On behalf of the Organizing Committee of the IV World Planning Schools Congress in Rio de Janeiro, may I remind you that the CALL FOR ABSTRACTS IS OPEN FOR ONE MORE WEEK ONLY.

The extended deadline for abstract submission is October 19th, 2015

So far more than 220 authors from more than 90 institutions have already submitted their abstracts.

The call for abstracts is available in detail by each track, so please click on tracks for descriptions.

To submit an abstract please enter the home page of the Congress site and click the LOGIN | REGISTER button on the top right side of the page. After registering you can submit your abstracts.

The procedures are explained in Call for Papers and Submissions

WAYS TO SUBMIT EXTENDED ABSTRACTS
The tracks accept proposals of extended abstracts for: (i) Individual submission (with several co-authors) for a particular track as oral presentation of a full paper (non peer review); and (ii) proposals for the collective organization of Roundtable/Panel within a track, which features contributions from several authors. (iii) Other modalities like Poster Presentation or Specially Convened Sessions – (a) academic only; (b) policy research only; and (c) academic and policy research - have to be combined directly with the co-chairs of the tracks. Those, who want to participate in these modalities, must be registered necessarily for attendance.

SUBMISSION RULES
All abstracts and papers presented must be written in English. Unfortunately, any other language will not be accepted.
The extended abstracts submitted may not have less than 4000 characters, approximately 700 words, not including bibliography and illustrations. It should be written in Word (.doc), with Times New Roman, size 12 with simple interline and justified margins.
All abstracts sent to the organizing committee which do not obey these limitations will not be considered for presentation, without obligation of the organizing committee to send any notification to the authors that violate this requirement.
Abstracts should contain a clear statement of the problem, objectives, methodology and main results and contributions.
In case of a submission of a Round Table/Panel it is necessary to inform, in the text of the abstract, names of colleagues and their institutional linkages from those who will participate.
Each author is entitled to present a maximum of two abstracts.

Please also note that, every five years when World Planning Schools Conference is held, AESOP does not hold its annual congress in Europe but instead joins the global planning community at the WPSCs. Therefore, in 2016 we will not be organising an AESOP congress in Europe and invite you all to join the WPSC2016.

Thanks in advance for spreading out these informations in your schools and among your colleagues.

Looking forward to seeing you all in Rio de Janeiro.

11th AFRICA-EUROPE Training Course for Youth Organisations   to be held between 8 November and 15 November 2015 Nairobi, Kenya   In the framework of the 7th African University on Youth and Development The training course aims...

11th AFRICA-EUROPE Training Course

for Youth Organisations

to be held between 8 November and 15 November 2015

Nairobi, Kenya

In the framework of the 7th African University on Youth and Development

The training course aims to:

• strengthen the role of youth organisations as civil society actors and enable youth to organise and take action;
• reinforce its political participation in Africa-Europe co-operation;
• promote the global citizenship of young people in Europe and Africa.   

All information at http://www.aeyco.com/opportunities/view/3317/call-for-participants-11th-africa-europe-training-course-for-youth-organisations

Dear colleagues!

The Department of Human Geography and Regional Studies, the School of Geology, Geography, Recreation and Tourism, V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University (Ukraine) invites you to take part in the International Scientific and Practical Conference «Region-2015: Optimal Development Strategy» and to publish your articles in the scientific journal «JOURNAL OF HUMAN GEOGRAPHY», included in the scientometric base Index Copernicus. The information letters are in the attached files.

The web-site of the journal: http://hgj.univer.kharkov.ua/index.php/en/

If you have any questions, please, write to the following e-mails:

This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. – on publishing theses to the conference.

This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. – on the publishing manuscripts in the journal.

The web-site of the department:

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

Sincerely, Ludmila Niemets,

Head of the Department of Social and Economic Geography and Regional Studies, School of Geology, Geography, Recreation and Tourism, V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University

Building bridges in regional science

2016 conference participation support

The RSAI will facilitate the participation of researchers from low-income and lower-middle-income economies (as defined by the World Bank:  http://data.worldbank.org/about/country-and-lending-groups#Low_income) at the three largest Regional Science Conferences in 2016: World Congress (May), PRSCO( July),  ERSA (August) and NARSC (November).

The RSAI will provide a subsidy of USD 500 (or the equivalent in other currencies) to selected researchers. This is likely to cover the conference registration fee and some local travel costs. Alternative means of financing will have to be sought for international travel and accommodation.

Only one author of a submitted paper presentation proposal can apply for a subsidy.

Interested researchers should upload a two-page CV plus a one-page motivation –  including a budget with proposed sources of funding of the conference-related registration, travel and accommodation costs – within 30 days of receiving confirmation of the acceptance of the researcher’s abstract by the conference organizers.

Applications can be uploaded using the following link.

Applicants should have had a paper accepted for presentation at the conference.

All applications will be reviewed by the RSAI Executive, who will make a decision on the candidates to fund. Their decision will be final.

Dear NECTAR friends,

Please find enclosed a call for papers for a Joint Cluster 2 and Cluster 3 International Workshop on “The role of planning towards sustainable urban mobility”, to be held at the Transport Research Centre, Brno, the Czech Republic. This meeting is scheduled for the 17^th and 18^th of May 2016 and abstracts are expected by the 31^st of January 2016.

Best regards

Ana Condeço-Melhorado

The deadline for Abstract submission to the Special Issue "Urban Agriculture: Fostering the Urban-Rural Continuum" that will be published by Challenges in Sustainability was extended to 1st November 2015.

