Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of the Organizing Committee, we are very pleased to invite you to Cartagena (Spain) to participate to the 9th edition of the Seminar of Spatial Econometrics in honour of Professor Jean Paelinck. The workshop will be held in October 6-7, 2017.

The conference aims to provide a forum for debate between young and senior researchers and it is open to both theoretical and applied papers, which deal explicitly with questions of spatial statistics and econometrics. Specially welcomed contributions, but not only, are those related with the general topic of the seminar: “Non Parametric spatial econometrics: Theory and empirical issues”. We especially encourage submission by junior researchers.

Keynote Speakers :

   Prof. Dr. Tapabrata (Taps) Maiti (https://www.stt.msu.edu/~maiti/)

                                    Abstracts submission deadline: 20th July, 2017

                                    Full paper submission deadline: 8th September, 2017

                                    Notification of acceptance of papers: 15th September, 2017

You are invited to submit your paper or abstract  to the following email address: 

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Please find enclosed the call for papers. More information concerning the workshop is available at:

                                       http://metodos.upct.es/9JP/index.html

We are looking forward to meeting you in Cartagena.

Best Regards,

The LOC

Dear NECTARists,

Please find attached a call for papers for a special joint Cluster 2/6 workshop Smart Cities - Governing Accessibility, Air Pollution and Equity at the University of São Paulo, Brazil, August 24-25, 2017

This workshop aims to discuss the complex relationships between transport, urbanization, inequalities in accessibility and air pollution, and the governance and policy implications of the development of smart and equitable cities and transport policies. The workshop focuses on major cities and metropolitan areas in Europe, North America and Brasil.

Please note that is a small sized workshop (20 persons) for which University of São Paulo will apply for co-funding from the São Paulo Research Foundation FAPESP. For this application, the full workshop programme, including abstracts and CVs of presenters, is needed. We will be able to fund airline tickets, meals and accommodation for three nights, for one author per paper, if FAPESP provides funding. In the unlikely case that FAPESP funding is unavailable, conference dinner and accommodation for two nights will be offered to 20 participants, for only one author per paper. In addition to invited speakers a limited number of abstracts will be accepted.

If you are interested to participate in this workshop, please send an abstract of your presentation (about 500 words) including author names and affiliations and keywords, and your CV (2-4 pages) in PDF format to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. before January 31, 2017.

Best,

Karst Geurs

Call forAbstracts and Special Session Proposals

It is our pleasure to announce the 24th APDR Congress, to be held at the University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal, from July 6 to July 7, 2017.

Theme of the Conference:

Intellectual Capital and Regional Development: New landscapes and challenges for space planning

The 24th APDR Congress has the following central theme: Intellectual Capital and Regional Development: New landscapes and challenges for space planning. After 23 years, the APDR’s Annual Congress returns to the University of Beira Interior, for positioning intellectual capital and regional development as a key theme for public policies and the agenda of the collaborative community of politicians, entrepreneurs, researchers and citizens interested in promoting endogenous growth, combined with the institutions, systems and new functional and integrative type designs, for promoting symbiosis among economic, social and political agents, in the joint task of (re) designing a new competitive space, at the regional level. In this context, the central theme chosen is of major importance, since it is urgent to expand the ongoing debate on the importance of identifying, monitoring and managing the different components of regional-based intellectual capital, in order to stimulate a structural change in the scope of innovation and development regimes, funded on endogenous growth factors.
The 24th APDR Congress aims to address different questions, namely: What are the regional development models applicable in peripheral and low population density economies? How can intellectual capital promote regional development? Are higher education institutions a vehicle that promotes quality of life and innovation at the level of cities? Can services contribute to sustainable regions? How to plan regional space from a perspective of entrepreneurial and innovative ecosystems? How to finance regional planning and development? What transport networks should the trans-European regions have? What should be the new productive specializations in the regions? Can sport be a motor for regional development?
The Congress will include a Policy Forum, Plenary Sessions, Special Sessions, Conferences and Round Tables, Workshops and Parallel Sessions.
The Parallel Sessions will include: (i) communications submitted to Regular Sessions (RS) proposed by the organization; And (ii) communications submitted to Special Sessions (SS), proposed by participants as well as discussion topics included in Workshops proposed by the participants.
The communications presented at the 24th APDR Congress may be published in the Revista Portuguesa de Estudos Regionais (RPER), even though a first version has already been included in the minutes of the Congress. Thus, interested authors should submit their manuscripts, even if revised in relation to the texts presented at the congress. There is no deadline for this submission. The texts must be formatted according to the RPER publication standards: http://www.apdr.pt/siteRPER/PT/submeter.html. The decision of acceptance will follow the standard of habitual exigency, being based on independent external evaluation (peer-reviewing).

