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From 18 to 19 December

Istanbul Technical University in Istanbul

National Regional Science / Regional Planning Congress "Emerging Economies and Regional Policy: Turkey agenda. Further information at http://bbtmk.itu.edu.tr/ıcerik.a...

The European Regional Science Association & the European Real Estate Society are offering the opportunity to participate in the 28th ERSA & ERES Summer School that will be held from 5th July to 15th July, 2015 in Vienna, Austria.

Click HERE for further information

Call for Papers:

45th Winter Seminar of the Regional Science Association on the 22nd - 28th February 2015 at Igls / Innsbruck

Abstract submission deadline 12/12/2014

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The Graduate School in Population Dynamics and Public Policy announces posts for PhD students

Background

The Graduate School in Population Dynamics and Public Policy is a graduate program for PhD students with dissertation projects focusing on population dynamics and/or public policy related to population changes and ageing. The school is part of the interdisciplinary research programme Ageing and Living Conditions (ALC) which has been judged one of the strongest Swedish research environments by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet). The school is funded by the Swedish Research Council until June 2016 and focus on PhD students active within economics, ethnology, social and economic geography, epidemiology and public health sciences, psychology, statistics, history, history of ideas, or historical demography. Our aims are to provide PhD students with the best possible conditions in which to profit from high quality education and to enable internationally competitive research. The school actively promotes multinational interaction by encouraging our students to participate in international conferences, workshops and PhD courses at other universities. The school stimulates and substantially improves the opportunities for students to build their own networks at an early stage in their careers.

More information about the aim and focus of the school and ALC can be found at our website http://www.ddb.umu.se/cbs/alc/ and

http://www.ddb.umu.se/cbs/forskarskolan-i-befolkningsdynamik-och-offentlig-politik/.

Who is qualified to apply?

Qualified for applying to the school are already accepted PhD students in either of the above mentioned, or related, subjects. The school does not fund any positions. Applicants must already have financing of doctoral studies secured by their home department. Welcomed to apply are recently accepted PhD students as well as students closer to graduation. The applicant’s research must be within the field of knowledge represented by the school which means that the applicant’s thesis should address social, economic, cultural, ethnical, gendered or medical processes related to such demographic structures as e.g. the labor market, aging, migration, family formation, fertility and health and related public policy. It includes studies in advanced data analysis with applications to various aspects of demographic structure and policy. PhD students with an interest in analysis based on register data are a priority.

What does the school offer me as a PhD student?

Students within the school are offered

• access to outstanding Swedish register data (the Linnaeus database)
• financial support for spending one semester or one academic year at another university
• financial support for conferences, to attend relevant courses and work-shops,
• financial support for temporary and informal visit’s to other universities,
• participation in an interdisciplinary and internationally oriented research environment
• to participate and follow an introduction course on different research topics within the ALC environment
• to attend the schools and ALC seminars
• PhD students at Umeå University are with financial support from the school obligated to spend one semester or one academic year at another university. (Where and when will be decided on by the student’s supervisor and the schools director.)
• PhD students not at Umeå University are with financial support from the school obligated to spend one semester or a whole academic year at the ALC environment at Umeå University

What are my duties as a PhD student?

Assessment criteria’s

PhD students with an interest in analysis of register data are a priority.

The application must include the following:

1. A brief description of the applicant’s research project as well as a CV, in which finished papers, articles and chapters are listed, and completed courses within the doctoral program are clearly stated. The CV must be attested by supervisor or head of the doctoral program at the home department.

2. A financial plan stating how studies up to the dissertation and PhD exam will be financed, e.g. by documenting a fully funded position as graduate student “Doktorandtjänst” or research assistant at a university.

3. A certificate, written by either the head of the department or the head of the department’s doctoral program, verifying both that the applicant is registered as a PhD-student at the department and that the department approves of the student applying to the school (electronic signature is sufficient). Neither party is obliged to any commitments by this procedure. A preliminary admission to the school will be followed by a formal agreement between the school and the student’s home department.

Electronic application, in word or pdf, should be sent to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (state application graduate school as subject) no later than 2015-01-15. Applications can also be sent to Johan Lundberg, Department of Economics, Umeå University, 901 87 Umeå to arrive 2015-01-15 at the latest. For further information, please contact the director Johan Lundberg, phone +46 (0)90-786 9540 or e-mail This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

We look forward to receiving your application!

Dear Colleagues & Friends,

Call for Abstract submission!

