Dear ERSA Members,
Dear Colleagues,
Professor Igor Gorlinskii (St Petersburg State University) and Professor Gleb Fetissov (SOPS) as co-chairs of ERSA 2014 Local Organising Committee are proud and happy to invite the International Regional Science Community to St Petersburg.
The Congress will be dedicated to the memory of Academician Alexander Granberg.
We're excited to announce the launch of the
Don't miss this chance to be part of next year's regional science momentum!
Best regards
Richard Kelly
ERSA Executive Director
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Main Congress Features
The 2014 Congress will feature "benchmarking issues in regional policy and planning as well as Arctic issues in the regional development".
The Local Organising Committee has also the ambition to "put forward European regional science on new intellectual territories".
And also "promote further deeper integration Russian Regional Science and scholars into the family of European regional scholars".
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Call: Abstracts and Papers
We're excited to announce the launch of the CALL for abstracts / papers, to the ERSA Congress 2014 in St Petersburg .
The Scientific Committee will review the abstracts and the papers all together at the same time.
For more details on the guidelines for the different types of Submissions,
please click
Deadline: 28th February 2014
Call: Special Session proposals
The Local Organising Committee would like to give you the opportunity to make a proposal for a Special Session Topic.
You can choose one topic from the list of Special Session Topics or propose another topic. The Local Organising Committee is particularly interested in receiving proposals on:
- Cooperation of the regions and cities
- Best practices for regional and urban development
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Preliminary Programme Highlights
* The Local Organising committee is proud to announce the participation of Keynote Speakers including Susan Christopherson, Philip Cooke , Kevin Stolarick, Michael Storper and Natalya Zubarevich
* This 2014 edition will once again benefit from the contribution of the Urban Economics Association which will once again organise its Special Sessions at the ERSA Congress.
*Young Scientists sessions 2014
Are you an ambitious young scientist that wants a good platform to present ideas and results and looks forward to receive comments from the best scholars in Regional Science? Then you should submit your paper to the ERSA Epainos sessions!
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As you know the EIB-ERSA Prize in Regional Science has been created to recognise outstanding contributions of scholar to the advancement of science at the European level.
The European Investment Bank - Institute has increased its contribution for this prize, to 10,000 Euros for the winner, at this years' Congress.
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