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The Founder's Medal was established to recognize lifetime contributions to the field of Regional Science and to the Association. It is still the only honour conveyed by the Association as a whole. Previous recipients include Walter Isard, Martin J. Beckmann, William Alonso, Jean H. P. Paelinck, David E. Boyce, Peter Nijkamp, Antoine Bailly and Arthur Getis.

Individuals are invited to submit nominations/self-nominations for the RSAI Founder’s Medal. The nominations should be sent to the RSAI Selection Committee (e.tranos@bham.ac.uk), which consists of Andrés Rodríguez-Pose, Antoine Baily, Arthur Getis, Jean-Claude Thill and Emmanouil Tranos. The Committee will select three (3) nominees recommended as potential recipients of the Founder’s Medal based on the below criteria. Then, past recipients of the Founder’s Medal will be invited to recommend the recipient from the list of three nominees compiled by the Committee. The announcement of the recipient will take place during the next World RSAI Congress in Istanbul (25-28th April, 2016).

A written nomination/self-nomination of a candidate for consideration for the RSAI Founder’s Medal should articulate the merit of the nominee for receiving the Founder’s Medal. It must include a detailed statement of the nature of the lifetime contribution a candidate has made to RSAI. The nomination/self-nomination must explain how and why that contribution of the nominee meets the criteria of the RSAI Founder’s Medal outlined below:

The recipient should be a senior scholar who has contributed in an important way to the field of Regional Science in a scholarly sense;

The recipient should have been active in the RSAI for a sustained period, but not necessarily active at the time of the award; also, the award is not given posthumously;

The recipient should be a person with whom many members can identify; his/her contributions could be a major work in one area or many works in several areas;

The contribution need not be limited to one type of contribution; it might be theory, method or policy, for example;

It is recognized that the native country and language of scholars affect the extent to which they are known by the membership, and an effort should be made to take this into account.

More information about the Founder’s Medal can be found on the RSAI web page.

Call for Special Session Proposals

Special sessions on cutting-edge and frontier topics in Regional Science and Regional Science Policy are welcomed by the organisers. Please contact (2016worldcongress@regionalscience.org) and Tüzin Baycan, Chair of the Local Organizing Committee (tbaycan@itu.edu.tr) for proposals of special sessions.

Discussants are required for each presentation in special sessions.

Special Session Proposal Format

Proposals for special sessions should include:

The special session title

The name(s) of the organizer(s), with affiliation(s) and email(s) (identifying the chair)

The aim and scope of the special session (500 words)

Deadline

Special session proposals should be sent by November 1st, 2015 to the secretariat of the Congress at 2016worldcongress@regionalscience.org and to the Chair of the Local Organizing Committee tbaycan@itu.edu.tr.

Abstracts Submission Process (see also the example of the call for paper)

Authors submit abstracts for special sessions through session Organizers.

The organizers of the special session should ask for:

• title;
• authors(s);
• affiliations and emails (indicate the presenter and corresponding author);
• three keywords;
• abstract (400-500 words).

Abstract submission deadline: November 29th, 2015

Notification of acceptance of abstract: December 20th, 2015

After the abstract submission deadline the organizer(s) should send all the submissions to secretariat of the Congress at 2016worldcongress@regionalscience.org and to the Chair of the Local Organizing Committee tbaycan@itu.edu.tr.

The secretariat will insert the data in the CONFERENCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM and give full access to the organizer for the management of the abstracts.

Details about the Conference: http://2016worldcongress.regionalscience.org/

Call for Papers

The Regional Science Association International (RSAI) and the Turkish Regional Science Association (Bölge Bilimi Türk Milli Komitesi – BBTMK) invite regional scientists, economists, economic geographers, urban planners, policy makers, and researchers of related disciplines to participate in the 11th World Congress of the Regional Science Association International. The Congress will be hosted by the Turkish Regional Science Association.

The Congress will feature several world-renowned keynote speakers on cutting-edge urban and regional science and policy issues, expert panels, research presentations and posters. It will be attended by 500 delegates from the worldwide community of regional scientists.

The conference will be open to different research topics within the broader contours of the regional science, urban and regional studies, geographical sciences and planning, and development. Anticipated sub-themes of the congress include the following:

We invite formal paper presentations as well as posters (deadline of November 29th, 2015). Organizers of special session are also welcome. The abstract submission portal is now open. Full information on the venue, abstract submission, registration, schedule of events, accommodation and travel information is posted at www.2016worldcongress.regionalscience.org.

Feel free to contact the secretariat of the Congress at 2016worldcongress@regionalscience.org and to the Chair of the Local Organizing Committee tbaycan@itu.edu.tr for further information.

We look forward to welcoming you in the dazzling city of Istanbul in April 2016.

With warmest regards,

Tüzin Baycan

Chair of the Local Organizing Committee

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