ERSA Monthly news & updates September Issue – 09/2025

In this issue you will find: ERSA2025 Plenary Sessions Recordings ERSA2026 News Journals news Upcoming events Sections news Other events Publication We wish you a good reading

#ERSA2025

ERSA Congress 2025 Plenary sessions Recordings are now in YouTube

Couldn’t attend all the plenaries? Or want to revisit the highlights? The full recordings of the ERSA 2025 plenary sessions from Athens are now available on our official YouTube channel!  Plenary Recordings:  Opening Ceremony Watch here Keynote Lecture: “Firm Roots, Strategic Agility: The Lasting Impact of EU Cohesion Policy” by Themis Christophidou, Director-General, DG REGIO – European Commission Watch here Keynote Lecture: “Regional Science or Spatial Economics?” by Prof. Jacques-François Thisse, UCLouvain, Belgium Watch here ERSA Prize 2025 Keynote: “Europe’s Geography Problem: Reconciling Growth with Equity” by Prof. Michael Storper, London School of Economics (LSE), UK Watch here  Closing Ceremony Watch here Feel free to revisit, share, and get inspired!

#ERSA2026

Stay Tuned! Special Session Submissions Opening Soon for ERSA2026 Congress On October 10th, submissions for Special Sessions for the upcoming ERSA Congress 2026 in Sofia will officially open. Do you have a hot topic to propose? Start preparing your ideas, there’s a limited window to submit!  Deadline for submissions will be announced soon. Don’t miss the opportunity to shape the scientific agenda of #ERSA2026. Stay tuned via our website, newsletter and social media for the official call and guidelines!

Journals News

Global Challenges and Regional Science (GCRS) Check out the latest paper: Volume 3 – September 2025 The great challenge for local labour markets. Lovely and lousy jobs in the digital era.   Authors:Roberta Capello, Simona Ciappei, Camilla Lenzi more

Regional Science Policy & Practice (RSPP) Call for Papers | RSPP Special Issue: Impacts of War in Ukraine: Perspectives and Challenges Guest Editors: Kateryna Zabarina – University of Warsaw. Submissions deadline: 31 December 2025 more Check out the latest paper: Volume 17, Issue 12 Integrating cycling tourism, e-mobility and local development: A spatial model to plan slow tourist paths for E-bike Author: Luca Pirolo, Rossella Moscarell more

Papers in Regional Science (PiRS) Latest Article: Volume 104, Issue 6 The role of spatial structures in shaping regional economic resilience: Evidence from OECD regions based on urban core configurations Authors:Seulki Kim, Euijune Kim more

New Article in REGION Vol. 12 No. 2 (2025) Latest Article: Know your competitor! Analyzing and predicting the location of competing stores : The case study of Valora at Swiss railway stations   Authors: Thomas Wieland more

New Article in Review of Regional Research (RRR) August 2025 Latest Article: Is there an impact of the Structural Funds in innovation on business performance? Analysis through the ERDF-Innterconecta programme in Andalusia Authors: Juan Gabriel Brida, Bibiana Lanzilotta & Martín Olivera more

Investigaciones Regionales – Journal of Regional Research has published the 62nd Issue, the second volume corresponding to 2025. European Regional Policy Measuring achievements: Can cohesion policy programmes effectively monitor their performance? Authors: Francesco Molica, Anabela M. Santos, Andrea Conte Access to all publications here

Last paper in Romanian Journal of Regional Science Vol.19, No.1, Summer, Issued June 2025 Latest Article:Economic and political dependencies in cultural voting: A gravity model analysis of Eurovision   Authors: Alina M. Schoenberg, Dimitrios G. Ierapetritis, Chiara Foramitti, Christopher Schwand more

Journal of Regional & Urban Economics (JRUE/RERU) Check out the journal’s latest issue: PSDR Special Issue: 25 Years of the PSDR Program Guest Editors: André Torre & Frédéric Wallet, with a commentary from Prof. Roberta Capello more   Do not miss the upcoming issue: Varia, with a tribute to Jean Paelinck, insights on territorial metabolism, poverty, circular agri-food chains, real estate dynamics and housing policy. Follow the journal’s LinkedIn page so you don’t miss it ! more

Upcoming events

Spanish Section XLIX International Conference Regional Economic Development (RED): In search of improving the Economic, Political and Social Welfare of each Region 15-17 October 2025, School of Business & Economics of the University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain. more

Bulgarian Section 2025 Conference Regional science – concepts, theories and practices in SouthEast Europe 14-15 November 2025, Sofia, Bulgaria Registration is OPEN! Download here for the full announcement.

