The Regional Studies Association Winter Conference 2022 offers a timely opportunity to discuss and debate important issues, and to rethink the key theories, concepts and methods used in the field of regional studies in the face of changing regional challenges, and to provide new evidence for the...

Regional Inequality is a significant challenge for regional science with several issues, needs, opportunities but also threats for regions specialized in e.g. tourism, services or/and manufacturing. Production, innovation and consumption systems, labour markets, entrepreneurship, educations and...

The Festival will address themes related to the re-emergence of regions and cities from the pandemic. It includes longer-standing challenges to society of climate change, geopolitical manoeuvrings, the rise of populism, the financial implications of these shifts, migration crises, new challenges...

2020 RSA Annual Conference - POSTPONED to 2022

This year ERSA Summer School's edition will feature: “Regions in transition, what implications for tourism and manufacturing?”. The ERSA Summer School 2020 aims to provide PhD Students and young researchers with the very latest advances in regional sciences on the topics of cities and...

The conference organisers are keen to attract papers and sessions which rethink cities and regions by identifying new fields of enquiry, which address a broad research and policy agenda, and include contributions from any discipline which can offer relevant insights at local and regional levels....

This conference will provide the opportunity for urban and regional scholars to grapple with the complexities of innovation and change, qualifying the idea of innovation, questioning the institutions that organize and channel it, and exploring the actors, private, public and civil society, who...

The 2019 RSA CEE conference showcases challenges, determinants and perspectives of development of different kind of metropolises and peripheries in CEE. The emphasis is on the economic performance, social, and political issues with respect to regional, national and European dimensions.

The ERSA congress “Cities, regions and digital transformations: Opportunities, risks and challenges” will host a large variety of themes in spatial, regional, and urban economics, economic geography, and regional policy topics like local governance and institutions. The Congress has also the...

The ERSA Summer School 2019 aims to provide PhD Students and young researchers with the very latest advances in regional sciences on the topics of cities and regions in the process of transformation. Both theoretical, empirical and policy analysis research are welcome. Topics: Innovation,...