International Conference on

Small Societies-Small Business-Small Cities & Villages,

25-26 August 2014, Sardinia, Akarnania, Greece

Call for Papers and Participation 

The Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER) is organizing an International Conference on Small Societies-Small Business-Small Cities & Villages in the Greek village of Sardinia, Akarnania, Greece on the 25-26 August 2014. The conference is organized in collaboration with the Institute of Local Development-TAP based in the village of Sardinia. The village is located in central-western Greece very close to LefkadaIsland and the international airport of Preveza-Action National Airport (Airport Code: PVK). There are many flights from main European cities, usually Saturday and Sunday (click here for details). The distance from Preveza-Aktion Airport to the village is 50 kilometres, about 45 minutes by taxi. Alternatively, you can come from Athens (about 4 hours drive). Free bus transportation will be provided to all participants from Athens on specific dates and times of departure and return.

The purpose of the conference is to bring together a small number of international academics and researchers from a cross disciplinary perspective such as Local, Regional, Rural and Community Studies, Political Science, Public Administration and Policy Analysis, Sociology, Geography, Health, Tourism, Fitness, Sports and Educational Studies, Literature, Economics and Business (Small and Family Enterprises), Marketing Small Cities, Local and Regional Development, Architecture and Planning, and Natural Resources, Comparative Studies between Small and Large Cities, Small Towns in Literature and Movies, Public Health etc.  The conference website is:http://www.atiner.gr/small.htm.

The cost of participating is 300 Euro, which includes up to 4 nights of accommodation in a local hotel with breakfast (free stay for one accompanying person in the same room with breakfast), two lunches, an educational and cultural Greek night of traditional music entertainment with dinner, a tour of the area which includes the island of Lefkada with dinner (Tuesday afternoon). Accompanying persons pay no fee but they pay the cost of the activities they want to participate.

Please submit a 300-word abstract before 15 January 2014, by email, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., to Dr. Gregory T. Papanikos, President, ATINER & Honorary Professor, University of Stirling, U.K.  Please include: Title of Paper, Full Name (s), Current Position, Institutional Affiliation, an email address and at least 3 keywords that best describe the subject of your submission. Decisions will be reached within four weeks of your submission. Please use the abstract submitting form available at http://www.atiner.gr/2014/FORM-SMC.doc. If your submission is accepted, you will receive information on registration deadlines and paper submission requirements. Should you wish to participate in the Conference without presenting a paper, for example, to chair a session, to evaluate papers which are to be included in the conference proceedings or books, to contribute to the editing of a book, or any other contribution, please send an email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. 

The Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER) was established in 1995 as an independent academic association with the mission to become a forum, where academics and researchers - from all over the world - could meet in Athens to exchange ideas on their research and to discuss future developments in their disciplines. Since 1995, ATINER has organized more than 200 international conferences, symposiums and events. It has also published approximately 150 books. Academically, the Institute consists of six Research Divisions and twenty-seven Research Units. Each Research Unit organizes an annual conference and undertakes various small and large research projects. Academics and researchers are more than welcome to become members and contribute to ATINER's objectives. The members of the Institute can undertake a number of academic activities. If you want to become a member, please download the form (membership form). For more information or suggestions, please send an email to: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..                           

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Call for Papers and Special Session Proposals

It is our pleasure to announce the 20th APDR Congress, to be held at the University of Évora, Portugal, from July 10 to July 11, 2014. 

Theme of the Conference:

Renaissance of the Regions of Southern Europe

The 20th APDR Congress has the main theme of Renaissance of the Regions of Southern Europe. In the recent years, the southern Europe countries experienced, particularly aggravated, the economic crisis that affected much of the western world. This crisis has thus helped to exacerbate the existing inequalities between the North and South of Europe. After several decades away from levels of development and economic growth recorded elsewhere and the considerable efforts in terms of regional development policies, the southern regions of Europe need to find your way. Thus, this Congress will seek to answer the following questions: What conditions are necessary for the economic revival of southern Europe? What is wrong in regional development policies pursued so far? How can countries of southern Europe to improve their levels of development? The boundary between Europe and the Mediterranean is a threat or an opportunity? How can Southern Europe take advantage of the connection to the South Atlantic?

The 2014 APDR Congress will work through plenary sessions, conferences and round tables, workshops and parallel sessions.  Parallel sessions will include: i) abstracts submitted to Regular Sessions (RS), proposed by the organization; and ii) abstracts submitted to Special Sessions (SS), proposed by participants and discussion topics included in workshops proposed by the participants.

The call for papers and Special Session Proposals is open and your participation is very welcome!