Polish Section The 41th International Scientific Conference “Contemporary Determinants and Directions of Development of Industry and Services” Cracow, Poland, 1-2 December 2025 The registration is open until 30 September. More information here

9th Central European Conference in Regional Science (CERS) Sustainability-driven territorial development. Challenges for CEECs 27-29 November 2025, Cluj-Napoca, Romania The deadline for abstract submission has been extended to 10 October. More details at https://www.cers.rrsa.ro/

Baltic Section ERSA Baltic section invites to the 18th Jonas Pranas Aleksa international interdisciplinary scientific conference “DEVELOPMENT OF THE STATE ROLE IN THE XXI CENTURY: NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT”, which will be held on the 3rd of October, 2025 in Šiauliai Academy of Vilnius University (Šiauliai, Lithuania). This year the conference is dedicated for the main topic: “From Data to Impact: Evidence-Based Policymaking for Smart and Sustainable Regions” Registration is open until September 19th, 2025, online: https://forms.office.com/e/1e97KQZJCp

Hungarian Section Outstanding Young Regionalist Award 2025 Call for Applications. Submission deadline: 15 September 2025. XIV Conference of Young Regionalists Regional science education and workshops in the Carpathian Basin – “Hommage Gyula Horváth” Application deadline 1 September 2025 Hungarian Regional Science Association 23rd Annual Meeting Turbulent times, regional challenges Veszprém, 30-31 October 2025 University of Pannonia Faculty of Business and Economics more details here 8th Geography of Innovation Conference Corvinus University, Budapest, 28 – 30 January 2026 Extended abstract or paper submission deadline: 14 July 2025 More details available here XIV Scientific Conference on Landscape History – History Creating Landscape Pécs, 5-6 February 2026 more

British and Irish Section The British and Irish Section is delighted to confirm that their 2026 annual conference will take place at Queens University, Belfast on May 13 and 14. Chair of the Local Organising Committee, Dr Kevin Mulligan, says that “the Belfast conference will be a great occasion, and it is wonderful to see the conference returning to Northern Ireland for the first time since 2007”. Belfast is served by two airports, Belfast International Airport and the George Best Belfast City Airport, with good connectivity to the rest of Europe. Dublin Airport has flights to the US, Asia, and Africa and has a direct bus connection to Belfast. Dublin to Belfast is two hours by bus or train. There are also ferry connections to Belfast from Liverpool and Cairnryan in Scotland. So please mark the date in your diary and keep an eye on the Section website for more details. Call for abstracts opens soon.

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Sections News

Dear colleagues, Next October will take place the XLIX International Conference on Regional Science, which will be held from the 15th to the 17th of October 2025 at the Pamplona Campus of the University of Navarra at the School of Business and Economics. For the XLIX edition, we have chosen the slogan: “Regional Economic Development (RED): In search of improving the Economic, Political and Social Welfare of each Region,” which reflects the importance of addressing, in a comprehensive and participatory manner, the political, social, and economic problems that affect the regions in a context of enhancing economic growth and prosperity of different areas within a country. Here you can find the program: https://reunionesdeestudiosregionales.org/pamplona2025/en/program/ We look forward to seeing you soon in Pamplona. Best regards, The Organizing Committee

Other Events

ANZRSAI (the Australian and New Zealand section of RSAI) The ANZRSAI 48th Annual Conference will be held at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, on 1-2 December 2025, jointly with the Regional Studies Association. The deadline for submission of abstracts has been extended to 26 September 2025. Escape the northern winter for a conference in New Zealand! For more details: https://www.anzrsai.org/conference/

Publication

New publication at Springer Peter Batey, David Plane, Great Minds in Regional Science, Vol. 3, 2025  Learn more

New publication at Springer Luigi Fusco Girard, Karima Kourtit, Peter Nijkamp, The Future of Liveable Cities, 2023  Learn more

New publication at Springer João Romão, Economic Geography of Tourism, 2025  Learn more

Share Your 2025 Book Publication with the RSAI-ERSA Community Are you a member of the RSAI-ERSA Community and have recently published a book (preferably written in English)? Don’t miss this opportunity to share your work with our network send the details to office@ersa.org.