Dear NECTAR colleagues,

Please find enclosed a call for papers to the workshop organized by NECTAR Cluster 5 (Leisure, Recreation and Tourism) which will be held at the University of Salento, Italy on May 24-25, 2018.

Abstracts should be sent to  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., before January 31, 2018.

Best regards,

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Ana Condeço-Melhorado

NECTAR Secretary

The Indiana Business Research Center seeks applications for a one-year post-doc position, with good chances of renewal subject to funding and satisfactory performance. The post-doc will be responsible for conducting economic and statistical analyses on a wide range of regional economic development topics, as determined by the Center’s emerging needs and priorities. There is a strong expectation that this research will contribute both to the disciplines associated with regional science as well as to the regional economic development project currently funded by the Economic Development Administration at the Department of Commerce.

A part of the research portfolio will include assessing the impacts of different economic policies over time and space. The researcher is expected to help advance Regional Economic Development (RED) as an emerging field of research and discipline in its own right and gain a greater understanding about how regions grow, adapt to shocks and how agents within a regional system respond to information and incentives. The empirical research portfolio will include several regional science disciplines, including entrepreneurship, economic resilience, inclusive growth, access to financial capital together with the determinants of poverty including the roles of automation and global competition, and the interdependence of rural and urban areas.

Qualifications: A PhD is required, ideally in economics, regional science or a related discipline. The candidate will have extensive training in state-of-the-art economics or a related field and econometric analysis, including spatial statistics, as well as excellent communications and writing skills. In addition, he or she will have extensive experience with a variety of statistical packages. The candidate needs to be able to both work well independently and also to function effectively in a team setting.

The Kelley School of Business, one of the nation’s premier business schools, is based on Indiana University campuses in Bloomington and Indianapolis. Founded in 1925, the Indiana Business Research Center is the state’s leading provider of economic and demographic data and analysis. The center has won numerous awards for its informative publications and websites. More information about the IBRC may be found at www.ibrc.indiana.edu.

Interested candidates should review the application requirements and submit their application at http://indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/4887. Candidates should direct any questions to Roxanne Marotz, Indiana Business Research Center, 1309 East Tenth Street, Bloomington, IN 47405 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Applications received before December 6, 2017 will be given full consideration; however, applications will be accepted until the position is filled.

Indiana University is an equal employment and affirmative action employer and a provider of ADA services. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ethnicity, color, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, disability status or protected veteran status.

The Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering (CSEE) at the University at Buffalo (UB), State University of New York, invites applications from outstanding candidates for two tenure-track faculty positions in transportation systems engineering starting in August 2018. Priority is for candidates at the assistant professor level, although highly qualified individuals will be considered at the associate or full professor level. We are particularly looking for candidates who can operate effectively in a diverse community of students and faculty and share our vision of helping all constituents reach their full potential. These positions will expand and strengthen the current faculty capabilities and capitalize on a recent endowment for the Stephen Still Institute for Sustainable Transportation and Logistics (ISTL), a joint initiative between UB’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and School of Management (http://www.buffalo.edu/istl). The new hires will support departmental growth in transportation systems engineering, and will be an integral part of the ISTL team. The ideal candidates will have a solid skill set in mathematical modeling with a systems perspective, and a philosophical orientation that leverages large datasets targeting the interface of mobility, safety, sustainability, and resilience in multimodal transportation systems. Specific areas of interest include, but are not limited to: transportation/infrastructure systems management and public-private partnerships; travel behavior modeling; transportation safety; traffic flow theory and traffic modeling; multimodal transportation; transit design, operation and management; intelligent transportation systems; next generation connected and automated transportation systems; transportation large datasets informatics; and statistical/econometric modeling or optimization applications in transportation. Candidates who can integrate their research with other engineering disciplines such as construction, reliability, risk, and energy, are of particular interest. Successful candidates are expected to establish and maintain an internationally recognized research program, to contribute to teaching of undergraduate and graduate courses, and to provide service to the University and the profession. They are also anticipated to seek collaborative opportunities with MCEER (www.buffalo.edu/mceer.html), the Institute for Bridge Engineering, the UB Center for Computational Research (www.ccr.buffalo.edu), New York State Center for Engineering Design and Industrial Innovation, and other campus-wide initiatives. Applications must be submitted through the UB Jobs system at www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu, referencing posting number F1700170, and should include the following: cover letter, statement of research interests, statement of teaching interests, diversity statement, curriculum vitae, and contact information for at least three references. Questions may be directed to Dr. Panagiotis Ch. Anastasopoulos, chair of the search committee, at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., or (716) 645-4362. Review of applications will commence November 15, and will continue until the positions are filled.

