ERSA2017 was a success! Plenty of opportunities to meet before ERSA2018

21/09/2017

21 September 2017 Issue n° 8

With 700 presentations and 800 participants from 48 countries, the 57th Congress was a great success!

Epainos Award 2017

This year’s Epainos prize for the most innovative and qualitative «Young Scientist» paper was granted to Daniel Oto-Peralías, University of St Andrews. His paper ‘Medieval Frontier Origins of a Country’s Economic Geography: The Case of Spain‘ provides enlightening insights into settlement patterns and spatial discontinuity.

«The Epainos session was the best-attended presentation I ever had in which I received very helpful comments. It is highly recommended.»

Daniel Oto-Peralías

Upcoming Congresses

You can already book the time in your agenda for the next ERSA Congress in Cork, Ireland which will be held from August 28 to August 31, 2018. Follow the event @ersacork2018!

We are happy to announce that it has been decided that the 59th ERSA Congress in 2019 will be held in Lyon France and that the 60th ERSA Congress in 2020 will be held in Bolzano, Italy.

Bulgarian Section

We are glad to welcome a new section to our constantly growing network : the ERSA Council agreed to recognise the Bulgarian Regional Science Association (BARI) as a new section in ERSA and RSAI.

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REGIO – ERSA Next Lecture

We are pleased to announce our next REGIO – ERSA Academic Lecture which will be held on October 6 in Brussels.

Topic: ‘Regional diversification and relatedness, including the empirical evidence and possible policy implications (especially for smart specialization policy)’

Keynote Speaker: Prof. Ron Boschma, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

Discussant: Prof. Raquel Ortega Argiles, Birmingham Business School, United Kingdom

Date & Venue: 6 October 2017, DG REGIO, Brussels

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Ongoing Calls

Call for application

1st ERSA Winter School 2018 – Structural change, innovation, competitiveness and regional development in a Service Economy

22 – 26 January 2018

The 1st ERSA Winter School 2018 aims to provide PhD Students and young researchers with the very latest advances in regional sciences on the topics of innovation and structural changes. Both theoretical, empirical and policy analysis works are welcome.

The Winter School seeks to encourage close interactions and feedbacks between participants and top senior researchers as well as internationally recognized analysts on the field of innovation and spatial development.

This is a unique opportunity for Ph.D. students and young researchers to present their research, benefit from outstanding lectures and get feedback from prominent scholars.

Application deadline: 30 October 2017

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Call for papers

ERSA Hungarian Section – International Conference on University-Based Entrepreneurship and Regional Development: Theory, Empirics and Practical Implementation (ICUBERD)

30 November – 1 December 2017

The conference aims to address two important domains: how to drive and manage a process of institutional transformation towards a more entrepreneurial model, and how university-based ecosystems can be nurtured in cultural, economic and socio-political environments that may not be naturally conducive to entrepreneurship and innovation.

Abstract submission deadline: 31 October 2017

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Upcoming ERSA Events

REGIO-ERSA Academic Lecture

Regional diversification and relatedness, including the empirical evidence and possible policy implications

6 October 2017, Brussels, Belgium

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EWRC 2017 with ERSA

9 – 12 October 2017, Brussels, Belgium

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Baltic Section – 6th International Scientific-Practical Conference

Good Governance at local self-government : towards efficiency and welfare society