Themes of specific interest are:

· Renaissance of the Regions of the Southern Europe

· Urban and Regional Economics

· Regional and Local Development Policies

· Financing of Economic Growth

· Spatial Dimensions of the Crisis of the State

· Regional and Local Public Finance

· Sectoral Policies and Regional Dynamics

· Infrastructure and Regional Development

· Labour Markets and Development

· Tourism and Sustainable Development

· Education, Innovation and Territory

· Rural Development and Agrarian Economy

· Modelling in Regional Economy

· Spatial Econometrics

· Regional and Urban Planning

· Economics of Environmental and Natural Resources 

Deadline for Abstracts submissions: March 20^th, 2014. Abstracts should be submitted electronically, using the platform available on the Conference website: https://events.digitalpapers.org/apdr2014/

Deadline for Special Session proposals should be sent by February 10th, 2014 to the secretariat of the Congress at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. 

All information at the congress website: http://www.apdr.pt/congresso/2014/

Looking forward to meeting you in Évora!

Maria Conceição Rego

Chair of the Local Organizing Committee

20th APDR Congress

January 8, 2014

Geographical Analysis Editorship

I am pleased to inform the community that Serge Rey has accepted the position of Editor of Geographical Analysis, effective July 1, 2014. Serge is Professor at the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, Arizona State University. His editorship is also supported by the GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis and Computation. Serge brings a wealth of experience in editorial endeavors, and the Executive Board enthusiastically endorses his selection. His first issue will come out in January 2015.

The journal, under the capable leadership of Dan Griffith, is in great shape and is set to embark on a number of exciting developments to coincide with the editorial transition. Dan will continue to manage papers through the end of June, and starting July 1 the journal will move to an on-line manuscript submission system, with a technology platform from Wiley; more on this in due course.

Also, as of 2015, the journal will adapt to the ever-changing world of academic journals, by going to an on-line format. This is in keeping with major trends in the industry, and will make it easier for Libraries to manage and distribute the journal’s contents.

We have also arranged, with Wiley, to provide subscriptions to members of RSAI and a reciprocal courtesy will be extended to our readers. GA individual subscribers will be granted free digital access to PiRS and RSPP, while RSAI members will enjoy the benefit of digital access to GA.

Again, I want to thank Dan Griffith and Yongwan Chun, at UT Dallas, and all the current Associate Editors and Editorial Board members for their continued loyalty and support to the journal.  The Department of Geography at Ohio State is proud of its association with Geographical Analysis, and looks forward to publishing great papers in the coming years.

Please join me in welcoming Serge to the Editorship.

Morton O’Kelly

Chair, GA Exec Committee

Dear Member of the Spatial Econometrics Association,

first of all let me wish you all a very happy new year 2014.

The beginning of the year is the right occasion to give you some updates of the ongoing activity of the Association and of the programs for the year 2014. As you all know two are the main activities of the Association namely the Yearly conference and the summer school.

1) The VIII Annual World Conference of the SEA this year will be held in Zurich from Wednesday 11^th june (reception) to june 13^th. The link at http://www.spatialeconometricsassociation.org/2014/ will be soon populated with all the relevant information. The conference is organized by  Prof. Peter Egger at the ETH Zurich (http://www.kof.ethz.ch/).

2) The 7th Edition of the Spatial Econometrics Advanced Institute (SEAI14) will be held in Rome, at the Catholic University of the Sacred Hearth. ( http://roma.unicatt.it/home?rdeLocaleAttr=en). The instructors of this year's edition are: Giuseppe Arbia (week 1), Anil Bera (week 2), Ingmar Prucha (week 3), Badi Baltagi (week 4). The computer lab sessions on the software language R will be lead by Gianfranco Piras, Diego Giuliani and Giovanni Millo.

Here below please find some important deadlines and timetable:

February 20th, 2014 - Deadline for formal applications

March 10th, 2014 - Notification of acceptance

April 15th, 2014 - Deadline for the first half of the payment

May  10th 2014 - Deadline for final payments

May 12th- June 6th, 2014 - Courses

The application form can be downloaded at the web page: http://www.spatialeconometricsassociation.org/advanced/program_2014.html

Send the applications forms to : This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

I rely on  your help to diffuse these information in your network. Looking forward to see you all in some of the future activities.

Best regards,

Giuseppe Arbia

Chairman of the Spatial Econometrics Association

Regards,

Yangki Imade Suara
PRSCO 2013 Secretariat
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Our photographers took a lot of pictures during PRSCO 2013 (around 30 GB in total). We have uploaded all pictures to IRSA's Flickr account. Please kindly visit http://www.flickr.com/photos/irsa-indonesia/sets/ to download your pictures during PRSCO 2013.

If you have uploaded your pictures to Flickr, please kindly use tag #prsco2013 and #irsa2013 so we can link it with our photo album.

Regards,

Yangki Imade Suara

LOC PRSCO 2013

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The 23rd PRSCO and the 4th IRSA Institute http://www.prsco2013.org/ | https://www.conftool.com/prsco2013/

No dia 14 de Janeiro de 2014, terá lugar na Universidade de Aveiro, Sala de Atos da Reitoria, entre as 9:00 e as 18:30, o seminário internacional “Governance, Science and Innovation in Development Policies”, organizado no âmbito do projeto “Alianças Territoriais para a Inovação”.

