ERSA - European Regional Science Association

CALL FOR PAPERS/POSTERS The 1st Nordic Winter Conference

CALL FOR PAPERS/POSTERS

The 1st Nordic Winter Conference of NS-RSA Regions: Sustainability, Growth, and Policy March 30th–April 1st, 2011 In the ski-resort Hemavan, Sweden

Initiated by The Nordic Section of European Regional Science Association (NS-RSA) Organised and funded by the ACANALYS project at CERUM (Centre for Regional Science), Umeå University.

IMPORTANT DATES

January, 24th: Preliminary registration of paper title and conference attendance February, 7th: Deadline for abstract submission February, 11th: Notification of acceptance March 30th–April 1st: Conference REGISTRATION AND FURTHER INFORMATION See Conference website: www.ersa.org/member-area/sections-88/nordic-section/, or www.cerum.umu.se. Information will be updated continuously.

Call for Book Chapters, April 7, 2011, from the National Education Association

A request for Book Chapters, relating to International Migration and National Identity

Further information can be found by contacting National Education Association or by contacting Richard Verdugo on Tel : 1-202-822-7453 or via email RVerdugo@nea.org

EIB-ERSA Prize Winner 2011

EIB-ERSA Prize in Regional Science 2011 awarded to Piet Rietveld

The 2011 European Investment Bank (EIB)-European Prize in Regional Science will be awarded to Piet Rietveld, Professor in transport economics at the Faculty of Economics, VU University, Amsterdam, for his contributions to among others transportation modeling, risk and cost benefit analysis and the role of transport infrastructure and amenities in a spatial economy.

Further information can be found HERE

CALL - Third Annual Conference London School of Economics, 12th-13th May 2011

Call for Papers from Postgraduate Research

At the Third Annual Conference, London School of Economics, UK, on the 12th-13th May 2011

The Spatial Economics Research Centre was launched in April 2008 to provide high quality independent research on why some regions, cities and communities prosper more than others and mobilise international expertise to enhance policy makers’ capacity to diagnose and tackle such differences.

One significant part of its mission is to contribute to capacity-building in this field by working and networking with young researchers. To pursue this aim, the Centre’s annual conference in May is held over two days, with the first half of the programme devoted to presentations based on current / recent PhD research, and the second to papers by SERC staff and affiliates, relating to the Centre’s own research.

If you require further information please contact Dr Gabriel Ahlfeldt [g.ahlfeldt@lse.ac.uk] or Prof. Henry G. Overman [h.g.overman@lse.ac.uk]

For more information about SERC see http://www.spatialeconomics.ac.uk.

Further information is available by clicking on the PDF below:

ERSA 2011 - Special Session - Territorial Governance, rural areas and local agro food systems

Please click on the the PDF document below, relating to the Special Session of Territorial Governance, rural areas and local agro food systems at the ERSA 2011 Congress in Barcelona.

This session is a long range one. It follows similar sessions held in ERSA Paris (2007), Liverpool (2008), Lodz (2009) and Jonkoping (2010). A collective book issued from this session is to be published on this topic (Torre A, Traversac J.B., 2011, Territorial Governance, Springer Verlag, Heidelberg & N. York), as well as a special issue of European Planning Studies. The goal is to gather researchers from various fields and various countries around the question of regional development and territorial governance in rural and peri-urban areas. The outcomes will be included in a new publication.

ERSA 2011 - Special Session - Turkish Cases

Please click on the the PDF document below, relating to the Special Session of Turkish Cases in Contemporary Issues/Dimensions for Regional Development at the ERSA 2011 Congress in Barcelona.

ERSA 2011 - Special Session - Cross Border Regions and Transport Accessibility  

CALL for abstracts/papers to be submitted through the ERSA link HERE

ERSA 2011 - Special Session on Cross Border Regions and Transport Accessibility

The  ‘Cross­Border  Regions’ in Europe represent spaces with a lot of diversified characteristics, concerning the number and variety of countries involved. These  regions face continuous changes in spatial and economical development, different  from the changes  occurring  in  the  core  regions  of  the  countries  implied.  Usually, cross border regions tend to be less developed.  Programs of cross­border cooperation, as the INTERREG, resulted in several  initiatives aiming to contribute for economic development in the related regions.   The transport infrastructures, and the accessibility they provide, are a factor that  may contribute significantly for regional development, namely in these areas. These regions benefited recently from some of these infrastructures, as a consequence of  public investments supported by Trans­European Networks (TEN­T) programs. There  are also other local development factors that can combine with cross­border  accessibility in order to increase trade and local development.  

ERSA 2011 - Special Session - Spin-offs and the diffusion of innovation and routines: a micro perspective

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Special Session on Spin-offs and the diffusion of innovation and routines: a micro perspective

Spin-off entrepreneurship continues to attract significant attention from scientists and policy makers alike. This is understandable as spin-off firms have an intrinsic advantage over other start-ups in that they have an embedded link to a parent company. Through this embedded link spin-off firms have an ‘easy’ access to resources for production which has interesting implications. Firstly, spin-off firms seem to outperform other entrants on at least some aspects of success including employment growth and survival chances.

Secondly, they play a key role in the development of clusters. Spin-off firms tend to locate close to the parent company and if a few spatially concentrated companies spawn many successful spin-offs an industry cluster may emerge (see, for example, the work by Steven Klepper, the 2011 recipient of the Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research).

Thirdly, spin-offs are thought to play an important role in the diffusion of knowledge to other firms leading to local, regional and national innovation and productivity growth. Most research and policy efforts about university spin-offs are inspired by this aspect of spin-off entrepreneurship.

ERSA 2011 - Special Session - Knowledge Commercialization and Valorization in Regional Economic Development: New Approaches and Concepts

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Special Session on Knowledge Commercialization and Valorization in Regional Economic Development: New Approaches and Concepts.