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

Themes of specific interest are:

-        Models for Regional Development

-        Regional and Local Development Policies

-        Regional Intellectual Capital

-        Financing of Economic Growth

-        Regional Innovation Systems, Clusters and Ecosystems

-        Regional and Local Public Finance

-        Sectoral Policies and Regional Dynamics

-        Infrastructure, Transportation Networks and Regional Development

-        Labour Markets and Development

-        Entrepreneurship and Regional Development

-        Quality of Life and City Planning

-        Services, Tourism and Sustainable Regions

-        Education, Innovation and Territory

-        Rural Development and Agrarian Economy

-        Regional and Urban Planning and Regional Development

-        Sports and Regional Development

-        Low Density Regions and Development

Deadline  for  Special  Session  proposals:  February  28th,  2017.  Proposals  should be sent by to the secretariat of the Congress  (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).

Deadline for Abstracts submissions: April 28th, 2017. Abstracts should be submitted electronically, using the platform available on the Conference website: https://events.digitalpapers.org/apdr2017/

All information at the congress website: http://www.apdr.pt/congresso/2017/

Looking forward to meeting you in Covilhã!

The Organizing Committee and the Board of APDR

24th APDR Congress

Dear Colleagues/Caríssimos Colegas,

The call for papers for EDULOG’s International Conference on “Economic development in Southern European Regions: Policies and higher education”, that will take place in Porto, on the 25^th and 26^th of May 2017, has been postponed to the 31^st of January: http://conferencia2017.edulog.pt/.

As you already know, EDULOG will be hosting for the first time a Conference dedicated to the link between human capital, higher education (innovation) and regional development, focused on the four Southern European countries, Portugal, Spain, Italy and Greece.

You can find the overall description of the Conference in our website, where you can also register for the event:http://conferencia2017.edulog.pt/

More details will be regularly updated online.

Papers that investigate and/or analyse the following themes are welcome:

§The success or lack of success of policies implemented in the lagging regions of the four countries.

§Theory-based evaluations or quantitative counterfactual evaluations.

§Theories behind the success or failure of policy efforts in this type of regions.

§New policy perspectives or objectives, which should be implemented.

§The interrelation between national and European regional policies and how they can be coordinated and made more complementary.

§Prospective and policy components on the link between human capital, higher education (innovation) and regional development will be particularly welcome.

§Reports from on-going projects on Smart Specialisation Strategies.

I do apologise for any potential cross-posting, and do look forward to welcoming you in Porto.

Please do not hesitate to share this with your colleagues and partners and you can find two documents attached to this email, which can be freely used for the event communication purposes.  

If any questions persist, feel free to contact me.

Kind wishes,

Wendeline van der Feltz

EDULOG Secretary General

Local organizing committee

I am sending to your information the website of the International Award for Local Development.

Http://cieo15.wixsite.com/localdev2017award

Of particular relevance is the call for proposals which is available in several languages ​​here:

Http://cieo15.wixsite.com/localdev2017award/how-to-participate

The different awards will be delivered at an International Conference in Faro (Portugal) in the second half of May.

This conference will have a series of parallel sessions with the possibility of presentation of recent research and best-practices.

Dear NECTAR friends 

The 2017 NECTAR conference on "Transport in a networked society" has extended the deadline for submitting abstracts till January 30th.

Madrid will host this conference during the 31st of May till the 2nd of June 2017.

Find more details in the updated call for papers or at the conference website:

http://eventos.ucm.es/go/nectar2017conference

Kind regards

--

Ana Condeço-Melhorado

NECTAR Secretary

3rd European Congress of Local Governments to be held  27-28^th March, 2017 in Krakow (attached the outline and the promotional video).

The conference will be organized jointly with the City of Krakow. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fG_tz1ccTRA

The December 2016 issue of the newsletter of the North American Regional Science Council is now available online at http://www.narsc.org/newsite/?page_id=417.