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European Regional Science Association Newsletter
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Issue 37   January 2009
Message from Charlie Karlsson - President of ERSA
 
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Dear ERSA members,
At the outset, I must say that I am deeply honoured to be the new president of ERSA. I am very much looking forward to cooperating with you, the sections, EOC, ERSAC and the ERSA secretariat in Louvain-la-Neuve to further develop the interests of ERSA. ERSA has developed very positively in the last two decades and it is my hope that we together will be able to further strengthen ERSA in the coming years. Under the presidency of Professor Paul Cheshire, an important process was initiated to develop ERSA into a truly professional scientific organisation. It will be one of my priorities to see.... read more
ERSA ACTIVITIES
49th Congress of the European Regional Science Association "Territorial cohesion of Europe and integrative planning" - 25th - 29th August 2009 - Lodz, Poland

Invitation and call for abstracts - Deadline extension: 31st January, 2009
For more information about ERSA 2009 Lodz congress, visit ERSA website: www.ersa.org
To submit your abstract : http://www.ersa.org/spip.php?rubrique12

This is a RSAI event.
MEMBERS IN ACTION
10th Anniversary of the membership of Slovak section in the European Regional Science Association

AISRe_book_imageSociety for Regional Science and Policy, which is the umbrella organisation associating Slovak and Czech regional scientists and practitioners, is celebrating the 10th anniversary of the accession to the ERSA. The history of the Society started in early 90th, its main activities has been Clubs of Regional Scientists, organised as informal interdisciplinary meetings of regional economists, spatial planners, environmental economists, sociologists and geographers. In recent years we have extended our activities, of the most significant we can mentioned e.g. biennial Central European Conference in Regional Science (organised jointly with Technical University of Kosice, University of Economics in Bratislava and German Speaking Section of ERSA) or Regional Discussion Forums in Kosice. During these days we are launching new international scientific journal Region Direct and a web page, which will serve as a main information platform of the regional science community in Slovakia and Czech Republic. To support the young regional scientists we are also running project "Learn More and Publish!" (supported by the Tatrabanka Foundation), which will cover two activities - specialised seminars and competition of the best scientific paper of young regional scientist.



(prof. Rudolf Sivák, rector of University of Economics in Bratislava and prof. Milan Buček, former president of Slovac Section of ERSA)
EVENTS/CALL FOR PAPERS
Call for abstracts
The 12th Uddevalla Symposium - 11th to 13th June, 2009 - Politechnico di Bari, Bari, Italy
"The Geography of Innovation and Entrepreneurship"
Abstract Submission Deadline: 21st January, 2009
Final Paper Submission Deadline: 4th May, 2009.
For detailed information on this symposium http://www.ersa.org


Call for abstracts
ERSA Portuguese section event: "Networks and Regional Development"
1st Regional Development Congress of Cape Verde
15th Annual Congress of APDR
2nd Portuguese-speaking Congress of Regional Science
3rd Congress of Nature Management and Conservation
University Jean Piaget, Cape Verde, 6th to 11th July, 2009
Send your abstract until 30th January, 2009 to: apdr@mail.telepac.pt
For more information: http://www.apdr.pt/congresso/2009/home.html


Call for abstracts
3rd World Conference of the Spatial Econometrics Association (SEA)
8th - 10th July, 2009 - Barcelona
Important Dates: Full abstracts are to be submitted by 30th January 2009. The authors will be notified of a decision by 2nd March 2009. If an abstract is accepted, the full paper should be submitted by 1st June 2009.
http://www.ub.es/sea2009.com/
Should you have any enquiries, please direct to sea09@ub.edu


21st Conference for the Pacific Regional Science Conference Organisation
19th to 22nd July 2009 - Surfers Paradise, Queensland, Australia
Important dates: 20th March, 2009 - Final date for submission of abstracts.
29th May, 2009 - Final date for submission of full paper
For more details see the website: http://www.uow.edu.au/conferences/PRSCO2009/home.html


Call for papers
RSAIBIS: 38th Annual Conference - 2nd to 4th September, 2009 - Limerick, Republic of Ireland

Abstracts of up to 300 words should be submitted by e-mail to the Secretary at the address below as soon as possible and by January 31st 2009 at the very latest. Authors will be notified of the committee's decision in March 2009. don.webber@uwe.ac.uk
For more information: http://www.rsai-bis.org/meetings/an_conf.html

Call for papers
CERS - Central European Conference in Regional Science 2009
7th - 9th October, 2009 - Kosice, Slovak Republic
Contact: Lenka Vargova - Technical University of Kosice, Faculty of Economics - cers@tuke.sk
 

56th Annual North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International - November 2009 - San Francisco, USA
For more information: http://www.narsc.org/conference.html


Call for Special Sessions
Special sessions and/or Round Table sessions at the ERSA 2010 Congress
19th to 23rd August, 2010 - Jönköping, Sweden
As a first step in the preparations of sessions we hereby invite ERSA members to propose and organize Special sessions and/or Round table session about specialized research topics you would like to highlight. Please send a short note, including the theme of the proposed session(s) and name of organizer, to the Secretary of the LOC for ERSA 2010, Ms. Iréne Bernard, e-mail: irene.bernhard@hv.se before 1st April, 2009.

News
NEW BOOK FROM THE ERSA 2006 CONGRESS IN VOLOS, GREECE
Regional Analysis and Policy
The Greek Experience
Series: Contributions to Economics
Coccossis, Harry; Psycharis, Yannis (Eds.)
2008, XII, 394 p. 47 illus., Hardcover
ISBN: 978-3-7908-2085-0
For more information visit the site:
http://www.springer.com/economics/regional+science/book/978-3-7908-2085-0


PROGRAM FOR VISITING RESEARCHERS
The Barcelona Institute of Economics (IEB)   
As part of the recently launched Research Program "Cities and Innovation" (Heads: Elisabet Viladecans-Marsal & José García-Quevedo) at the IEB, we are starting a Program for Visiting Researchers in 2009. Applications should be submitted by e-mail to ieb@ub.edu indicating, in the title of the message, 'Visiting Research-Cities & Innovation'.
For more information: http://www.ieb.ub.edu/
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