Scientific knowledge becomes increasingly important for innovation and new business development as technologies have grown more sophisticated and emerging industries have become more high-tech. Therefore, universities have become more important players in the process of invention, innovation, and commercialization. Academic knowledge commercialization is increasingly seen as a potential economic development model and a pattern of transformation towards a more entrepreneurial university is observed in many countries.

ERSA 2011 - Special Session - Cultural Diversity, Skills and Productivity: The labour market impacts of immigrants

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Special Session on Cultural Diversity, Skills and Productivity: The labour market impacts of immigrants

We are pleased to invite you to contribute with a research paper to a Special Session organized as a part of the 51st European Regional Science Association Conference (30th August – 3rd September 2011). The ERSA Conference takes place in Barcelona, Spain, and is a major international scientific event. This special session will have an interdisciplinary character and provide an opportunity for researchers to discuss their recent research. The contributors to this special session are encouraged to submit an abstract on the following topics:

• Migration theory and regional development
• Impact of immigrants on economic growth (Labour mobility and agglomeration,
• Heterogeneous skills and occupations (tasks) of immigrants, Cultural diversity and firm productivity, Immigrants and innovative sectors)
• Migration statistics and measuring cultural diversity

ERSA 2011 - Special Session - (Re)Location of Plants and Firms: New Insights

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Special Session on (Re)Location of Plants and Firms: New Insights

We intent to organise a Special Session at the 51st European Congress of the Regional Association International (to be held in Barcelona from August 30th to September 3rd 2011) under the title (Re)Location of Plants and Firms: New Insights. Both theoretical and empirical papers are welcome, particularly those who provide new insights on this topic by addressing issues related to:

• The methodology (modelling, theories, etc.).
• The effects of geographical (dis)aggregation.
• The evaluation of public policies.
• The robustness of results (across methods, institutional settings, etc.).

ERSA 2011 - Special Session - Regional Development and Service Activities

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Special Session on Regional Development and Service Activities

Objective and topics of the papers to be proposed:

This session will give the opportunity to discuss a wide number of aspects on the development of service industries and their contribution to regional development. Tertiarization is possibly the main process characterizing structural changes both at the country level and regional level.

Examples of topics: localization of service industries; the contribution of business services to regional development and the efficiency improvement; regional development and services; the impact of services liberalization at the EU level (new Directive on Services and its impact); Employment creation through services; services and productivity; structural changes and the role of services; new technologies and the services industries developments; nets of service industries and the regions; cities as ‘foyer’ of advanced services; the contribution of services to regional productive transformation; the territorial impact of some specific services, like tourism.

ERSA 2011 - Special Session - Productivity and Financing of Regional Infrastructure

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Special Session on Productivity and Financing of Regional Infrastructure

This special issues aims at combining the aspects of productivity and financing of regional transport infrastructure in research. There has been considerable discussion about the role of transport infrastructure in stimulating regional economic development.

While most research in this area has focused on aggregate growth effects, the role of transport investment in influencing the location of economic activity at the regional level is an important subject that has received much less attention. Recent studies also highlight the importance of agglomeration effects via increased accessibility when evaluating the productivity changes of transport improvements, thereby resulting in wider economic impact of transport investment than pure reductions in travel time.

On the other hand, there is growing concern about insufficient levels of governmental infrastructure funding and nowadays the private sector plays an important role in the design, finance, operation and maintenance of infrastructure – often in forms of Public Private Partnerships.

ERSA 2011 - Special Session - Computable General Equilibrium in Regional Science and Urban Economics

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Special Session on Computable General Equilibrium in Regional Science and Urban Economics

You are encouraged to submit a paper on the following subjects: 

• Development of Spatial CGE and other CGE approaches: dynamics, stochastics,  integrating CGE and discrete choice, urban land use, modeling models with  multiple equilibria, integrating New Economic Geography issues … 

• Applications to all kind of policies (taxes, regulations, transport, regional policy,  environmental and climate change issues, and others) 

ERSA 2011 - Special Session - Creativity and regional development

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Special Session on Creativity and regional development

Creativity  has  become  the  main  driving  forces  of  regional  (economic‐social‐cultural) development and also is gaining attention as a new engine of regional  economic growth. Besides, creativity plays an important role in the economic performance of a region and for competitiveness.  

As  a  part  of  51st  European  Congress  of  the Regional  Science  Association  International, Barcelona, special session on ‘Creativity and Regional Development’  will be organised. We encourage contributors to present their findings on the following topics:   

• Creative Clusters/Industries/Class and Regional Development 
• The Geography of Creative Clusters/Industries/Class 
• The Contribution of Creativity to Regional Development 

Summer School Luxembourg call is now CLOSED

The call to the Summer School Luxembourg is now CLOSED

Further information will be available soon!

Call is OPEN for the 24th Summer School

Call is now OPEN for participants to attend the 24th ERSA Summer School 2011.

MODELLING CITIES AND URBAN DYNAMICS

The European Regional Science Association is offering the opportunity to participate in the 24th ERSA Summer School that will be held July 4th - July 13th 2011 at the University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg. The event is funded by the European Investment Bank and the University of Luxembourg.

Deadline for the application is April 29th 2011.

Download the ERSA Summer School call poster HERE.

ERSA 2011 - Special Session - PROCESSES OF URBANISATION ALONG THE EUROPEAN COASTAL AREAS

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Special Session on PROCESSES OF URBANISATION ALONG THE EUROPEAN COASTAL AREAS

The question of controlling land consumption is one of the most important territorial challenges facing Europe today. The European Spatial Development Perspective (1999) made specific reference to the dangers deriving from uncontrolled urban sprawl.

