Dear colleague,

We are pleased to announce that we host the special track session “Why bother about culture in SMEs and micro firms? Innovation, culture and entrepreneurial dynamics in regional development”at IFKAD 2015 International Forum on Knowledge Asset Dynamics, forthcoming in Bari (Italy) on 10-12 June 2015.

We warmly invite you and other colleagues within your network to submit your abstract before January 25th for this track following the online submission requierements. Please find attached additional information in the corresponding track flyer.

The papers will be published in one of the journals arranged by the organizers of IFKAD (subject to evaluation criteria). We are also arranging a special issue on “Culture and innovation in SMEs and micro firms” with the journal European Planning Studies. The call for papers will be circulated in advance among the participating authors in the track session.

More information about the conference can be seen at: http://www.ifkad.org/

Important deadlines:

• 25 January 2015 - Abstracts Submission Deadline

• 28 February 2015 - Acceptance notification to authors

• 25 March 2015 - Early-Bird registration deadline

• 20 April 2015 - Full paper submission deadline

• 20 May 2015 - Registration deadline

• 10-12 June 2015 - Conference sessions

Looking forward to receive your abstract for participation in IFKAD 2015 and to meet in Bari next June, 

Kind regards,

Manuel Fernández-Esquinas

Institute for Advanced Social Studies, Spain

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+34 957770528

Madelon van Oostrom

Tenerife Science and Technology Park, Spain

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+34 822028588

Hugo Pinto

University of Coimbra, Portugal

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+ 351239790500

Romanian Section

From 8 to 9 May 2015

Suceava, Romania

10th International Conference with the topic "Regional Development and “Europe 2020”

Further details please go to the website of the Romanian Section - www.rrsa.ro

French Speaking Section

Wednesday 25 March 2015

Paris University Dauphine

Call for papers for the real estate seminar (one of the partners is our review of regional and urban economics ) , to be held March 25, 2015.

Proposals should be sent before February 15, 2015, to the email of This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Turkish Section

From 18 to 19 December

Istanbul Technical University in Istanbul

National Regional Science / Regional Planning Congress "Emerging Economies and Regional Policy: Turkey agenda. Further information at http://bbtmk.itu.edu.tr/ıcerik.a...

The European Regional Science Association & the European Real Estate Society are offering the opportunity to participate in the 28th ERSA & ERES Summer School that will be held from 5th July to 15th July, 2015 in Vienna, Austria.

Click HERE for further information

Call for Papers:

45th Winter Seminar of the Regional Science Association on the 22nd - 28th February 2015 at Igls / Innsbruck

Abstract submission deadline 12/12/2014

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More information

The Graduate School in Population Dynamics and Public Policy announces posts for PhD students

Background

The Graduate School in Population Dynamics and Public Policy is a graduate program for PhD students with dissertation projects focusing on population dynamics and/or public policy related to population changes and ageing. The school is part of the interdisciplinary research programme Ageing and Living Conditions (ALC) which has been judged one of the strongest Swedish research environments by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet). The school is funded by the Swedish Research Council until June 2016 and focus on PhD students active within economics, ethnology, social and economic geography, epidemiology and public health sciences, psychology, statistics, history, history of ideas, or historical demography. Our aims are to provide PhD students with the best possible conditions in which to profit from high quality education and to enable internationally competitive research. The school actively promotes multinational interaction by encouraging our students to participate in international conferences, workshops and PhD courses at other universities. The school stimulates and substantially improves the opportunities for students to build their own networks at an early stage in their careers.

More information about the aim and focus of the school and ALC can be found at our website http://www.ddb.umu.se/cbs/alc/ and

http://www.ddb.umu.se/cbs/forskarskolan-i-befolkningsdynamik-och-offentlig-politik/.

Who is qualified to apply?

