28 October 2016 Issue n° 9

The ERSA2017 Congress Website is LIVE

http://groningen.ersa.org

Visit it on a regular basis to stay updated.

Call for Special Session Proposals is OPEN

The Local Organising Committee is happy to invite you to submit your proposals for the 57th ERSA Congress.

The deadline for proposals is 2 December 2016.

Don't miss this chance to contribute to the biggest event in Regional Science! Be part of it!

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Call for Abstracts/Papers Start: 16 December 2016

Road to ERSA2017

The Road to ERSA2017 consists of four public lectures by prominent regional scientists as a precursor to the ERSA 2017  Congress in Groningen. The lectures cover the broad field of regional sciences with implications for Dutch (Northern) regions and cities.

The 2nd Lecture on "Government and Innovation" will be held on November 10 in Groningen.

Prof Koen Frenken, Prof Dries Faems and Mayor Den Oudsten will speak about the sharing economy and the innovation strengths of the Northern Dutch SME's. more

Follow the road to ERSA2017 on  Twitter  and Facebook

Other ERSA Events …

How can Regional Policy Benefit from Big Data?

International Workshop co-organised by ERSA, CORE-UCL and DG REGIO 

22 November 2016, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

The workshop will gather a unique platform of scholars with an expertise in the field: 

Paul Longley, Isabelle Thomas, Lewis Dijkstra, Catherine Linard, Filipe Batista e Silva, Hugo Poelman, Nicolas Ibañez and Panayotis Christidis. 
 

Programme and registration: more

30th ERSA Summer School

GIS and Regional Science: Theory and Applications

9-15 July 2017, University of the Aegean, Lesvos island, Greece

Call for Applications Start: 7 December 2016   Preliminary Information

ERSA Sections Events …   

Spanish Section – International Conference 

30 years of integration in Europe from the regional perspective: past lessons and future challenges
16-18 November 2016, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Languages of the Conference: Spanish,Portuguese and English more

German Speaking Section – Annual Winter Seminar 

18-24 February 2017, Spital am Pyhrn (Austria)

Call for abstracts deadline: 9 December 2016 more

French Speaking Section – The 54th Colloquium of ASRDLF
jointly organised with the Greek Section of ERSA

Cities and regions in a changing Europe: challenges and prospects

5-7 July 2017, Athens (Greece)  preliminary Information

For more events outside Europe, visit RSAI website

Other Events …

International Conference supported by the ERSA Romanian Section
Knowledge Economy – Challenges of the 21st Century

17-18 November 2016, "Constantin Brancoveanu" University of Pitesti (Romania)  more

ICUBERD Conference 2016 
University-Based Entrepreneurship and Regional Development:
Theory, Empirics And Practical Implementation 

1-2 December 2016, Pécs, Hungary more

Remembering Vienna …

The Local Organising Committee is happy to share with you the Congress Video as well as Edward Glaeser's Keynote Presentation Video, both recently posted online. Over 700 presentations were held, covering the whole range of topics in the field of Regional Science, and there were lots of networking opportunities.

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