The December 2017 NARSC Newsletter is available. It can be found at http://www.narsc.org/newsite/home/blog/.

Dear professors and fellow graduate students,

West Virginia University will host the 11th Annual Midwest Graduate Student Summit on Applied Economics and Regional and Urban  Studies (AERUS) on April 7-8, 2018.  

The summit is designed for graduate students to initiate intellectual dialogue on a wide array of research areas and spur future research collaborations among participating scholars in a welcoming environment.  Work at any stage will be accepted, including completed research, research in progress, and research idea/proposal.

Attached you can find our call for abstracts.  Please help us circulate this message among your colleagues and students.

The deadline for submission is February 23rd. Please submit your abstracts to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Guidelines for submission can be found on the official AERUS website: https://sites.google.com/view/aerus2018

If you have any questions, please contact us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., or visit our website: https://sites.google.com/view/aerus2018 

Regards,

AERUS 2018 Local Organizing Committee

Dear NECTAR colleagues,

Please find enclosed the call for papers of NECTAR CL7 – Social and Health Issues in Transportation.  The workshop will take place in Utrecht (NL), during June 7-8, 2018.

Extended deadline February 15, 2018

Kind regards 

--

Ana Condeço-Melhorado

NECTAR Secretary

12th RSAI Congress, Goa, India

Spatial Systems: Social Integration, Regional Development and Sustainability

Less than five days left... Submit NOW!

Last Call! The deadline to enter submissions for RSAI2018 is approaching quickly.

Don't miss this chance to submit your abstract  by this coming Sunday 21 January.

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.

With warmest regards,

The Organizing Committee

GRAN SASSO SCIENCE INSTITUTE: 3 POSTDOC POSITIONS IN URBAN STUDIES AND REGIONAL SCIENCE, DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION: MARCH 2ND.

The positions are for two years and the monthly (net) salary is 2360 euros. We are particularly interested in applied economists, economic geographers and urban planners.

For details and applications please visit: http://www.gssi.it/postdoc

On behalf of the Faculty of economics, business and tourism, Split, The Regional Science Academy and Regional Science Association International, we would like to inform you that registration for the Summer School titled "From Smart to Intelligent Cities" ( June 18^th  to June 22^nd , 2018, Split, Croatia) is OPEN NOW.

To register, please visit:http://summer.efst.hr

Please take into consideration the following important dates for applications:

• "Early bird" application deadline: February 28, 2018
  (discounted prices available)
• "Regular" application deadline: April 30, 2018

The EF ST Summer School "From Smart to Intelligent Cities" represents a unique opportunity to learn and discuss about structures, actors, processes and challenges of the regional and urban development, smart city management and touristic development in dialogue with leading international academics, experts and practitioners.

TARGET AUDIENCE:

The Summer School has been tailored to upper-year undergraduates, graduate students, PhD students and professionals from all over the world with an interest in different aspects of urban and regional development, smart city management and tourism.
We encourage the participation of students in other applied fields who want to improve their knowledge in the field as well.

 ORGANIZATION:

 Summer School “FROM SMART TO INTELLIGENT CITIES" comprises of three courses:

1.  "Concepts, Methods, Policy Framework"
http://summer.efst.hr/Courses/From-Smart-to-Intelligent-Cities-concepts-methods-policy-framework

2.   "Concepts, Methods, Digital Transformation"
http://summer.efst.hr/Courses/From-Smart-to-Intelligent-Cities-Concepts-Methods-Digital-Transformation

3.   "Concepts, Methods, Tourism Development"
http://summer.efst.hr/Courses/From-Smart-To-Intelligent-Cities-Concepts-Methods-Touristic-Development

 IMPORTANT DATES:

• Registration open: January 15, 2018
• "Early bird" application deadline: February 28, 2018
• "Regular" application deadline: April 30, 2018
• Notification of Acceptance: May 7, 2018
• Payment deadline: May 28, 2018

 We would be grateful if you could share the announcement within your network and forward the information below on to anyone who you feel may be interested in attending the EFST Summer School  From Smart to Intelligent Cities.

For further details visit: http://summer.efst.hr

If you have any questions, please contact: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

We look forward to your submission and welcoming you to the beautiful city of Split in June 2018!

Best regards,

Vinko Muštra
Chairperson of the Programme committee

Marina Tudor
Programme coordinator

Dear Colleagues,

The Department of Culture and Society and the Department of Business Economics and Statistics at the University of Palermo, Italy, are delighted to announce the 15th European Union Regional Economics Applications Laboratory (EU REAL) Workshop,with a focus on Societal challenges and opportunities in regional development, which will be held in Palermo (Sicily) in September 3-4, 2018.

It is an immense pleasure to welcome the EU-REAL community in order to jointly discuss research ideas and topics and to enhance the cooperation among our institutions.

We invite contribution on topics related (but not limited to):

- Regional economic growth and development

- Regional, rural and urban policy

- Infrastructure, transport flows and networks among regions

- Input-Output (I-O) and Computable General Equilibrium models (CGEs)

- Tourism and regional development

- Migration and regional labor markets

- Regional healthcare planning and migration flows

- Quantitative methods for regional sciences

- Spatial concentration

- Spatial income inequalities

- Natural environment, resources and sustainable development

 Abstracts should be sent in Doc or Pdf -format, with a maximum of 500 words, including author's name(s), affiliation(s), main topic and 3-5 keywords and be sent to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by May 15th 2018. 

 Looking forward to seeing you soon, in Palermo.

Best

Mauro Ferrante

Intensive Course Program – Urban and Regional, Transportation and Environmental Economics

Special Session (SS23) on: Ocean observation and exploitation: from deep sea to space 

Organisers:

António Sarmento – WAVEC, Universidade de Lisboa (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

António Pascoal – IST, Universidade de Lisboa (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Miguel Miranda – IPMA, Universidade de Lisboa (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Ramiro Neves - IST, Universidade de Lisboa (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

The aim and scope of the special session:

There is an increasing demand for overall ocean data including the seafloor, the water column, the ocean surface, and the atmosphere above it. This is a formidable challenge due to the complexity of the ocean environment spatial and temporal variability. Satellites are a powerful ocean observation and surveillance tools although the data they produce requires special processing tools to yield valuable information. Another issue with satellite data stems from the low frequency of the observations over a given area at sea. To overcome this problem, there is widespread interest in the development and deployment of microsatellites and nanosatellites as a means to acquire data at the appropriate temporal and spatial scales. Though satellite data is of great relevance, the technology used only allows for data acquisition in a relatively thin layer of the ocean surface. Data in the water column is also of crucial importance and must be acquired in situ. This poses another set of operational challenges, specifically in offshore and exposed sites. Finally, data from the ocean seafloor requires yet another set of monitoring tools, which differ from the above. In this context, marine technologies, including marine robots, are expected to play an increasingly important tool in the acquisition of ocean data at unprecedented temporal and spatial scales. Data integration and assimilation will not be possible without numerical simulation tools allowing for proper merging of data and models running at appropriate spatial and temporal scale and capable of providing climate reconstitution and forecasts both in the short term (operational forecasts) and in the long term (climate change analysis). Both short and long-term forecasts are critical for the development of ocean economic activities in the design, investment, and operation phases. In line with the above trends, this workshop invites contributions related to space observation and modelling, in situ monitoring, deep sea floor mapping and ocean technologies (including ocean robotics) for marine renewable energy, offshore aquaculture and ocean mining.

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.