2015 Uddevalla Symposium on: “Regional development in an international context - Regional, national, cross border and international factors for growth and development”
June 11-13, 2015,
Sönderborg, Denmark.
www.symposium.hv.se

We invite you to submit an abstract within this theme or within a subtheme (see attached CFP) and meet with more than hundreds of scholars next June in the southern part of Denmark. We can proudly present the host of the 18^th Uddevalla Symposium 2015 - University of Southern Denmark, campus Sönderborg! We are really looking forward moving the Uddevalla Symposium to Denmark!

Deadline for Abstract submission is January 16^th, 2015.(less than two months ahead)

We are also very proud of presenting our invited Key-note speakers:

Prof. Cristiano Antonelli, University of Torino, Italy
Dr. Georgeanne M. Artz, Iowa State University, USA

Prof. Dan Breznitz,  University of Toronto, Canada
Prof. Johannes Bröcker,  Christian-Alberchts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany

Prof. Cristina Chaminade, CIRCLE, Lund University, Sweden

Prof. Yvonne von Friedrichs, Mid Sweden University, Sweden

Prof. Henrik Halkier,  Aalborg University, Denmark
Prof. Simona Iammarino, London School of Economics, UK

Prof. Franz W. Kellermanns, University of North Carolina – Charlotte, USA

Prof. Ram Mudambi, Temple University, USA

Prof. André Torre, National Institute for Agronomic Research, Paris, France

Best regards,

Iréne Bernhard

On behalf of the organizing committee

Académicos y profesionales del área de ciencias políticas y sociales, provenientes de México, Bolivia, Colombia, Argentina y Chile, se darán cita el próximo 25 de noviembre y por primera vez en nuestro país, en el Seminario Internacional ICHEM “Descentralización o recentralización. Nuevos acercamientos a los gobiernos subnacionales de América Latina”.

La actividad, organizada por el Instituto Chileno de Estudios Municipales, ICHEM, de la Universidad Autónoma de Chile, se llevará a cabo en el auditorio de la casa de estudios, sede Providencia (Pedro de Valdivia 641), y contará con la exposición del destacado economista boliviano, ex investigador de CEPAL y hombre clave en materia de descentralización en Latinoamérica durante las últimas dos décadas, Iván Finot.

Además, el seminario contará con otros grandes investigadores y académicos especialistas en esta temática a nivel latinoamericano, como:

• Antonio Sánchez Bernal, presidente de la Red de Investigadores en Gobiernos Locales Mexicanos, IGLOM; profesor de la Universidad de Guadalajara y experto en desarrollo económico local
• Daniel Cravacuore, director de la maestría en Gobierno Local de la Universidad de Quilmes y editor de la Revista RIEM.
• Bernardo Navarrete, director del Programa de Gobiernos Locales de la Universidad de Santiago de Chile.
• José Hernández, Doctor en Ciencias Políticas, investigador ICHEM y miembro del Grupo de Investigación en Gobiernos, Administración y Políticas Públicas, GIGAPP.

Al respecto, el secretario general del ICHEM, Camilo Vial, comento que el evento “se realizará en un momento donde el debate sobre la descentralización está en un punto alto, tras la entrega final del Informe de la Comisión Asesora Presidencial. Traer experiencias extranjeras de países latinoamericanos que ya han pasado por reformas similares, con éxitos y fracasos, nos servirá tremendamente como aportes a nuestro propio proceso”.

En tanto, el investigador del ICHEM y coordinador general de la actividad, José Hernández, indicó que “es necesario recordar que América Latina cuenta con más de 30 años de experiencia en materia de descentralización. Este seminario buscará aprovechar dichas prácticas, con el análisis de connotados expertos en el área, entre ellos, Iván Finot, quien es unode los principales investigadores sobre descentralización en nuestra región”.

Inscripciones (de carácter gratuito) a:  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.

Fuente: http://ichem.uautonoma.cl/seminario-internacional-ichem-abordara-exitos-y-fracasos-de-los-fenomenos-de-descentralizacion-y-recentralizacion-en-america-latina/#prettyPhoto

The Department is proud to announce the program for its next Air Transport Colloquium which will take place on Thursday 4 December 2014. This year you can expect many interesting contributions from top-level academics as well as industry stakeholders on the topic “The European Aviation Business in 2014 and beyond: how to turn challenges into opportunities?”

New to the concept of the 2014 colloquium is that two interactive parallel workshops will be organized: one on air cargo and one on the business positioning of airlines. The workshops will stimulate the exchange of knowledge and discussion between participants. Next to the workshops, the program consists of presentations by experts from academia and the aviation industry. The colloquium concludes with a panel discussion.

