C-MAT offers a comprehensive one year Master of Science in Maritime and Air Transport Management (60 ECTS) which prepares its graduates for the challenges faced by the transport sector today.
 
Application for academic year 2017-2018 is still possible for European candidates until the end of August 2017 by using the Application tool.
We also still have grants available for students!
 
In the first semester of the programme students have the option to choose between Management Fundamentals and Research Fundamentals. The option Management Fundamentals is designed for students who want to upgrade their knowledge and abilities in transport business and economics to become top-notch executives. It mainly prepares them for a management career in the maritime or air transport sector. The option Research Fundamentals on the other hand offers students a more methodological and quantitative training. Students receive an excellent preparation for a career in for example consulting, policy or research in the maritime or air transport sector. Moreover, this option can lay the groundwork for further academic pursuits such as a PhD.
 
In the second semester, students then make a choice between a major in Air Transport or Maritime Transport. In this way, students can even more tailor their programme to their specific interests and background.
 
During the course of the programme students become truly submerged in industry practice thanks to numerous excursions, company visits and a master’s thesis in collaboration with industry actors.
 
For more detailed information visit our C-MAT website

Lead Organizer: Geoffrey J.D. Hewings, University of Illinois, USA and Nankai University, China

We are planning a series of special sessions at the World Congress to highlight the work of younger scholars (under 40 years of age). A maximum of forty presentations will be accommodated. There is no limitation on topics but the presentation should highlight innovative methodology, or new applications, creative use of data and important policy relevance. Sessions will be chaired by senior RSAI colleagues who will also serve as session discussants. The final session, to which all participants are invited, will focus on general comments and feedback and suggestions for preparation for publication.

Please submit your paper for consideration to Geoffrey Hewings (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) in the following format:

Name:

Affiliation

Age

Title of Paper:

Abstract of Paper

A Maximum of three summary statements (one sentence each) highlighting the value added of the paper.

The deadline for submission is November 30, 2017.

http://regionalscience.org/2018worldcongress/

The Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development (NERCRD) is a small research and outreach unit located in the Department of Agricultural Economics, Sociology and Education within Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences.   Our mission is to work on a range of issues with land grant universities and other partners in the Northeast as well as nationally in support of rural development.

The NERCRD seeks applications for a one-year post-doc position, with good chances of renewal subject to funding.  The post-doc will be responsible for conducting economic and statistical analyses on a wide range of rural development topics, as determined by the Center’s emerging needs and priorities.  There is a strong expectation that this research will contribute both to the science base as well as to informing U.S. rural economic development policy.   A part of the research portfolio will include assessing the impacts of different federal policies over time and space. Importantly, the opportunity exists to work with Penn State’s Census Data Center.  Examples of topics to be studied range from policy impact assessments (including the impact of farm subsidies and extension education); determinants of poverty including the roles of automation and global competition; and the interdependence of rural and urban areas, as well as agricultural and non-agricultural industries; to the determinants of health and well-being, including addiction and drug overdoses.

Qualifications: The candidate will have extensive training in state-of-the-art economics or a related field and econometric analysis, including spatial statistics, as well as excellent communications and writing skills.  In addition, he or she will have extensive experience with a variety of statistical packages.  The candidate needs to be able to both work well independently and also to function effectively in a team setting.

To apply send a statement of interest in the position, two writing samples, and names of and contact information for three references to Stephan Goetz at  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

THEME
SUSTAINABLE URBAN AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH AND POLICY CHALLENGES FOR THE ASIA PACIFIC RIM
DATE AND PLACE
December 8-10, 2017, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China
ORGANIZED BY:
Renmin University of China
The Regional Science Academy (TRSA)
Regional Science Association International (RSAI)

Registration Form 

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Edited by Maria Giulia Pezzi (Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy), Alessandra Faggian (Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy) and Neil Reid (University of Toledo, USA)

Discussing the linkages between local entrepreneurship and tourism provides an intriguing starting point for a wider reflection on the role of existing policies and of emerging practices in fostering local development in peripheral areas.

Peripheral areas can be considered as areas relatively far from urban hubs providing essential services, typically suffering from de-anthropisation and marginalisation, though provided with a wide range of environmental, cultural and social resources.

In this sense, the investigation of the linkages between local entrepreneurship and tourism in peripheral areas, and of the role of existing policies and of the arising bottom-up practices in fostering local development, is aimed at deconstructing basic dichotomies often emerging when dealing with such issues, i.e. rural-urban and/or centre-periphery relationships, innovation vs tradition, authenticity vs mise en scene, agency vs inertia, social, cultural, economic mobility vs immobility etc. Moreover, focussing attention on the possible compliance or conflicting strategies of local actors with existing policies allows the possibilities arising from the analysis of local entrepreneurs as agents of change to be taken into consideration

In focusing on relevant case studies we are able to shed light on local entrepreneurship in peripheral areas in relation to tourism. Representative topics shall include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Theoretical and practical approaches to the concept of peripherality in relation to tourism entrepreneurialism and the emergence of peculiar tourism-niches (e.g. food tourism in rural areas);
• The role of local entrepreneurship in the development of tourism in peripheral areas as a form of resilience to the implications of (economic) marginality;
• Migrants’ forms of agency and their impact on local entrepreneurship in peripheral areas in relation to the leisure market (i.e. leisure migrants);
• The possible ways in which different takes on tradition and innovation can influence territorial marketing strategies in peripheral areas;
• The “tourismification” and/ or “touristification” (Salazar 2009) of material and immaterial heritage in peripheral areas as a possible consequence of local entrepreneurship;
• Key factors in the development of a tourism-led local entrepreneurship in peripheral areas;
• Challenges of tourism promotion and local development: the urban- rural nexus;
• Competitive strategies among local entrepreneurs in rural/peripheral area tourism.