Subsequent policy statements and studies coming from both the European Commission (EC) and the European Environment Agency (EEA) have continued to highlight the threats posed by a disperse form of urban development in general and have drawn special attention to the risks to coastal habitats in particular. According to the EEA almost half the population of countries with a sea border is located within coastal regions.

European Commission (JRC) - Research positions of "Economists/modellers"

The IPTS is the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission located in Seville (Spain). It offers the following research positions in the agro-food policy analysis group:

• International Trade and Market Analysis
• Economic Analysis of Agricultural and Resource Policy Scenarios
• Economic Analysis of Agricultural and Resource Policy Scenarios
• Economic Modelling and Policy Analysis (senior researcher)

Candidates with a strong interest in economic analysis of EU agricultural policies and international trade can find an exciting job involving research and policy-making. The positions offer many possibilities to network and participate in EU research projects, workshops and meetings.

The fellowships duration and the approximate net monthly salary are:

• category "Grant Holder 40" (senior researcher): two-year contract and EUR 5,000;

• category "Grant Holder 30": three-year contract and EUR 3,200.

Deadline for submission is 12 April 2011; applications for several positions are possible. More details can be found under http://ipts.jrc.ec.europa.eu/jobs/vacancies.cfm .

Nominations for the EIB-ERSA prize for the ERSA 2011 Congress, Barcelona

The committee for the EIB-ERSA prize is asking for nominations of candidates for the EIB-ERSA prize in ERSA 2011 Congress in Barcelona.

Eligible are ’living European regional scientists, who have made an outstanding contribution to the advancement of regional science’. Nominations can be made by every individual.

They should be made in an email to the president of the prize committee, Gunther Maier at the following email address of: <gunther.maier@wu.ac.at>, and should include a link to the CV of the nominated person.

The deadline for nominations is March 31st, 2011.

Call for Papers - Territoriality of the Commons: Spatial Perspectives on the Governance of Public

International Research Workshop, 29-30th September 2011 in Erkner, near Berlin, organised by the Department for “Institutional change and regional public goods” at the Leibniz-Institute for Regional Development and Structural Planning (IRS).

The purpose of the workshop is to explore the multiple, emergent geographies of the commons as a step towards developing a more systematic and fine-grained conceptualisation of the spatial dimensions to their governance. We aim to promote dialogue between historians, geographers and researchers across the social sciences and between three strands of research that we have identified as particularly relevant to the territoriality of the commons:

• 1. Action arenas as loci for organising regional commons
• 2. Rescaling the commons and the reordering of power geometries
• 3. Reconnecting the physical and social geographies of the commons.

We are pleased to announce the following distinguished scholars as keynote speakers at the Workshop:

• Matthew Gandy (University College London)
• Rainer Kuhlen (University of Konstanz)
• Frank van Laerhoven (Utrecht University)
• and Erik Swyngedouw (University of Manchester).

We invite proposals for papers or posters that engage with these three areas of research.

Please note that the deadline for submission of abstracts for papers or posters is April 1st 2011.

More detailed information on the Workshop’s research themes and organisational matters:

http://www.irs-net.de/download/aktuelles/CfP_Territoriality_Commons.pdf

Timothy Moss, Christoph Bernhardt, Andreas Roehring Leibniz-Institute for Regional Development and Structural Planning (IRS) Flakenstr. 28-31 15537 Erkner Germany Email to:commongoods@irs-net.de Or visit our website at: http://www.irs-net.de

The faculty of Architecture and Town Planning at the Technion, Israel

Invites applications for a tenure track position beginning October 1, 2011

Please find attached a PDF of the position

ERSA 2011 Call for abstract/papers - only 1 week remaining

CALL FOR ABSTACTS/PAPERS: ONLY ONE WEEK REMAINING

Your contribution is also essential to meet the new challenges set by the Congress theme.

Don’t miss the chance to share and enrich your knowledge with colleagues from across the world.

Submit your abstract/paper by the 4th of March 2011

BE PART OF IT!

New submission process:

The abstracts and papers to be reviewed (for R-sessions, Young Scientist Sessions and Special Sessions) must be submitted all together before the deadline of the 4th of March 2011.

The Scientific Committee will review the abstracts and the papers all together.

ERSA 2011 - Special Session - Understanding factors and processes underlying spatial dependence

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Special Session on Understanding factors and processes underlying spatial dependence.

Spatial economics applications today routinely examine the extent and pattern of spatial association (dependence) across economic variables. Despite this, the economic processes that underlie these associations tend to receive less attention, especially as concern is shifted towards the statistical properties of spatial dependence than on its substantive determinants. This special session invites papers that seek to explore exactly how observed patterns of spatial association reflect underlying economic processes and how/when the latter produce statistical associations in space. Both empirical/methodological and theoretical contributions are invited.

Invitation to submit proposals for organizing future ERSA Summer Schools and future European Congresses of the RSAI

Dear ERSAC members,

I am addressing you as representatives of ERSA sections with an invitation to put forward bids for organization of future ERSA Summer Schools from 2012 and onwards, and future European Congresses of RSAI from 2014 and onwards.

Should your section be interested in organizing future ERSA Congresses and/or Summer Schools, please submit your proposals by May 20th, 2011.

The general information on requirements as well as an open invitation is available on the main website of ERSA (www.ersa.org).

Please feel free to contact:

Richard Kelly (ERSA Executive Director, Email: richard.kelly@ersa.org)

Maciej Turala (Secretary of ERSA, Email: mturala@uni.lodz.pl)

or

myself Email: (charlie.karlsson@jibs.hj.se) for further information.

I look forward to seeing you all in Barcelona.

Charlie Karlsson

Professor and President of ERSA

Submission of abstracts/papers for the ERSA Congress 2011 is now CLOSED.