Pursuant to Executive Order 161, no State entity, as defined by the Executive Order, is permitted to ask, or mandate, in any form, that an applicant for employment provide his or her current compensation, or any prior compensation history, until such time as the applicant is extended a conditional offer of employment with compensation. If such information has been requested from you before such time, please contact the Governor’s Office of Employee Relations at (518) 474-6988 or via email at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. The University at Buffalo is an equal opportunity / affirmative action / employer / recruiter.

Dear colleagues,

We invite you to submit abstract to the 21^st Uddevalla Symposium 2018 that will take place in Luleå Sweden 14-16 June 2018  and be hosted by Luleå University of Technology.Few universities in the world are so exotic and situated so far north out near the polar circle with midnight sun and with very bright nights.

The overall theme is: Diversity, Innovation, Entrepreneurship –  Regional, Urban, National and International Perspectives.

Deadline for abstract submitting is January 28, 2018.  Please see attached Call for Paper!

On behalf of the Organizing Committee

Iréne Bernhard, PhD

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Iréne Bernhard, PhD, Assistant Professor & Deputy Head of Department

School of Business, Economics & IT
University West
SE-461 86 Trollhättan, Sweden

+46 (0)520 223678

+46 (0) 733 975102

www.hv.se
www.symposium.hv.se

Dear Colleagues,

Thank you very much for your great interest on the 2018 RSAI World Congress Goa, India.

We have received more than 400 abstracts coming from all Continents and distributed throughout all the special sessions and topics proposed for the congress. You are making our congress a real regional science World Congress! Thank you very much!

We have also received many requests for the extension of the deadline. In the light of these requests and ongoing demand, we are very glad to inform you that the deadline for abstract submission is extended until 21 January 2018.

You can follow updated information at the congress website: www.regionalscience.org/2018worldcongress or contact us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

As we are approaching the end of 2017 and embracing the coming 2018, we would like on behalf of RSAI World Congress Organizing Committee, to wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

With warmest regards,

The Organizing Committee

www.regionalscience.org/2018worldcongress

Dear Colleagues,

I am pleased to attach the call for abstracts of the 11th International Conference of the Hellenic Geographical Society  (ICHGS - 2018) which will take place in the historic and beautiful city of Lavrion, Greece from April 12 - 15, 2018 and will be hosted by the Lavrion Technological and Cultural Park (LTCP) and the National Technical University of Athens.   

Best regards,

Yorgos N. Photis

President, Hellenic Geographical Society

Professor, National Technical University of Athens

Department of Geography and Regional Planning

Zografou Campus, Athens 15780

Greece

Dear colleagues

We would like to invite you to submit a paper, and/or to disseminate this call to potential authors, in order to allow us to set up a special issue on “Innovation Processes in Rural Areas”.

This special issue will be published in the journal Regional Science: Policy & Practice (published by Willey and Scopus indexed) as proposed by the call

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1757-7802/homepage/call_for_papers__innovation_processes_in_rural_areas.htm

Thanks and best wishes,

Lívia Madureira

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Livia Madureira - PhD Land and Environmental Economics

University of Tras-os-Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD)|Department Economics, Sociology and Management  (DESG)

Centre for Transdisciplinary Development Studies (CETRAD)

Polo II da ECHS, Quinta de Prados, 5000-801 Vila Real, Portugal

Mobilephone: +351 933456489; Phone (Office) +351 259350300; Phone (home) +351 259347269

E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.| Skype: livia.madureira