The Special Issue will consist of contributions selected from the 5th Rencontres Internationales de Reims on Sustainability Studies, hosted by the International Research Center on Sustainability at the Rheims University, France. The event will occur on October the 15th and 16th 2015, focussing this year on urban agriculture. For more information, please visit the website of the event at:

http://www.sustainability-studies.org/rencontres/5th-international-rencontres-october-2015-en/

For aditional information, plese visit the website of the Special Issue:

http://www.librelloph.com/challengesinsustainability/pages/view/specialissues

We are looking forward to hearing back from you.

Associate Professor, Department of Social Sciences, Illinois Institute of Technology
Applications are invited for a tenured position as Associate Professor in the Department of Social Sciences at IIT. We seek a methodologically engaged scholar in any social science discipline (except history and psychology) to help us develop a degree and build capacity in the broad area of Science, Technology, and Society (STS) and to contribute to an established program in Social and Economic Development Policy (SEDP).
We seek a scholar with an established record of research employing both quantitative and qualitative methods. The successful candidate will come with experience in teaching courses in advanced quantitative methods and one or more of the following topics: science and technology policy; economic development; technology transfer and adaptation; science, technology, innovation, and social change; and/or the economics of innovation.
A PhD in a related social science discipline or interdisciplinary program and a record of research, teaching and service commensurate with appointment as a tenured associate professor are minimum requirements of all applicants. A competitive salary and start-up package will be offered to the selected candidate.
IIT is a mid-sized, private, PhD-granting university with an international student body. IIT is recognized for its research and education in engineering, science, architecture, law, design, computer science, psychology, and business, and the strategic plan of the university encourages collaborations across the colleges (2006 Carnegie Classifications: Research University/High; Doc/STEM graduate instructional program.)
Jointly with other departments in the Lewis College of Human Sciences, the department also offers a BS in Applied Analytics as well as a BS/JD with Chicago-Kent College of Law and a BS/MPA co-terminal degree with the Stuart School of Business. A medium-term goal is to add an interdisciplinary graduate program. The department is located on the main campus, south of Chicago’s downtown Loop area. Additional information about the university and the department can be found at http://humansciences.iit.edu/social-sciences.
Email a letter of interest, an up-to-date CV, contact information for three references, a research statement, a teaching statement, three representative publications, and syllabi from courses taught that are relevant to this position to: Gwen Murphy, Social Sciences Department Coordinator, Lewis College of Human Sciences, Illinois Institute of Technology, 3301 S. Dearborn St., Siegel Hall 116, Chicago, IL 60616; email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Review of applications begins October 26, 2015, and continues until the position is filled.
Illinois Institute of Technology is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.

Professor Dr. Horváth Gyula (1951-2015)

Hungarian social science has suffered a great loss with the tragically sudden death of Gyula Horváth. Gyula Horváth was for 15 years Director-General of the Centre for Regional Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, he was also scientific advisor of the HAS Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, professor of the University of Pécs and Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Gyula Horváth would have been 64 years old on the 4th of October.

With his passing we have lost a friend, scientist, professor, establisher of scientific schools and organiser of scientific research who was irreplaceable not only for his immediate fellow workers but also for his city and region and the larger domestic and international scientific community.

Gyula Horváth was an internationally acknowledged and leading personality within Hungarian regional science. His research focused on the exploration of spatial processes in Europe, Hungary and the Carpathian Basin. He was an extremely productive scientist and he published his scientific achievements in dozens of monographs, edited volumes, as well as several hundreds of scientific studies in Hungary and abroad. He successfully and frequently obtained research grants both in Hungary and from international sources in order to promote scientific endeavour at the Centre for Regional Studies. His knowledge was also frequently sought by regional development agencies, planning authorities, and several different international expert bodies. He was also a founding figure of modern Hungarian regional studies and established doctoral schools in regional science as well as university educational programmes. The trans-border schools of Hungarian regional science were organised with his assistance. Scientific schools and generations of scholars are thankful for all his support.

Gyula Horváth was a central figure in the scientific community. He was the founding president of the Hungarian Regional Science Association, a member of the Kossuth and Széchenyi Award’s Architectural and Regional Development Subcommittee. He was the president of the Committee on Regional Science of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, member of the Academia Europaea (London), and of the Hungarian Science Abroad Presidential Committee. He was also member of the Executive Board of the Association of European Schools of Planning and the regional policy evaluation committee of the Research and Technological Development Programme of the European Union. He also served on the editorial boards of different domestic and international journals.

Besides several other prizes and awards he was granted the Széchenyi Scholarship, the Pro Regio Award, the Award of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Hungarian Government’s Széchenyi Award. His rising scientific career, nomination as the corresponding membership of the HAS and his submitted application for the position of the Director General of the CERS HAS were interrupted by his tragic departure.

His colleagues, the domestic and international regional scientific community, and a large community of academics, politicians and civil society actors committed to regionalism and decentralisation are all affected by this loss.

The CERS HAS Institute for Regional Studies will always remember him and will make all efforts to implement his vision. His absence is painful, he is irreplaceable and, at the same time, he has provided us much intellectual motivation to continue his work and to further represent the spirit of regionalism.

The collective of the HAS Centre for Regional Studies shares the pain of his family. 

Abstracts welcome on any area, including transport, service analysis and planning, economic geography, urban and rural planning, crime, tourism etc: please send to Graham Clarke; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by 31st December 2015