The submission of abstracts/papers for the ERSA Congress 2011 is now CLOSED.

If you have submitted an abstract/paper, you can still view your submission by logging in with your access key.

The 4th Summer Conference in Regional Science of the German Speaking Section (Gesellschaft für Regionalforschung)

The 4th Summer Conference in Regional Science, of the German Speaking Section (Gesellschaft für Regionalforschung) is about "Regional Economic and Labor Market Policies: Concepts, Results, and Challenges"

It will take place in Dresden, Germany on June 30 - July 1, 2011

Call for Papers please click HERE.

Keynote Speakers

• Geoffrey J.D. Hewings (University of Illinois)
• Joachim Möller (Universität Regensburg, IAB)

Note for Participants:

• The seminar is open for any scholar in the field. People interested in participating should notify the local organizer’s office.

• Participants of the Summer Conference are invited to submit papers on regional labor market policy to a special issue of the “Papers in Regional Science”, the journal of the Regional Science Association (RSAI). Another publication opportunity offered to the participants is the „Jahrbuch of Regionalwissenschaft/ Review of Regional Research“, the journal of the GfR, which is also interested in publishing papers of good quality from the Summer Conference.

Deadlines

• Submission of abstract: April, 30, 2011
• Notification of acceptance by May, 16, 2011
• Registration and submission of full paper until June, 20, 2011

Presentations should be about 30 min. The conference languages will be English and German.

Below is a PDF version for you to up load:

Kuhmo Nectar Conference and Summer School on Transportation Economics

CALL for papers for the Kuhmo Nectar Conference and Summer School on Transportation Economics 2011 will take place June 27- June 29 (Summer school) and June 30-July 1, 2011 (Conference) in Stockholm, Sweden.

The aim of the two-day conference is to promote scientific excellence in the field of transportation economics and to provide a forum for stimulating scientific exchange. The conference is accompanied by a summer school with a faculty comprising a range of the most prominent researchers in transportation economics. The summer school provides a condensed program giving an introduction to academic research in transportation economics including recent advances.

Visit our website for further information: http://www.kth.se/abe/centra/cts/kn2011?l=en_UK

Workshop - 8th April - Knowledge-creating Milieus: Firms, Cities, and Regions

Workshop on the April 8th 2011 Badoer, room A San Polo 2468, Venezia

It is a widely held opinion, also propounded in a number of academic works, that the main feature of the knowledge economy lies in the unprecedentedly wide use of knowledge that firms and industry in general have made in the last two-three decades....

Università Iuav di Venezia Unità di ricerca “Società Economia Territorio” Technische Universität Berlin Institut für Stadt–und Regional planung

in collaboration with Confindustria Veneto

Further information, please click HERE

Quantitative Analysis of Agricultural Policies - SUSTAG

The Agriculture and Life Sciences in the Economy Unit is looking for a senior researcher to work on the "Quantitative Analysis of Agricultural Policies" project in the SUSTAG Action (Sustainable Agriculture. The Socio Economic Dimension).

Contact:

• IPTS information point: jrc-ipts-recruitment@ec.europa.eu
• Responsible scientist: Mr. Jacques Delincé, jacques.delince@ec.europa.eu
• Info on SUSTAG Action: http://agrilife.jrc.ec.europa.eu/

Please click on the pdf for further information:

Agricultural Economics and Rural Development – Quantitative Analysis / Modelling impact of CAP policy instruments on regional / local economy and farming

The Agriculture and Life Sciences in the Economy Unit has a vacancy for a post-doctoral researcher to work on modelling the effects of Rural Development policy instruments in regional/local economies within the SUSTAG (sustainable agriculture) Action. This action is currently carrying out research on quantitative assessment of CAP impact on rural areas, both from the point of view of farm holdings and regional economy.

Contact:

• IPTS information point: jrc-ipts-recruitment@ec.europa.eu
• Responsible scientist: Mr. Jacques Delincé, jacques.delince@ec.europa.eu
• Info on SUSTAG Action: http://agrilife.jrc.ec.europa.eu/

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The Zurich Center for Computational Financial Economics (ZCCFE)

2011 Zurich Institute on Computational Economics (ZICE11) at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, from September 3 to September 11, 2011. ZICE11 will be a summer program for young scholars interested in applying computational methods to economics.

ZICE11 marks the first time, that a workshop similar to the highly successful summer programs (ICE07, …, ICE10) of the Chicago-Argonne Initiative for Computational Economics (www.ice.uchicago.edu) is held outside Chicago. ZICE11 has a similar format as the past ICE workshops with lectures and tutorials on topics in numerical analysis, their applications in economics, and their implementation in a variety of software tools. Participants will work on group assignments to facilitate the learning of numerical methods and will be able to speak with the lecturers about their own work during “office hours”.

The aim of ZICE11 is to create a collaborative community of computational scientists and economists by training young scholars (advanced graduate students and post-doctoral students) in state-of-the-art numerical methods and computer technology, and their application to economic modeling and analysis.

These sessions are presented by a mix of computational scientists and economists: Ken Judd, Felix Kubler, Todd Munson, Karl Schmedders and Che-Lin Su.

Further information can be found at http://www.zccfe.uzh.ch/ or by contacting Ruth Haefliger at the email ruth.haefliger@bf.uzh.ch

There will be no fee for participating in ZICE11. We will provide housing for participants at no charge. Participants are responsible for transportation costs and for their meals. ZICE11 is funded by the University of Zurich and NCCR FinRisk.

The NIPE (Economic Policies Research Unit), Summer School 2011

The NIPE (Economic Policies Research Unit) is pleased to announce its 8th Summer School on “Duration Analysis”.

The course will be taught by Nicholas M. Kiefer (Cornell University), at the University of Minho, School of Economics and Management, Braga, Portugal, from June 29th to July 1st, 2011.

