4th ERSA Winter School
Applied quantitative methods in Regional Science
13-18 February 2022, Warsaw, Poland*

The European Regional Science Association is pleased to announce, in partnership with the University of Warsaw, the RSAI-ERSA Polish Section and the RSAI,  the organisation of the 4th ERSA Winter School which will be held from the 13th to the 18th of February, 2022 in Warsaw, Poland*.

*The venue may be reconsidered if the pandemic situation changes.

This event will be concentrated around applied spatial quantitative methods such as spatial econometrics, spatial statistics, spatial machine learning, spatio-temporal approach, mapping etc. which are commonly used in economic geography, regional science, as well as in urban and regional planning.

Each participant is expected to present their own project which uses spatial quantitative methods. Projects will be discussed with top-world scholars, who will be teaching during this event.

More details at https://spatial.wne.uw.edu.pl/index.php/winterschool2022/

ERSA Summer School 2022
Circular economy & green growth: challenges for urban, regional and entrepreneurial ecosystems
13 – 17 June 2022, EM Normandy Business School, Caen, France

1st announcement

The European Regional Science Association, in collaboration with ERSA French Speaking Section (ASRDLF) and the EM Normandie Business School, is pleased to announce that the 35th ERSA Summer School will be held at the EM Normandy Business School, Caen, France, from June 13-17, 2022. 

This edition’s topic will feature: “Circular economy & green growth: challenges for urban, regional and entrepreneurial ecosystems”.

The emergence of the circular economy as a new form of economic production raises questions about its integration into the strategies of companies as well as into the orientations of territorial development and territorial ecosystems. This summer school dedicated to the circular economy and green growth will allow to put forward and question reading grids and analytical methods in regional science through high-level conferences, thematic workshops, master class and field experience.

Target and Selection of participants

The ERSA Summer Schools targets Ph.D. students, postdocs and junior researchers with less than 5 years of research experience. The Summer School intends to bring together smart regional science academics from across Europe and the World. The number of participants is limited to approx. 25 participants.  Attention will be paid to gender, age and regional balance when selecting the participants.

More info about the event and the Call for applications will be posted in due time. 

More information at: https://ersa.org/events/35th-ersa-summer-school/

First announcement

Associazione Italiana di Scienze Regionali (AISRe), the Italian Section of the ERSA, is delighted to announce the 3rd AISRe Summer School  which will be held in L’Aquila, and organized with the support of the Gran Sasso Science Institute.

More details will be communicated in due time.

https://www.aisre.it/en/home-tech-english/

NARSC/NERSA Summer School:

“An Integrated Assessment of Climate Change Adaptation Plans for New York City’s Waterfront.” 

The North American Regional Science Council (NARSC), in collaboration with the Northeastern Regional Science Association (NERSA), and Cornell AAP NYC, is pleased to announce that the inaugural NARSC/NERSA summer school will be held on the Cornell Tech Campus on Roosevelt Island in New York City from June 26^th to July 1^st 2022.

The thematic focus of this year’s summer school will be “An Integrated Assessment of Climate Change Adaptation Plans for New York City’s Waterfront.”

Program at a Glance

This Summer School will provide an immersive experience for 12 to 15 Ph.D. students, or post-doctoral researchers who have completed their doctoral studies within the last five years, to work together in interdisciplinary teams to examine aspects of implementing the “New York City Comprehensive Waterfront Plan” and the “Financial District and Seaport Climate Resilience Master Plan” in the Lower Manhattan Waterfront.  Tutorials on theories and methods relevant to this work will be provided.  Participants will be expected to study background materials prior to the summer school and collaborate with other participants after the event to complete a project report and scholarly papers for presentation at the November 2022 NARSC meetings in Montreal and submission to a regional science journal for publication in a special issue. 

Details on the prospective program, the application and admission process, registration fees, and Summer School staffing can be found at http://neregionalscience.org/.

Contacts

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Ukraine: Geopolitical Realities And Regional Development Perspectives

RSSP-RSAI Workshop, May 20 – 21, 2022 | hybrid

This workshop is organized within EURINT conference with the support of Regional Science Policy & Practice (RSPP) and Regional Science Association International (RSAI)

Convenors:

Gabriela Carmen Pascariu (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania); Oksana Holovko-Havrysheva (Ivan Franko National University, Ukraine); Oksana Krayevska (Ivan Franko National University, Ukraine).

