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ERSA E-Newsletter 3 – ERSA, Papers, Books, Sections, Sponsors and more…

ERSA E-Newsletter 3  – ERSA, Papers, Books, Sections, Sponsors and more…

 

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ERSA e-Newsletter

3rd Edition 2012

 

Latest News on    

  • New Releases
  • Upcoming Activities 
  • Sponsors / Exhibitors  
  • Cohesion Policy CALL

  

New Releases:

  

Societies in Motion: Innovation, Migration and Regional Transformation by Peter Nijkamp and Philip McCain is dedicated to an ex-President of the Israeli Section,  Professor Dani Shefer, on the occasion of his retirement.

 

Proximités Territoriales by André TORRE and Jean-Eudes BEURET on published by Economica Anthropos in Paris

 

What about people in European Regional Science? by Vicente Royuela, ERSA is pleased to announce the release of this paper.

  

Review of the Investigaciones Regionales – The volume of Spring (number 22) of the journal of the Spanis
h Regional Science Association
(AECR) Investigaciones Regionales is available online (
www.investigacionesregionales.com). This last volume is a multidisciplinary and international compilation with papers both in Spanish and English.  

 

RSAI News: – The jury of the Martin Beckmann Annual Award for 2012 consisting of Masahisa Fujita, Jean H. Paelinck, John M. Quigley and Jouke van Dijk have selected for the Martin Beckmann Prize 2012 as clear winner(s) Michael Fritsch and Holger Graf for their paper  

 

How sub-national conditions affect regional innovation systems: The case of the two Germany’s more information HERE   

 

Thank you,

 

Richard KELLY 

Executive Director of ERSA 

 

IN THIS ISSUE

ERSA 2012 Congress Bratislava

ERSA Upcoming Events

ERSA Office

Call for Paper 2012

ERSA 2012 Congress Bratislava

 

News on the Registration of the Congress:  

Over 500 participants have registered from across 53 countries!

European Commission and OECD representatives are to attend the Congress, as well as the European Investment Bank (EIB).

 

Cohesion Policy Call: Expression of Interest for Urban and Regional Analysts.  

 

To all ERSA Members that experts should register now, as many of the issues to be considered are already beginning to arise. Click HERE      

 

Here is the link to the RIS3 guide on how to develop such strategies:  

 

       The web link for the two calls for urban and regional analysts to register

       as experts working with the European Commission Directorate-General for Regional Policy is:  

     

http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/tender/expression_en.cfm

 

       A reminder to register for the ERSA 2012 Congress   

 

Two easy steps to register:  

  • 1. You have made a submission and/or have an access key already.Go to the Congress Participant Area and enter your personal Access Key. Click on the "Register" button of the upper toolbar to have access to the Registration Form. If you do not remember your Access Key or have lost it, click on "Forgot Access Key".      
  • 2. You don’t have an access key yet. Click HERE to register!   

Don’t forget to book your hotel now! 

Enjoy Bratislava differently, see our offer on cultural tours! 

 

  • Please note: We recommend to book your hotel room well in advance. The allocation of rooms will be made on a "first come, first served" basis. Rates are guaranteed until May 31st, 2012
  • To book your hotel and make a reservation for an optional tour:  Accommodation & Tours           

Still time to be a Sponsor / Exhibitor at the Congress:- Brochure is still available online HERE.

 

To complement our Scientific Programme at the ERSA 2012 Congress in Bratislava, we are offering participants an additional place for valuable knowledge and networking.  

 
Whether you represent an Association, Financial Institution, GIS Software provider Planning Organisation, Policy OrganisationPublisher, Institution, Real Estate Association, Think Thank, Transportation Organisation, and others, don’t miss this chance to showcase your organisation!  

 

Maximize your exposure by exhibiting during the Congress.  