The purpose of the course is to provide graduate students and applied researchers with a comprehensive coverage of statistical methods and their application in the econometric analysis of duration analysis.

Applications should arrive no later than April 15th, 2011.

For more information about the Summer School 2011, please follow the link: http://www3.eeg.uminho.pt/economia/nipe/summerschool2011/

European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES) in Bruxelles on Friday May 6, 2011

The third Belgian Trade Workshop will take place at the European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES) in Bruxelles on Friday May 6, 2011.

The preliminary program is available on-line at http://homepages.ulb.ac.be/ mzanardi/BTWprogram.pdf

Attendance at the workshop is free but a registration is required for organizational purposes.

Please email Nancy De Munck email ndemunck@ulb.ac.be before April 29 if you plan to attend.

International Transport Forum 2011 25-27 May, Leipzig, Germany - Transport for Society

REGISTER NOW!

The International Transport Forum’s 2011 summit on Transport for Society will take place in Leipzig, Germany, on 25-27 May. Consult the preliminary programme and register now at www.internationaltransportforum.org/2011.

The International Transport Forum at the OECD is a strategic think tank for the transport sector. Its annual summit brings together ministers from over 50 countries, along with leading decision-makers and actors from the private sector, representatives of civil society and research, to debate transport issues of strategic importance.

In 2011, the summit will examine how the net benefits of transport for individuals and communities can be increased and the sector’s contribution to sustainable growth ensured.

the 1st "Rencontres Internationales de Reims" in Sustainability Studies will be held on June 22-23, 201

the 1st "Rencontres Internationales de Reims" in Sustainability Studies will be held on June 22-23, 2011 at the University of Reims.

Further details go to:http://www.univ-reims.fr/

Jane Jacobs and paradigm shifts in urban planning and urban redevelopment

Jane Jacobs and paradigm shifts in urban planning and urban redevelopment

Dates / Venue: May 12/13, 2011 Location: Hamburg: hamburgmuseum Holstenwall 24

Language: English

In cooperation with:

Working group Planning History in GSU, GSU – Gesellschaft für Stadt- und Urbanisierungsforschung e.V. http://www.gsu.tu-darmstadt.de/

International Planning History Society: http://www.planninghistory.org/

BDA Hamburg: http://www.bda-hamburg.de/h/

The 2011 UK/Ireland Planning Research Conference - Special Session: “Potentials and challenges of temporary land uses”

The 2011 UK/Ireland Planning Research Conference - Special Session: “Potentials and challenges of temporary land uses”

For more information please visit:http://www.curs.bham.ac.uk/planning-research- conference-2011/land-use.shtml

CHANGE for STABILITY: LIFECYCLES OF CITIES AND REGIONS

The role and possibilities of foresighted planning in transformation processes is the core topic of REAL CORP 2011 -16th International Conference on Urban Planning, Regional Development and Information Society,

May 18-20 2011, SANAA Building, Zollverein World Heritage Site, Essen / North Rhine - Westphalia / Germany www.corp.at

ERSA 2011 - Special Session Air Transport and Local Development

ERSA 2011 - Special Session - Air Transport and Local Development

Please click on the the PDF document below, relating to the Special Session of Air Transport and Local Development at the ERSA 2011 Congress in Barcelona.

WRSA President, Tony Bailly, has been awarded the Vautrin Lud International Geography Prize

ANTOINE BAILLY: LAUREATE OF THE VAUTRIN LUD INTERNATIONAL GEOGRAPHY PRIZE 2011

Please join us in congratulating Tony on this well deserved recognition of his lifetime achievements!

Established in 1991 the Vautrin Lud International Geography Prize is the highest award that can be gained in the field of geography. The award is modelled on the Nobel Prize and is called the “Nobel Prize for Geography”. It is named after the 16th century French scholar Vautrin Lud who is credited with naming the new world “America”.

The nomination is done by an international jury who chooses, among proposals given by world specialists, a high level geographer who gave a significant contribution to the evolution of geography. Among the past laureates, Sir Peter Hall (2001), Brian Berry (2005), Mike Goodchild (2007), Peter Haggett (1991), David Harvey (1995). The prize will be given on October 6, 2011, at the International Festival of Geography (Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, France).

Geographer, specialist in regional science, medicometry and regional development. Doctor Homoris Causa of the universities of Quebec, of the Hungarian Science Academy and of the University of Lisbon, Antoine Bailly received in 2008 the Founder’s medal, the highest distinction in regional science. Emeritus of the University of Geneva, holder of the agregation in geography and state doctor, Antoine Bailly has studied and taught in North America, Portugal, France and Switzerland. He has been invited to over forty universities spanning the five continents.

Antoine Bailly is the author of 30 works on regional science, human geography and health politics. He chaired the scientific committee of the International Festival of Geography (Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, France) from 1993 to 1999. He currently chairs the Health Forum in Switzerland as well as the program For and On regional development of the INRA in France.

For more details:

www.antoinebailly.com

ERSA 2011 - Post Tour - Montjuic and Camp Nou Tour

The Barcelona Local Organising Committee has made the selection of Montjuic and Camp Nou Tour for the Post-Congress Tours & Accompanying Persons Program.

Please click on the PDF file for further information on this tour.

Summer School Luxembourg extended CALL

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that the call for participants has been extended until the 15th of May, for the 2011 Summer School of the European Regional Science Association (ERSA), to be held at the University of Luxembourg, 4-13 July 2011.

Program details and registration at http://www.ersa.org/summer-school/

The goal of the 24th ERSA Summer School is to provide PhD-students and young researchers with advanced training in the field of urban modeling and particularly urban dynamics. In addition it is aimed at being an interactions platform where young researchers can extensively present and discuss their own research with other young researchers and with more senior academics in the field.