O seminário será estruturado em torno de dois temas principais: “Leadership for Governance: Much Ado about Nothing?”, a ser debatido durante a manhã, e “Science, Development Policy and the Stubborn Reality!”, que constituirá o motivo de debate durante a tarde. A estimular e apoiar os debates estarão os oradores Gerry Stoker, Colin Copus, Giovanni Allegretti e Luís de Sousa no primeiro tema, e Bjørn Asheim, Louise Kempton, John Edwards, e Paulo Pinho no segundo. Poderá consultar mais informações sobre o evento no programa que enviamos em anexo.

O seminário, de inscrição gratuita, terá um número limitado de participantes. Teríamos muito gosto em poder contar com a sua presença. Ficaríamos gratos se confirmasse a sua participação para um dos seguintes e-mails: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ou This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Para qualquer informação adicional, não hesite em contactar.

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Saudações cordiais,

A Coordenação da Equipa do Projeto “Alianças Territoriais para a Inovação”

Artur de Rosa Pires

Filipe Teles

Flyer in English (PDF)

Speakers (PDF)

'Call for Papers' for the 2014 IIOA Conference in Lisbon, Portugal (15-18th July 2014). (See the Call document attached!)

Our Conference Paper Submission System (COPASS) is open to receive your abstracts (and full papers). Goto: https://copass.iioa.org, login, and click the link "22nd IIOA Conference in Lisbon".

We are looking forward to your participation!

Check out latest news, important dates, accommodation hints, and how to contact us on the conference web-page: http://www.iioa.org/conferences/22nd/

2014 International Conference on E-commerce and Contemporary Economic Development [ECED2014] aims to bring together researchers, engineers and students from around the world in both fields about E-commerce and Contemporary Economic Devel opment for information sharing and cooperation. Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit their contributions to ECED2014.

Thesis topics

1. a) Business And Social Applications;
2. b) Communication And Network Security;
3. c) E- Business And Extended Issues In E -Business;
4. d) Innovation Management and International Finance.

Note: Not limited to the above issues. The authors according to the above issues can personally giving their comments and opinions

The paper language: English    

Index： EI and ISTP

Paper format

1. a) All submissions must be original, unpublished, and not submitted concurrently for publication elsewhere.
2. b) Each paper should be at 3 pages
3. c) Finally leave our E-mail convenient we contact you.

Paper submission Due: March 08, 2014

Conference Date: June 7-8,2014 

Conference Location: Hong Kong, China

The official website: http://www.eced2014.com

Submission Via Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

ECED2014 ORGANIZER COMMITTEE

Dear colleagues!

The Department for Social and Economic Geography and Regional Studies, the Faculty of Geology and Geography, V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University (Ukraine) invites you to take part on 3-4 April, 2014 at the scientific and practical conference for students, post-graduate students and young researches «Region-2014: human-geographical aspects» and to publish your articles in the scientific journal «Journal of human geography». The call for papers is placed in the attached file.

http://hgj.univer.kharkov.ua/index.php/en/ – the link to the web-site of our journal. The journal is included in the list of Ukraine’s scientific professional publications (according to the Certified Staff Evaluation Department of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine), which results of theses for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (geographical sciences) may be published.

In 2013 the monograph “Spatial Analysis in Human Geography: New Approaches, Methods, Models. Monograph / K.A. Nemets. – Kharkiv: KhNU, 2013. – 225 p.” by K.A. Nemets, L.M. Nemets was published. («Просторовий аналіз у суспільній географії: нові підходи, методи, моделі»)

In the attached file the content and the summary of the monograph are placed.

Also I suggest to look through the research interests of the Department for Social and Economic Geography and Regional Studies. The department deals with such issues: evaluation of natural resource, tourist resource potential and environmental management, demographic studies, investigations of the employment potential, analysis of the social infrastructure, social development, social safety of territories, studies of business environment, small and average entrepreneurship, studies of foreign economic connections of border and cross-border territories, territorial organization of the agricultural complex, training of specialties (masters) in recreation and excursion activity. Methodic of the study of the territorial planning, and monitoring model of the city's social and economic development have been worked out by the researchers of the department. If some of these fields of research are intersected with yours we would be glad to collaborate.

If you have any questions, please, write to my e-mail (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) or listed below:

This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (the e-mail for questions on articles in «Journal of HUMAN geography»)

This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.(E-mail for submission papers at the conference «Region-2013: Human- geographical Aspects»

The e-mail of the Department for Social and Economic Geography and Regional Studies, the Faculty of Geology and Geography, V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University (Ukraine):

This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

The web-site of the department:

http://soc-econom-region.univer.kharkov.ua/index.php?lang=en

We are waiting for your publications and look forward to working!

Sincerely, Pavel Kobylin.