 

For more more details of our offer, please download ERSA 2012 Congress Partners or contact directly richard.kelly@ersa.org  

  

Here are some of the organizations who will be present at the Congress

  

  • Edward Elgar Publishing Academic independent international publisher specialising in economics, law, business and management and public policy.
  • Springerproviding throughout the world, scientific and professional communities with superior specialist information – produced by authors and colleagues across cultures in a nurtured collegial atmosphere of which we are justifiably proud.    
  • Wiley-Blackwell serves the world’s research and scholarly communities, and is the largest publisher for professional and scholarly societies. Wiley-Blackwell’s programs encompass journals, books, major reference works, databases, and laboratory manuals, offered in print and electronically.
  • Liverpool University Pressdisseminates high quality scholarly research and to promote learning and culture through the publication of books and journals.  The Press is a global ambassador for the University of Liverpool, dispatching tens of thousands of copies of our publications worldwide each year, all bearing the imprimatur of an internationally-focused, research-led, Russell Group university.   
  • Geo:connexion International –  the leading business-to-business monthly for users of spatial professionals across the globe. Covering applications of GIS, GPS and remote sensing within industry sectors, such as telecoms, emergency services, public safety, government, utilities and retailing.  

         GEO:connexion International, is offering a FREE annual subscription,  

         email: subscription@geoconnexion.com, quoting "ERSA"    

  • INOMICSis an international service for students and professionals in economics and finance. They offer a search for conferences, jobs, programs, courses and economics resources that can be accessed online, or you can have your customized updates delivered to your inbox via our weekly.

  ERSA is pleased to announce the collaboration with INOMICS in providing jobs online for  

  all ERSA Members/Sections, for students and universities. Further information to follow to  

  all ERSA Sections. 

  

 

  

      

 

 

ERSA Upcoming Events

 

ERSA Section Information

German Speaking Section

 

5th Summer Conference in Regional Science of the German Speaking Section, please click HERE 

 

Nordic Section

 

Call for applicants for an assistant/associate professorship at the Department of Border Studies, University of Southern Denmark, in Soenderborg, Denmark.. MORE 

 

Spanish Section

 

The Spanish Section are please to announce that Prof. Juan R. Cuadrado-Roura, has been awarded an "Honoris Causa PhD". He is a very well-known academic and one of the pioneers of Regional Studies in Spain.. MORE 

 

CALL for Abstracts – June 20th, 2012 for the Bilbao Congress – "The Challenge of Regional Development in a world of changing hegemonies: Knowledge, competitiveness and austerity " in November 2012.   

Further information in English can be found by clicking… HERE  

 

Congratulations to Jurdi Suriñach who is now the new President of the Asociación Española de Ciencia Regional (AECR ) has renewed the Board of the Association for the next 4 years. The new period will begin the 1st of July 2012 until the end June 2016.  

 
 Jordi Surinach 

Jordi Suriñach is Professor of Applied Economics, Director of the Research Institute of Applied Economics (IREA), and member of the AQR-IREA research group. He was the Chairman of the 51st Barcelona ERSA Conference in 2011.      

  

 
Romanian Regional Science Association

 

The Romanian Regional Science Association would like to thank you all for your participation in the RSAI Congress in Timisoara: it is the contribution of each of you that has made this meeting so successful.. MORE 


RSAI Information

 

Papers in Regional Science ISI also an ISI ranking in Economics

From 2011 PiRS has also an ISI ranking in Economics in addition to the listings in Geography and Environmental Studies that PiRS already had. 

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On the agenda! 

Please see the PDF below with regards to the information of the 5th Summer Conference in Regional Science of the German Speaking Section MORE   

  • 18th APDR Congress
    INNOVATION AND REGIONAL DYNAMICS
    June14-16 , Algarve Faro, Portugal

Further information HERE     

  • 25th ERSA Summer School

July 2-12, Umeå University, Sweden 

Deadline for the application is 1st April 2012 MORE    

  • 52nd ERSA Congress

REGIONS IN MOTION: Breaking the path!
August 21-25, Bratislava, Slovakia
Further information HERE

Please note registration will open on the 16th April   

  • XXXVIII Reuniones de estudios regionales

  November 22 – 23, Bilbao, Spain 

          Further Information HERE

 
   

 

ERSA Office Activities

 

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More details of RSAI Personal Membership click HERE 

 

To get extensive information on the benefits of membership, please feel free to contact RSAI rsai@leeds.ac.uk, or one of the 18 ERSA Sections  or the ERSA office email:info@ersa.org

 

 

Press Release

If any presenting Author(s) / Organisations attending the ERSA 2012 Congress want to do a Press Release, please contact the ERSA Office.
ERSA Members and Sections can make Press Releases on their specific activities as well, please inform the ERSA Office, at info@ersa.org 

 

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