:

Prof. Roberta Capello, Politecnico di Milano

Prof. Roberto Camagni, Politecnico di Milano

Debate around the topic « Territorial Sciences and regional science, which interlinks are possible? »

Prof. André Torre, INRA – AgroParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay

Prof. Claude Grasland, Université Paris Diderot – Sorbonne Paris Cités

A new board for GfR

In the general assembly on Feb. 21st, Gesellschaft für Regionalforschung, the German Speaking Section of ERSA, elected the new board.

We warmly welcome Annekatrin Niebuhr, the new President of GfR as well as the other new members of the board including : Matthias Firgo (vice-president),

Stephan Brunow (vice-president),

Dieter Pennerstorfer (scientific secretary)

Franz-Josef Bade (treasurer)

Other events supported by ERSA

16th ISISA Islands of the World Conference

“The changing futures of islands”

10 – 14 June 2018, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands

Keynote speakers:

Prof.dr. Beate Ratter (University of Hamburg)

Identity in „Liminality“; The Wadden Sea islands in a constant state of flux

Prof. Harvey Armstrong (University of Sheffield)

The Economic performance of small Islands: challenges and oppurtunities

Prof. dr. Gert Oostindie (director KITLV)

Small-scale, insularity and (non-)sovereignty: postcolonial legacies and practices in governance

21st Uddevalla Symposium 2018

“Diversity, Innovation, Entrepreneurship – Regional, Urban, National and International Perspectives”

June 14-16, 2018, Luleå, Sweden

Keynote Speakers include: Prof. David B. Audretsch (Indiana University), Prof. Garry Bruton, (Texas Christian University), Prof. Michael Fritsch, (Friedrich-Schiller Universität), Prof. Annalisa Sannino (Tampere University), ….

Vacancies

Looking for a new Opportunity to boost your career?

· 10 Job opportunities at the University of Groningen,Faculty of Spatial Sciences

· Call for international Grants on Sustainable Urbanisation from NC, JPI Urban Europe network and Chinese funding agency NSFC

· Postdoc Research Fellow – Economic geography/Urban geography