Rationale

Ukraine became independent in 1991 after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Like any country in the post-Soviet area it started to develop its own foreign policy, to conduct structural reforms to foster its economic development and it transformed to the key actor for ensuring internationally security, stability and prosperity. After the Euromaidan (2013) and the Revolution of Dignity (2013-2014), Ukrainian society clearly defined the main directions of its foreign policy leading to the incorporation of the European aspirations in the Constitution of Ukraine in 2019.

However, independence and the development of Ukraine became challenged by internal difficulties and geopolitical consequences.

By addressing the internal developments in the country and geopolitical context from an inter/multi/transdisciplinary perspective, this workshop addresses the new political, economic and societal transformations in Ukraine aimed at increasing stability, security and sustainable development inside the country and on the European continent in post war world. Ukraine is trying to overcome different challenges caused by the geopolitical situation, geographical position and economic development, which cause many difficulties for achieving positive outcomes in economic and societal transformation processes internally and externally, especially in the cooperation with neighbouring countries.

However, these challenges could create new opportunity windows for deep and comprehensive internal transformations leading to the modernisation of all spheres of socio-economic and political life in postwar perspective. These new opportunities cover such areas, but are not limited to good governance, strengthening democracy and capacities of political institutions, supporting regional development, ensuring resilience while reaching the sustainable development goals, european perspectives.

It aims, therefore, to bring together papers on theoretical and empirical research results on Ukraine from the multidisciplinary perspectives of economy, governance, institutions, culture/identity/history, international relations, European integration, human security, political science, society and democracy, or environmental issues and how to connect them with the sustainable development and regional development.

The topics proposed for debate are the following:

• ✔Historical Analysis of Evolving Political Geographies and Geoeconomics;
• ✔Actors, Institutions and Commitments: General Characteristics of the International Cooperation Practices of Ukraine;  
• ✔War/Conflict in Ukraine: Looking for Multidisciplinary Solutions and Overcoming Challenges; 
• ✔Content Analysis of Media on the Conflict in Ukraine;
• ✔Economic Development and Striving for Competitive Advantages on Global and Regional Markets;
• ✔Going Digital: Ukrainian Perspectives on Digitalization of Public and Private Life;
• ✔Ukrainian migration: economic, social and legal perspectives;
• ✔Social Development and Spatial Integration in Ukraine;
• ✔Regional Development in Ukraine: Internal and External Dimensions;
• ✔Ukraine in the Baltic-Black Sea Region;
• ✔Walls or Links of European Design;
• ✔Ensuring Security, Stability and Resilience: Ukrainian and Global Perspectives;
• ✔Tackling Environmental Issues: EU Green Deal and Combating Environmental Degradation;
• ✔Transformation of Public Governance in Ukraine: Lost between European Perspectives and Soviet Legacy; 
• ✔Improving Energy Security in Ukraine for Boosting Economic Development and Stability;
• ✔Ensuring Rule of Law in Ukraine: Trends, Achievements and Difficulties;
• ✔EU and Ukraine: Challenge to Integrate;
• ✔Boosting Innovations in Ukraine: The Role of Education, Research and Development policies;
• ✔Overcoming COVID-19 in Ukraine: Reforming Public Health Sector.

More details at: https://eurint.uaic.ro/workshop-rsai.htm 

Call for Submissions

PRSCO Award for Best Paper by a Young Regional Scientist

The Pacific Regional Science Conference Organization (PRSCO) offers a Best Paper Award annually. The Award is aimed at encouraging young regional scientists within the Asia-Pacific region to participate in research within the PRSCO community and to achieve research excellence. PRSCO now invites submissions for the 2022 Award.

The Award will be made for the best submission to the PRSCO Best Paper competition by a young regional scientist, under the age of 35 (on December 31, 2022), who is from a PRSCO-relevant part of the world. The Award rules can be found on the PRSCO web site.

Papers submitted for the Best Paper Award should be presented to 27th the PRSCO online conference Kyoto origin on August 1-4, 2022.

Eligible authors who wish to submit a paper to the PRSCO Best Paper competition should email a pdf copy of their paper to the PRSCO Executive Secretary, Soushi Suzuki, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., by no later than Thursday, June 30, 2022.

Papers will be assessed by a PRSCO Best Paper Selection Committee and the author of the winning paper is expected to be notified by August 1, 2022. The decision of the Selection Committee will be final.

Submissions should include a cover page with the paper’s title, the author’s full name, affiliation, and contact details. Award applicants should either: state that the paper is single-authored; or provide the name of the co-author(s), together with evidence that the applicant is the lead author and has contributed over 70 per cent of the paper’s content. The applicant should also affirm that they meet the Award’s age criterion.