30 April 2024 – Nr 04/2024

The issue includes: ERSA2024 Congress Internal Communication ERSA Section’s Agendas new and Update Journals ongoing calls -reminder Members publish Vacancies

Dear Members of ERSA, dear Colleagues,   I hope this finds you well.   I would like to start by congratulating and welcoming on board two ERSAC Representatives, Fernando as President of the Spanish Section, for his second term, and Danny Ben-Shahar, the new Chair of the Israeli Regional Science Association. I wish Fernando and Danny every success in their new responsibilities, assuring them ERSA close support whenever needed.   We look forward to the final response to our upcoming ERSA Congress, with registrations increasing every day. We have already guaranteed the participation of an excellent number of regional scientists and experts from across the globe. If you have not already registered, we encourage you to take advantage of the early bird fees, which expire tomorrow (with an extra day).   Have a good reading of all opportunities presented in this newsletter.   With best wishes   Roberta Capello, ERSA President

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Internal Communication

Israeli Section: Danny Ben-Shahar is the new Chair of the Israeli Section We are delighted to communicate that Danny Ben-Shahar (Tel Aviv University – Coller School Of Management) has been elected as the new Chair of the Israeli Section. The election took place on 16 April during the Annual meeting of the Israeli Regional Science Association.

Spanish Section: Fernando Rubiera Morollón reelected Last month, Fernando Rubiera Morollón has been reelected as President of the AECR for the second term (2024-2028). The new board of directors will start working on 1 July. We wish Danny and Fernando a lot of success!

Sections’ Events news and ongoing calls

LAST REMINDER Apply for the valuable Roberto Camagni Postdoctoral Scholarship Application Deadline: 15 May 2024 more

Spanish Section: AECR International Conference on Regional Science 2024 Sustainability, water and territory: regional strategies for the challenges of the 21st century 16-18 October 2024, Cuenca, Spain Special Session Proposals deadline: 15 May 2024 Submission deadline: 14 June 2024 more

VII Seminar for New Academic Researchers (SNAR) 2024. 26-27 September 2024, Sevilla, Spain Hybrid event Abstract Submission deadline: 10 June 2024 more

MRTT XXII Annual Meeting 20 years in the European Union: Catching up, territorial policy and inequalities 17-18 October 2024, Szeged, Hungary Deadline for session proposals: 10 June 2024 more

Other Events

NEW Launch of the EU regional Social Progress Index 2.0 – 2024 edition 23 May, 10.00-13.00 Brussels, Belgium Elisa Ferreira, European Commissioner for Cohesion and Reforms, will open the event, followed by the presentation of the last findings of the index and debate with the participants.   Registration is free but mandatory Deadline: 16 May, 17:00 CET more

CALL REMINDER NARSC at ASSA/AEA Meetings January 3-5, 2025, San Francisco, USA Drs. Sandy Dall’erba (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and Dawn Thilmany (Colorado State University) are inviting submissions for the 2025 NARSC session at the AEA meeting (American Economic Association). Theme of the 2025 NARSC-AEA Meeting: “Preparing today’s agrifood supply chain to the challenges of tomorrow”. If interested, please submit your paper or long abstract (1-2 pages) including authors’ name, affiliation and contact information to Sandy Dall’erba at dallerba@illinois.edu by 1 May 2024.

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Journals – new issue

Investigaciones Regionales – Journal of Regional Research Issue 59 – 2nd volume of 2024 now available ! Including European Policy article by Julián Moral-Carcedo, Carlos Llano-Verduras “How integrated regional financial markets are in Europe? A first gauge based on active securitised loans” >>see all articles here

More on all ongoing journals’ calls

ERSA-RSAI Members Publish

Regional Industrial Geography in Contemporary China Editor: Canfei He, Peking University, China Routledge 2024

Evolution of New Working Spaces: Changing Nature and Geographies Editors: Ilaria Mariotti, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Elisabete Tomaz, DINAMIA’CET, ISCTE, Portugal Grzegorz Micek, Jagiellonian University, Poland Carles Méndez-Ortega, Open University of Catalonia, Spain Springer 2024

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New publications to share? Your are member of the RSAI-ERSA Community and you have recently published a book, grasp this opportunity to inform us about it. We are looking for · Books published in 2024 · Preferably written in English Send an email to ersa.member@ersa.org

Vacancies

PhD positions, Leiden University, The Netherlands Application deadline: 30 April Assistant/Associate professor position on Post-growth Economics (Tenure Track), Wageningen University, The Netherlands, Application deadline: 13 May read more

If you want to share an announcement interesting for our community, Send us an email to office@ersa.org and we will promote it via our channels

To Keep up-to-date with all events on the agenda, visit our upcoming events page on our website.