ERSA Monthly E-news – June 2025

30/06/2025

ERSA Monthly news & updates

June Issue – 06/2025

In this issue you will find:

· ERSA2025 Congress

· Internal Communication

· Journals news

· Upcoming events

· Publication

We wish you a good reading

#ERSA2025

Stay tuned to the congress website, the ERSA2025 program will be release soon.

Journals News

Global Challenges and Regional Science (GCRS)

Check out the latest paper: Assessing the impact of high energy prices on tourism in the EU

Authors: Matthias Weitzel, Rafael Garaffa, Camille Van der Vorst 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

New Issue: Regional Science Policy & Practice | Volume 17, Issue 6, June 2025 more

Papers in Regional Science (PiRS)

Volume 104, Issue 4

Latest Article: Growth, working capital and refinancing: The geography of post-pandemic regional financial resilience in UK SMEs

Authors: Marc Cowling,Ross Brown, Weixi Liu, Huan Yang more

New Article in REGION Vol. 12 No. 1 (2025)

Identifying and analyzing logistics land use:

A case study of the Rhineland Metropolitan Region Authors: Andre Thiemermann and Florian Groß.

Investigaciones Regionales – Journal of Regional Research has published the 62^nd 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

Papers 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

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

Romanian Section

The Romanian Regional Science Association is pleased to announce the launching of their website

9^thCERS – Central European Conference in Regional Science – CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

Cluj-Napoca, Romania, on 27-29 November 2025.

Hosted by the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Faculty of Civil Engineering

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

See all upcoming events

Other News

André Torre was awarded with the J.A. Sporck 2025-2026 Chair in Geography

The University of Liège has awarded André Torre the J.A. Sporck Chair in Geography for the academic year 2025–2026, granted by the Sporck Foundation.

Publication

Culture Based Development – Modelling Cultural Bias in Economic Choice

Author: Annie Tubadji, Economics Department, Swansea University, UK

July 2025

More information from the publisher

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.

Read the full announcement here.

Journals News

Global Challenges and Regional Science (GCRS)

Check out the latest paper: Place-based policies – How to do them and why

Author: Jens Suedekum, Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE) and CEPR, Germany more

Regional Science Policy & Practice (RSPP)

Call for Papers | RSPP Special Issue: Remote Working as a Driver for Rural Transformation?

Guest Editors: Hans Westlund & Nino Javakhishvili-Larsen

Submissions deadline: 15 December 2025

Papers in Regional Science (PiRS)

Volume 104, Issue 3

Latest Article: Polycentricity and regional economic resilience: A ridge regression approach

Authors: Burcu Değerli Çifçi, Hasan Engin Duran, Izmir Institute of Technology, Hasan Engin Duran, Turkiye more

REGION

Just published in REGION: «Spatial Network Analysis» by Carmen Cabrera.

Get the article open access here.

Upcoming events

Turkish Section: 24th National Congress

15-17 May 2025 in Mersin, Türkiye

Italian Section: 6th AISRe Summer School

Artificial Intelligence, Globalisation and New Territorial Divides. Theories and applications

9 – 13 June 2025, Milan, Italy

Application is till open! more

XLVI AISRe Annual Scientific Conference

Territorial Inequalities: Prospects for Regions and Cities

10-12 September 2025, Pescara, Italy

Deadline for application to AISRe Award “Young Author Best Paper”: 19 May 2025

Italian Section: Post-Doctoral Scholarship “Roberto Camagni” – 2nd Edition

Value: up to 15,000 €.

Applications Deadline: 15 May 2025. more

32nd APDR Congress

Sustainable Transformation and Spatial Interaction of People and Places: Urban and Rural Landscapes for mobility, migration and tourism

8-11 July 2025, Porto, Portugal

Abstract submissions: 30 April 2025

Academy applications: 15 May 2025 more

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, Spain.

Plenary Lectures – Mark Your Calendar!

We’re excited to announce the distinguished plenary speakers for 16–17 October 2025:

Prof. Katarzyna Kopczewska, University of Warsaw & Prof. Riccardo Crescenzi, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

Call for Special Sessions deadline: 16 May 2025

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.

Summer Institute 2025

Resilience X-Factor of a City

16-20 June 2025, Košice, Slovakia

See all upcoming events

Vacancies

PhD Researcher position at University of Vienna. Application deadline: 30 April 2025
9 Fully funded PhD Scholarships, University of Trento. Application Deadline: 21 May 2025 – 4 p.m. (Italian time)

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!

If you’d like to have your publication featured, please send the details to office@ersa.org.

Do you have another announcement that might interest our community?

Send us an email. We’ll be happy to promote it through our channels.

Novedades

ERSA Monthly E-news – June 2025

In this issue you will find:

#ERSA2025

Papers in Regional Science (PiRS)

Papers in Romanian Journal of Regional Science

Papers in Regional Science (PiRS)

REGION