AQR-IREA is pleased to announce the 2018 Barcelona Workshop on Regional and Urban Economics. Territorial resilience: mitigation and adaptation, to be held in Barcelona on October 4th – 5th, 2018.

The workshop will be focused on different aspects of Territorial Resilience. Its aim is to bring together cutting-edge research papers around two complementary and interrelated axis:

• Processes of mitigation (Resistance-Recovery), including topics such as migration analysis, inequality and social cohesion and labour market issues.
• Adaptive resilience (Re-orientation-Renewal), considering ways to improve regional conditions, such as human capital and educational mismatches, Entrepreneurship and self-employment, and Regional development strategies, encompassing globalization and trade and smart regional strategies.

Keynote speakers: 

• Alessandra Faggian (Gran Sasso Science Institute, L’Aquila)
• Péter Benczúr (Joint Research Centre, Ispra)

Audience: We will accommodate around 6-8 papers, to be presented in plenary sessions that will complement the keynote speaker’s presentation.

Important deadlines:

• Deadline for papers submission: Papers should be sent in pdf format to aqr_workshop@ub.edu before July 15th 2018. Extended abstracts or incomplete drafts will also be considered, but full papers will be favoured.
• Notification of acceptance: July 23rd 2018
• Preliminary programme: September 5th 2018
• Final programme: September 17th 2018

For more information, visit the Workshop website www.ub.edu/aqr/workshop/2018  or contact aqr_workshop@ub.edu.