The Summer School is dedicated to a group of maximum 30 phD students and young researchers from all over Europe or beyond. Modelling Cities and Urban Dynamics.

Urbanisation processes will be the thematic focus of the Summer School. Particular attention will be paid to the temporal dimension and the dynamics of urban patterns formation. The lectures will be revolving around the following items: urban sprawl, urban and periurban land use change, urban patterns formation, self-organisation of cities and networks of cities, emergence of sub-centres/edge-cities, cumulative effects, urbanisation and travel patterns, mitigation policies. Emphasis will be set on models and empirical work thatdraw links with urban economic theory, economic geography, complex systems,agent-based simulations, or embed innovative spatial data analysis techniques.

The program includes lectures by Jan Brueckner (Irvine, California), Pierre Frankhauser (Besançon, France) Jean-Claude Thill (Charlotte, North Carolina), Jacques Thisse (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium)

The 24th ERSA Summer School is a joint organisation with the Geography and Spatial Planning Research Centre (Geoffrey Caruso) and the Center for Research in Economic Analysis (Luisito Bertinelli) of the University of Luxembourg.

The Summer School is sponsored by the European Investment Bank and the University of Luxembourg.

Geoffrey Caruso, Luisito Bertinelli

University of Luxembourg

Small Business Economics titled "Entrepreneurial Dynamics and Regional Growth."

Volume 36, Number 4 / May 2011

Release of a special issue of Small Business Economics titled "Entrepreneurial Dynamics and Regional Growth." in the Volume 36, Number 4 / May 2011.

Most contributions in this issue are selected papers presented at a special session on "Entrepreneurship & the Region" at the joint ASRDLF ERSA conference, Paris, August 2007.

The guest editors for this issue are Marcus Dejardin (FUNDP-University of Namur and Université Catholique de Louvain) and Michael Fritsch (Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena).

Details can be accessed from SBE website at Springer:

Conference on Sustainable Growth organized by Raouf Boucekkine on May 19-20

Conference on Sustainable Growth organized by Raouf Boucekkine on May 19-20, in LLN, Belgium.

Please find below the final program.

Attendance is free but registration is compulsory.

You can register by contacting Carmen Camacho via email

PostDoc vacancy Spatial analysis and resources management

Application

Applicants are requested to write a letter in which they describe their motivation for applying, together with a 2-page outline proposal for carrying out the research within the theme described in this advertisement.

Please also send a curriculum vitae and the names of two referees.

Written applications should be sent before 1st June 2011 to: the VU University Amsterdam, Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, attn. Prof. Dr. B. Oudega, dean, de Boelelaan 1085, 1081HV Amsterdam,The Netherlands.

It is also possible to apply by e-mail to: falw-vacatures@falw.vu.nl.

Please mention the vacancy number in the e-mail header or at the top of your letter and on the envelope.

Information

For additional information please contact: Prof Dr. ir. Peter Verburg

Phone number +31 (0)20 59 83594 E-mail: peter.verburg@ivm.vu.nl, or Professor Dr Piet Rietveld, 31 (0)20 59 86097 E-mail: p.rietveld@vu.nl

PhD student position in the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI)

An announcement for a PhD student position in the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI) shared with the Helsinki University Environmental Centre (HENVI).

The theme area is cross-cutting: urban (economic) resilience - ecosystem services - climate change.

Candidates are requested to send an application letter plus a CV by e-mail, while using the e-mail heading: PHD-FMI-HENVI,

to kirjaamo@fmi.fi, and c.c. to adriaan.perrels@fmi.fi and kaisa.korhonen@helsinki.fi.

The deadline for applications is 23-5-2011 at 15:45 UTC.

Further inquiries:

• HENVI: Dr. Kaisa Korhonen, research co-ordinator, kaisa.korhonen@helsinki.fi Tel + 358 400 624 289

• FMI: Dr. Adriaan Perrels, research professor, adriaan.perrels@fmi.fi, Tel +358 50 5838575

• ENSURE: Dr. Susanna Lehvävirta, university researcher, susanna.lehvavirta@helsinki.fi, Tel + 358 50 5762952

Please see below pdf file for further information.

ERSA 2011 - Post Tour - Stories and Legends Of The Gothic Quarter

The Barcelona Local Organising Committee has made the selection of Stories and Legends Of The Gothic Quarter tour for the Post-Congress Tours & Accompanying Persons Program.

Please click on the PDF file for further information on this tour.

ERSA 2011 - Post Tour - Gaudí Tour

The Barcelona Local Organising Committee has made the selection of Gaudí Tour for the Post-Congress Tours & Accompanying Persons Program.

Please click on the PDF file for further information on this tour.

ERSA 2011 - Post Tour - BCN Contemporary Architecture Tour

The Barcelona Local Organising Committee has made the selection of BCN Contemporary Architecture Tour for the Post-Congress Tours & Accompanying Persons Program.

Please click on the PDF file for further information on this tour.

ERSA 2011 - Post Tour - Montserrat and Sitges Tour

The Barcelona Local Organising Committee has made the selection of Montserrat and Sitges Tour for the Post-Congress Tours & Accompanying Persons Program.

Please click on the PDF file for further information on this tour.

ERSA 2011 - Post Tour - Girona and Figueres Tour

The Barcelona Local Organising Committee has made the selection of Girona and Figueres Tour for the Post-Congress Tours & Accompanying Persons Program.

Please click on the PDF file for further information on this tour.

View Your Submission for ERSA 2011 Congress

Dear Congress Participant,

If you wish to view your result of submission online, please go to the Congress Participant Area. And enter your Access KEY.

PLEASE NOTE: Due to some technical issues, the online registration will be available by the end of this week. Thank you for your patience.