Qualified for applying to the school are already accepted PhD students in either of the above mentioned, or related, subjects. The school does not fund any positions. Applicants must already have financing of doctoral studies secured by their home department. Welcomed to apply are recently accepted PhD students as well as students closer to graduation. The applicant’s research must be within the field of knowledge represented by the school which means that the applicant’s thesis should address social, economic, cultural, ethnical, gendered or medical processes related to such demographic structures as e.g. the labor market, aging, migration, family formation, fertility and health and related public policy. It includes studies in advanced data analysis with applications to various aspects of demographic structure and policy. PhD students with an interest in analysis based on register data are a priority.

What does the school offer me as a PhD student?

Students within the school are offered

• access to outstanding Swedish register data (the Linnaeus database)
• financial support for spending one semester or one academic year at another university
• financial support for conferences, to attend relevant courses and work-shops,
• financial support for temporary and informal visit’s to other universities,
• participation in an interdisciplinary and internationally oriented research environment
• to participate and follow an introduction course on different research topics within the ALC environment
• to attend the schools and ALC seminars
• PhD students at Umeå University are with financial support from the school obligated to spend one semester or one academic year at another university. (Where and when will be decided on by the student’s supervisor and the schools director.)
• PhD students not at Umeå University are with financial support from the school obligated to spend one semester or a whole academic year at the ALC environment at Umeå University

What are my duties as a PhD student?

Assessment criteria’s

PhD students with an interest in analysis of register data are a priority.

The application must include the following:

1. A brief description of the applicant’s research project as well as a CV, in which finished papers, articles and chapters are listed, and completed courses within the doctoral program are clearly stated. The CV must be attested by supervisor or head of the doctoral program at the home department.

2. A financial plan stating how studies up to the dissertation and PhD exam will be financed, e.g. by documenting a fully funded position as graduate student “Doktorandtjänst” or research assistant at a university.

3. A certificate, written by either the head of the department or the head of the department’s doctoral program, verifying both that the applicant is registered as a PhD-student at the department and that the department approves of the student applying to the school (electronic signature is sufficient). Neither party is obliged to any commitments by this procedure. A preliminary admission to the school will be followed by a formal agreement between the school and the student’s home department.

Electronic application, in word or pdf, should be sent to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (state application graduate school as subject) no later than 2015-01-15. Applications can also be sent to Johan Lundberg, Department of Economics, Umeå University, 901 87 Umeå to arrive 2015-01-15 at the latest. For further information, please contact the director Johan Lundberg, phone +46 (0)90-786 9540 or e-mail This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

We look forward to receiving your application!

Dear Colleagues & Friends,

Call for Abstract submission!

2015 Uddevalla Symposium on: “Regional development in an international context - Regional, national, cross border and international factors for growth and development”
June 11-13, 2015,
Sönderborg, Denmark.
www.symposium.hv.se

We invite you to submit an abstract within this theme or within a subtheme (see attached CFP) and meet with more than hundreds of scholars next June in the southern part of Denmark. We can proudly present the host of the 18^th Uddevalla Symposium 2015 - University of Southern Denmark, campus Sönderborg! We are really looking forward moving the Uddevalla Symposium to Denmark!

Deadline for Abstract submission is January 16^th, 2015.(less than two months ahead)

We are also very proud of presenting our invited Key-note speakers:

Prof. Cristiano Antonelli, University of Torino, Italy
Dr. Georgeanne M. Artz, Iowa State University, USA

Prof. Dan Breznitz,  University of Toronto, Canada
Prof. Johannes Bröcker,  Christian-Alberchts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany

Prof. Cristina Chaminade, CIRCLE, Lund University, Sweden

Prof. Yvonne von Friedrichs, Mid Sweden University, Sweden

Prof. Henrik Halkier,  Aalborg University, Denmark
Prof. Simona Iammarino, London School of Economics, UK

Prof. Franz W. Kellermanns, University of North Carolina – Charlotte, USA

Prof. Ram Mudambi, Temple University, USA

Prof. André Torre, National Institute for Agronomic Research, Paris, France

Best regards,

Iréne Bernhard

On behalf of the organizing committee