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ERSA Monthly E-news - March 2025

ERSA Monthly news & updates

March Issue - 03/2025

In this issue you will find:

  • ERSA2025 Congress
  • Internal Communication
  • Journals news
  • Upcoming events
  • Publication
  • Vacancies

We wish you a good reading

#ERSA2025

Keynote Speakers

Programme Overview

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Internal Communication

2025 ERSA Prize in Regional Science Revealed

Professor Michael Storper is awarded

the ERSA European Prize in Regional Science 2025

ERSA and the Jury of the ERSA Prize Committee are pleased to announce that the ERSA Prize in Regional Science 2025 has been awarded to Professor Michael Storper. Prof. Storper is Centennial Professor of Economic Geography at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is also an affiliated scholar at the Centre de Sociologie des Organisations at Sciences-Po in Paris, as well as at the Department of Urban Planning in the School of Public Affairs at UCLA. He has also been recipient of various awards and scientific recognitions in Europe and in the US. His research expertise covers several fields including Cities and regions; Economic development; Economic geography; Globalization; Technological change. He published several seminal contributions in major peer-reviewed journals as well as authored various books. His scientific contributions have spread innovative ideas and deep insights on the effective strategies to develop metropolitan regions around the globe. Professor Storper is an active member of the regional science community, as organizer/co-organizer or member in the international advisory board of many high-quality scientific events, member of editorial board of regional science journals, etc. In 2022 he delivered a keynote speech at the opening ceremony of the 61st ERSA Congress in Pecs, Hungary.

 

The ERSA Prize in Regional Science 2025 will be delivered on 29 August during the Closing Session of 64th ERSA Congress (August 26-29 2025).

Call for Applications for the Positions of

Secretary, Treasurer, and Councilor at ERSA

Period for the submission for applications: 1 April – 31 May 2025.

Read the full announcement here.

Journals News

Global Challenges and Regional Science (GCRS)

"GCRS aims to strengthen the Regional Science community with a strong focus on contemporary challenges that our global society is facing"

Read the full Editorial here by Vicente Royuela, Balazs Lengyel, Sarah Low and Raquel Ortega-Argiles.

 

Check out the latest paper:

"The drivers of regional discontent in the EU"

Authors: Alexandra Sotiriou, George Petrakos, Stavroula Alexiou. more

Regional Science Policy & Practice (RSPP)

?Call for two prestigious RSAI Awards:

RSAI Fellows, deadline: 15 April 2025

Peter Nijkamp Award, deadline: 31 May 2025

 

New Issue: Volume 17, Issue 4, April 2025

more

Papers in Regional Science (PiRS)

Winner 2025 - Martin Beckmann Annual Award for the best paper published in Papers in Regional Science in 2024

 

Giorgio Fazio, Sara Maioli, Nirat Rujimora, "Building back greener, levelling-up or both? An assessment of the economic and environmental efficiency transition of UK regions",

Published in Papers in Regional Science, Volume 103, Issue 6, 2024, 100053. More details

Scienze Regionali – Italian Journal of Regional Science

New special issue on the Draghi Report, guest-edited by Roberta Capello:

"The future of European Competitiveness. Why a Special Issue in a Regional Science Journal?". more

Investigaciones Regionales – Journal of Regional Research

Special Issue 2025 - Issue 61 is now available!

See all articles here.

REGION

Just published in REGION:

"Do local attitudes change with the exposure and the status of the migrants?"

Authors: Bianca Biagi, University of Sassari and CRENoS (Italy), GSSI L’Aquila (Italy), Dionysia Lambiri, Athens Coordination Centre for Migrant and Refugees, Marta Meleddu, University of Sassari and CRENoS. more

Upcoming events

ERSA Summer School 2025

Sustainability, Innovation and Regional Development

29 June - 4 July 2025, Dresden, Germany

more

Italian Section: XLVI AISRe Annual Scientific Conference

Territorial Inequalities: Prospects for Regions and Cities

10-12 September 2025, Pescara, Italy

Deadline for application to AISRe Award “Young Author Best Paper”: 19 May 2025

more

 

Italian Section: Post-Doctoral Scholarship “Roberto Camagni” – 2nd Edition

Value: up to 15,000 €. 

Applications Deadline: 15 May 2025. more

Spanish Section: XLIX International Conference

Regional Economic Development (RED): In search of improving the Economic, Political and Social Welfare of each Region

15-17 October 2025, School of Business & Economics of the University of Navarra, Spain.

Call for Special Sessions deadline: 15 May 2025

Call for Submissions deadline: 13 June 2025

more

See all upcoming events

Publication

Resilience and the EU's Eastern Neighbourhood Countries

Crisis, Transformations and Policies

Editors:

Gilles Rouet, ISM-IAE de Versailles-St-Quentin-en-YvelinesLarequoi, Paris-Saclay University, Guyancourt, France

Gabriela Carmen Pascariu, Centre for European Studies, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Iaşi, Romania

Palgrave Macmillan Cham

More information from the publisher

Do you have publications to share?

Your are member of the RSAI-ERSA Community and you have recently published a book, grasp this opportunity to inform us about it. We are looking for

· Books published in 2025

· Preferably written in English 

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Vacancies 

  • Associate Professorship in Economic and Social History, Faculty of History and All Souls College, Oxford. Application deadline: 23 April 2025 12:00.
  • Senior Research Fellow/Reader, University of York. Application deadline: 26 May 2025.
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