Richard KELLY

Executive Director

UNIMED General Assembly - July 7 - July 9, 2011.

Lecce (Italy) is the site for the UNIMED General Assembly, the gathering of all UNIMED associated Universities’ rectors and their delegates, the UNIMED focal points, the persons in charge of the International Relations offices and of the International Project Management offices, beginning from Thursday, July 7 through Saturday, July 9, 2011.

For any kind of information regarding the General Assembly and to confirm your participation you can contact our Secretariat at this address e-mail: unimed@uni-med.net

Registration is ONLINE for the ERSA 2011 Barcelona Congress

ERSA 2011 Barcelona Congress Registration is OPEN

For the 51st European Congress of the Regional Science Association International, the Local Organising Committee has decided to introduce a Lower Fee policy which is here.

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 A series of Technical Visits (6) have been organised on 1st of September. Places for each technical visit are limited. Pre-registration is highly recommended and confirmation onsite by the 30th August is requested. For further details on the technical visits and to pre-register click HERE

 Accompanying persons’ tours and Post-Congress tours are also organised by the Local Organising Committee. For further details and to reserve the tour(s) of your choice click HERE

 Hotel Accommodation - Specially discounted rates have been negotiated for delegates in a wide range of conveniently located hotels. For more details on the hotels’ list and for making a reservation, click HERE

Feel free to call us on + 32 10 47 43 62 or email info@ersa.org for any further information you may need.

We are looking forward to meeting you in Barcelona during the Congress.

Yours sincerely,

ERSA Office

on behalf of the Barcelona Local Organising Committee

CALL for PAPERS: International Conference of the International Geographical Union (IGU)

Commission: C08.14 – Global Information Society

CALL FOR PAPERS

‘Heritage, Planning and e-Participation: The Evolving Forms of Information Society’ July 3-6, 2011, National Technical University of Athens

What better location than Athens to discuss the relationship between ICT and society, with special emphasis on participation, tradition, and the future?

Papers on a wide range of topics associated with the spatial context, policies, and influence of ICT are welcome. As usual, the primary themes of the conference are not meant to limit participation. Papers on all aspects and dimensions of the geographies of the information society and telecommunications are welcome. Of particular interest are papers on the following themes:

Conference Themes
  The role of ICT in Mediterranean democratic movements (with the Mediterranean Renaissance Project)
  eParticipation in planning and development
  Social networks
  Information technology, culture and heritage
  Impact of ICT on urban and regional planning and management
  The role of ICT in creating sustainable and climate resilient cities

Abstracts

Abstracts should not exceed 200 words, and should be sent electronically to Mark Wilson wilsonmm@msu.edu

Deadline for abstract submission

The deadline for abstract submissions is May 31, 2011, but we offer a fast track acceptance system that confirms participation within several weeks of receiving an abstract. This will provide early written confirmation of paper acceptance and allow time to seek funding or make travel arrangements.

The conference chair is Maria Giaoutzi - National Technical University of Athens, in collaboration with the Commission on Global Information Society - Mark Wilson, Michigan State University, and the Mediterranean Renaissance Project - Maria Paradiso, University of Sannio.

For more information please visit: www.digitalcommunities.info

CALL FOR PAPERS - University of Manchester Conference Centre Manchester, UK

Thursday 3rd November 2011

Localism: Sufficient and fit for purpose?

To Register and submit an abstract: Please click on this link or copy and paste into your browser https://eiemea.certain.com/rsa/getdemo.ei?id=1010023&s=_50K0YSW2F

Conference Objectives

Localism and regionalism tend to be seen as conflicting and competing conceptions of territorial organisation. Indeed, there are well rehearsed, albeit evolving, debates which engage with the theoretical and policy architectures underpinning regionalism and localism. These two forms of territorial organisation have their origins in different schools of thought, underpinned by fundamentally different ideals around the structure and role of both government and governance in territorial management, the scales at which these functions are most effectively operationalised and how they relate to each other. The current debates in the UK on Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPS) illustrate this.

Further information at:

www.regional-studies-assoc.ac.uk

CALL - 2011 Asia Pacific Cities Summit (APCS)

from Wednesday 6 to Friday 8 July 2011.

The countdown is on to when the world converges on Brisbane for the 8th Asia Pacific Cities Summit (APCS). Don’t miss this exciting opportunity – register now!

Go here to register for the 2011 APCS

Download the 2011 APCS program and registration brochure

Register as a delegate and be in the draw to win an iPad 2. The lucky winner will be drawn on the final day of the Summit, Friday 8 July 2011.

Due to other major events taking place in Brisbane during the Summit and high occupancy rates at hotels, delegates are encouraged to book their accommodation soon.

Call for Chapters - International Migration and National Identity

Call for Chapters on International Migration and National Identity.

Richard R. Verdugo has an agreement with Springer Publications to edit a volume on International Migration and National Identity.

The deadline for first drafts is September 1, 2011.

Many countries are experiencing increases in their immigrant populations, and their presence creates diversity in countries where ethnic-racial diversity is a new phenomenon, and it has started national debates about national identity among the native-born.

The proposed edited book hopes to gather research on this phenomenon from various countries. We are particularly interested in hearing from scholars from Western European countries such as Spain, Portugal, Italy, France, Germany, Greece, Sweden, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Norway, Finland, etc.

Send a letter of interest to Richard R. Verdugo, RVerdugo@nea.org

post-doctoral fellowship starting in January 2012

The University of Saint-Etienne, member of University of Lyon, research group GATE-LSE.

Candidates: The candidates should have obtained their PhD in Economics between September 2007 and September 2011, preferably in the field of Economics of Innovation and Spatial Economics.

Duration: one year

Gross salary per year: 28.000ˆ

No teaching involved

The deadline for applications has been extended to June, 17, 2011. They should include:

(1) A curriculum vitae.