We welcome submissions of relevant case studies analyses from economics, regional sciences, anthropology, sociology, geography, and critical tourism/leisure studies.

Submission Process

Abstracts of max 300 words, written in English, should be submitted for selection to Maria Giulia Pezzi at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., by August 31st, 2017. Please CC Alessandra Faggian (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) and Neil Reid (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).

Acceptance will be notified by September 15th, 2017.

Full papers to be submitted by December 20^th, 2017

The special issue is expected to be published by June 2018.

The following information should be included with the abstract:

– Title of submitted paper

– Name(s) of Author(s), affiliation, email

– Professional background/current position

If you are a student and would like to enter your paper into one of the two NARSC student paper competitions please note that the August 1 deadline for submitting your paper (and associated support materials) is fast approaching. There are two student-paper competitions - Graduate-Student-Author Paper Competition and Graduate-Student-Led Paper Competition. More details about each competition, including submission rules, can be found here - http://www.narsc.org/newsite/awards-prizes/narsc-student-competitions/.

If you have questions about the Graduate-Student-Author Paper Competition, please contact Professor John Miron  at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

If you have questions about the Graduate-Student-Led Paper Competition, please contact Professor Daoqin Tong at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

As the science and knowledge service of the Commission, the mission of DG Joint Research Centre is to support EU policies with independent evidence throughout the whole policy cycle.
The JRC is located in 5 Member States (Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain). Further information is available at: https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/
The current vacancy is with the Demography, Migration and Governance Unit, of the Space Security and Migration Directorate. This Unit carries out research in support of EU policies on migration and is responsible for the Knowledge Centre on Migration and Demography.
The European Commission Knowledge Centre on Migration and Demography (KCMD) is a Commission's independent body – steered by all the relevant services – tasked to provide solid scientific evidence for the development, implementation and evaluation of migration and demographic policies, not only in the framework of the migration and refugee crisis, but also in managing migration and addressing the demographic decline in the medium to longer term.
The KCMD is there to support and help to anticipate trends, and it serves the objectives of the European Agenda on Migration. The three pillars of the KCMD are: 1) Building the evidence base, conducting analysis and foresight; 2) Exploiting the knowledge base and facilitating uptake by stakeholders; 3) Partnerships and networking to extend the knowledge base. The JRC is responsible for its daily activities.
The successful candidate will contribute to on-going underpinning lines of research in the framework of the work undertaken by the KCMD. This research will concern the use of novel and alternative data sources to fill existing gaps of information relevant for migration and mobility. The successful candidate will be requested to handle, pre-process and analyse large amount of data covering, among others, the following:
 development and testing of a model to predict migration flows and stocks on the basis of international air passengers’ data;
 analysis of public perceptions on migration on the basis of data specifically collected from Twitter for the purpose;
 analysis of international mobility and ethnic segregation on the basis of mobile phone data.
The candidates should have completed post-graduate level studies in the field of data science, computer science, statistics or relevant discipline. They need to have either a PhD degree or at least 5 years of relevant working experience after their master's degree and a good publication record.
The job requires capacity to clean, pre-process and analyse large volumes of data. A good knowledge of programming in Python, R and data analytics software is required.
Experience in developing models and in data-driven research in the fields of human mobility and migration or public perceptions will be considered an asset.
The candidate will be expected to co-author technical reports and scientific publications, in addition to servicing requests for analysis.
Good knowledge of oral and written English (B2 level), communication and presentation skills are necessary.

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As the science and knowledge service of the Commission, the mission of DG Joint Research Centre is to support EU policies with independent evidence throughout the whole policy cycle.
The JRC is located in 5 Member States (Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain). Further information is available at: https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/
The current vacancy is with the Demography, Migration and Governance Unit, of the Space Security and Migration Directorate. This Unit carries out research in support of EU policies on migration and is responsible for the Knowledge Centre on Migration and Demography.
The European Commission Knowledge Centre on Migration and Demography (KCMD) is a Commission's independent body – steered by all the relevant services – tasked to provide solid scientific evidence for the development, implementation and evaluation of migration and demographic policies, not only in the framework of the migration and refugee crisis, but also in managing migration and addressing the demographic decline in the medium to longer term.
The KCMD is there to support and help to anticipate trends, and it serves the objectives of the European Agenda on Migration. The three pillars of the KCMD are: 1) Building the evidence base, conducting analysis and foresight; 2) Exploiting the knowledge base and facilitating uptake by stakeholders; 3) Partnerships and networking to extend the knowledge base. The JRC is responsible for its daily activities.
The successful candidate will be expected to conduct research in the area of labour economics and migration and in particular to:
 draft policy briefs synthetizing the existing literature and knowledge on the integration of migrants in the labour market;
 clean and process microdata from international labour and social surveys;
 perform statistical and econometric analysis;
 formulate policy advice in the area of legal migration and the integration of migrants.
The candidate will be expected to co-author technical reports, scientific publications and policy briefs.
Qualifications:
The job requires an advanced university degree in economics and either a PhD degree or a minimum of 5 years of professional experience after having completed university studies in labour economics with background on quantitative methods and econometric models.
Key requirements are excellent drafting skills in English (C2 level) not only for academic papers but also for
communication material targeted at a policy audience. Oral English C1 level.
The candidate should have proven track record in applied labour economics research and publications in international peer-reviewed journals.
Desirable requirements are expert knowledge and experience in the use of statistical and econometric software (e.g. R, SPSS, STATA).
Experience of working on issues related to migration would be desirable.

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