Broad themes and key shifts the organisers are keen to facilitate discussion around include, but are not limited to: - Post-2020 EU Budget, the future of EU Policies and their likely implications for cities and regions, - Energy transitions, environmental sustainability, and designing urban and...

Conference key themes: - Urban and regional resilience, - Small cities after decline, - Small cities in non-core areas: local, regional and national policies on their shrinking and/or revival, - Local self-government and inter-budgetary relations, - Strategies and instruments of re-growth and...

The RSA Europe's Summer College has been established to focus on how ideas, theories, methods and data can be leveraged across disciplines for the purpose of scientific advancement. Applications are welcome from PhD candidates and post-docs who have been awarded a PhD in the past 5 years, from a...

Topics: Eco civilization; Urban clusters; Mega city development and metropolitan regions; New economy; Urban and regional development; One belt, one road; Global-local: globalization and development; Urban-rural integration; Inclusive urban and regional development; Territorial inequality, social...

The 2018 RSA Annual Conference aims to address processes of global reversal and regional revival, in a world dominated by flows of capital, labor, and knowledge. Further it seeks to understand the political, economic and social factors that initiate change and how these changes are finding new...

This conference will discuss the emergence of new forms of industrial development and policies targeted on the competitiveness of regions and cities. The aim of the conference is to share knowledge and experiences in industrial and territorial development. Developed, emerging, and developing...

The RSA CEE Conference in Cluj-Napoca welcomes inputs from researchers, policy-makers and practitioners working in all areas of regional development. The conference will offer an excellent opportunity for initiating a multidisciplinary dialogue on themes such as: - Resilient Communities, -...

Conference Themes: A. New Direction in Regional Studies, Community, Local & Regional Development, B. Governance, Institutions & Civil Society, C. Financial Crisis, Resilience, Recession, Austerity & Recovery, D. Financial Geographies & Globalisation, E. Entrepreneurship, Investment, Start-ups &...

This conference aims to take stock of the smart specialisation experience and assess its current state of the art both in terms of conceptual developments and practical implementation. It offers to a limited number of participants from academia, European Institutions and territorial authorities,...

Conference Tracks and Themes: A. Smart Cities, Smart Regions; B. Regional Innovation: Theory, Methods, Practice; C. Territory, Politics, Governance; D. Sustainable Cities and Regions; E. Emerging Community, Urban, and Regional Identities; F. Labor Markets in Cities and Regions; G: Regional...