(2) A 2 pages research project.

(3) And the names of two professors willing to send a reference letter addressed to autant@univ-st-etienne.fr

Candidates must contact GATE-LSE.

Also, applications should be sent by email to the following address autant@univ-st-etienne.fr.

Only a few days left for the Lower fee registration

To the ERSA Congress 2011

Prof. Vicente Royuela LOC Coordinator for the ERSA Congress 2011

LAST day to benefit for the LOWER registration fee

To the ERSA Congress 2011 in Barcelona

This is the last day to register for the LOWER FEE, to the ERSA Congress in Barcelona.

Se you there!

Richard KELLY Executive Director of ERSA

EuroLIO European Seminar: Geography of Innovation 2012

26-28 January 2012

The goal of the seminar is in two fold. First, from an academic point of view, it will gather the European scientific community working on the geography of innovation.

The second part, is from a more applied perspective, the seminar intends to bring together researchers, data producers and public actors in innovation in order to discuss the specific issues related to localized indicators of innovation and territorial public policies.

Link to the website is:http://www.eurolio.eu

For further information please email to :

EuroSeminar2012@eurolio.eu

SPECIAL SESSION in Regional Economics and Economic Geograph

INFER Annual Conference in London (September 12-13, 2011)

The topics that can be addressed during the special session in Regional Economics and Economic Geography are the following:
 location choices
 spatial tax competition
 growth and its spatial implications
 institutions, innovation and regional development
 human capital, knowledge flows and regional competitiveness
 clusters and regional policies
 dynamics of urban and regional development
 spatial implications for the labour market
 geography’s impact on international trade
 proximity, organizing industrial spaces
 regional inequalities

Full papers that deal with one or several of the above topics are welcome and should be sent by JULY 1 at the following email addresses: camelia.turcu@univ-orleans.fr usc@fiwi.rwth-aachen.de

Please also note that one of the keynote speakers at this year INFER Annual Conference will be from the field of regional economics: Paul CHESHIRE (LSE) accepted our invitation to deliver a keynote speech! More information on: http://www2.lse.ac.uk/researchAndExpertise/Experts/p.cheshire@lse.ac.uk

Details on the conference can be found at: http://www.infer-research.net/conferece_details.php?id=7&id_conf=60

COST Strategic Workshop "Safeguard of Cultural Heritage: A Challenge from the Past for the Europe of Tomorrow"

From the 11th, 12th, 13th July 2011

Cultural Heritage is formed by all material and immaterial evidence of the cultural identity of a population. Within this definition, in Europe like in any other part of the world, many values determine a complex relationship between objects, symbols, personal and collective identities.

The COST workshop aims:

• To highlight the scientific research being carried out in Europe in the field of Cultural Heritage;
• To present results and ongoing activities of COST Actions dealing with Cultural Heritage;
• To suggest strategic guidelines along which future research in the field of Cultural Heritage is likely to develop and should be oriented.

The event will be organized as follows:

• Introductive general session;
• More technical thematic sessions aiming towards the preparation of synthetic final documents containing proposals;
• Poster session(s).

Further information can be found on the website at www.cost.esf.org/events/Cultural-Heritage

Or to contact antje.teegler@cost.eu

Poster Competition, 11th-13th October 2011, Brussels

European Week of Regions and Cities

The Directorate-General for Regional Policy, European Commission, is currently calling for expressions of interest in the form of a word abstract (max 1.000 words) to enter a high profile poster competition.

The Competition is open to both PhD students and early career researchers (3 years into work following education) working on European regional policy.

The finalists will be invited and funded to present their work at the October Open Days event in Brussels which sees over 6.000 European policy makers and practitioners come together to share best practice.

There are prizes for the two first placed pieces of work and these will be presented by Veronica Gaffey, Head of Evaluation Unit at DG Regional Policy.

Abstracts are welcomed on all related work, you can find the Competition call for papers and guidelines at the following links:

Call for papers

Guidelines

The Traffic Management & Bus Priority Conference

19th – 20th July 2011 Liverpool, UK

PTRC’s 3rd Annual Traffic Management & Bus Priority Conference will take place on 19th - 20th July 2011 in one of Britain’s most vibrant and exciting cities for transport professionals - Liverpool.

Featuring…

Topics such as Network Efficiency, Public Realm, Bus Priority and more Keynote presentation from Norman Baker MP Technical visits Workshop session on Cycle Hubs and Debate session – Championing the Bus

The Traffic Management & Bus Priority Conference is aimed at traffic management engineers and technicians drawn from Governments, Agencies, local authorities and those companies that advise them.

Further information at https://www.conferencebookings.co.uk/delegate/TMPPTRC2011

Department of Economics at the University of Zurich

PostDoctoral Researcher Position

At the Department of Economics at the University of Zurich, the group "Macroeconomics and Labor Markets" is looking for a postdoctoral researcher in one of the following areas:

• Labor economics (empirical)
• International trade
• Growth/development

ABOUT THE DEPARTMENT: The Department of Economics at the University of Zurich is regularly ranked as the top department in German speaking countries and among one of the top departments in Europe. With its strong focus on high quality research and with more than 20 full professorships in all fields of economics, more than 30 postdocs and assistant professors and about 60 Ph.D. students it offers a vibrant and stimulating environment for a postdoctoral researcher.

JOB DESCRIPTION: The position is strongly research oriented with very limited organizational duties and teaching obligation. We offer a very competitive remuneration package with generous funding of research related activities (conference visits, data etc.).

JOB QUALIFICATIONS: A completed or about to be completed Ph.D. in Economics; research interest in labor/trade/growth/development - applied theory and/or empirical. Applicants are expected to develop a strong research record aiming at publications in international top journals.