So register now for the Air Transport Colloquium 2014!

For more information on the colloquium, you can contact Evy Onghena.

We hope to be able to welcome you at this interesting event!

Final conference on retrofitting of ships with green technologies

‘To retrofit or not to retrofit'    

Dear Sir or Madam,

The FP7 project RETROFIT has developed methods and tools to assist ship owners throughout their decision making process. On January 20th, 2015 project RETROFIT results will be presented in a final conference with workshops. During this event simulation tools for technical and economic evaluation of retrofitting will be demonstrated:

- Voyage and energy systems simulation

- Technology choices and options

- Process support: reverse technology and process simulation

- Economic aspects of green retrofitting

The conference/workshops will further include interactive parallel sessions with small groups, testimonies from real practice and a moderated session and panel discussion.  

Retrofitting ships with green technologies is an actual challenge for ship owners having to comply amongst others with new emission regulations, for example the January 1st 2015 SECA regulation. The choice of suitable green technologies, the resulting energy and emission performance and the expected costs versus the benefits are important issues for the ship owner decision.

Programme

09.00 hrs.             Registration

09.15 hrs.             Plenary session

09.30 hrs.             Start parallel presentations

12.00 hrs.             Lunch

13.00 hrs.             Plenary session

13.30 hrs.             Start workshops

                             Presentation of workshops results

                             Panel discussion

17.00 hrs.             Closing remarks

                             Drinks

Registration

The conference is free of charge. Subscribe here.

Note

Participation is limited to the first sixty registrations

Travel information

Flights arriving at Schiphol Airport

Flights arriving at Rotterdam-The Hague Airport

By train/bus/metro/tram

By car

After registration you will receive more information about venue, hotels and travel possibilities.

More information

For more information about RETROFIT click here or contact Annemarie Labee, Innovation Project Assistant Netherlands Maritime Technology, via T +31 (0) 10 44 44 333 or E This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Kind Regards,

Marnix Krikke

Innovation Director

Netherlands Maritime Technology         

The School of Social Ecology and the Metropolitan Futures Initiative (MFI) seek applications to fill a full-time Postdoctoral Fellow position in the urban social sciences.  Funding is available for up to two years, to be reviewed after the first year.  The position is expected to begin sometime early 2015.  This postdoctoral position is part of the interdisciplinary MFI project (http://socialecology.uci.edu/mfi) directed by Professor John Hipp. Candidates are required to have a PhD in such fields as criminology, urban planning, geography, sociology, or other fields related to urban/regional studies. 

We seek a self-driven, creative thinker with strong quantitative and interpersonal skills to help accomplish an important and interesting set of research tasks.  The successful candidate will supervise a team of graduate and undergraduate students working on a coordinated set of urban research projects that will manage large data sources on characteristics of the region, work on various spatial techniques in addition to traditional social science quantitative methods, and collaborate on grant writing and publications.  While training in spatial analysis skills is not essential, the ability to either learn or work with others who possess such skills is.  A working knowledge of the literature related to urban/regional studies (regardless of the specific discipline) is not required but desired; an intellectual interest in interdisciplinary study is essential. 

The postdoctoral position also entails a leadership role in the Metropolitan Futures Initiative (MFI). As part of this role, the successful candidate will take the lead in organizing the intellectual work that is the MFI Regional Progress Report, a report released every other year.  In addition, this position will allow collaborating with the faculty leadership of MFI on original research projects. 

Overall, it is expected that the postdoc will engage in high level research and be involved in analysis and publication on projects currently underway at the University of California Irvine.  The candidate would also be encouraged to maintain an independent set of research interests.  The role will be supported by a vast array of resources at the University of California, Irvine.

Salary is highly competitive and commensurate with experience and is benefits-eligible.  Applicants will need to submit a dossier including: (1) a curriculum vitae, (2) a cover letter of interest, and (3) arrange to have three letters of recommendation uploaded electronically.

The University of California, Irvine is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer advancing inclusive excellence. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, age, protected veteran status, or other protected categories covered by the UC nondiscrimination policy. A recipient of an NSF ADVANCE award for gender equity, UCI is responsive to the needs of dual career couples, supports work-life balance through an array of family-friendly policies, and is dedicated to broadening participation in higher education.

To ensure your application is given full consideration, files should be completed by December 31, 2014. Priority will be given to applications received by this date; however, applications will be accepted until the position is filled. Please direct questions about this position to Professor John Hipp at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Applications must be uploaded electronically.

 The recruit link for this position is:   https://recruit.ap.uci.edu/apply/JPF02664