REC2021 provides a platform for academics, researchers, authorities and practitioners to present and discuss challenges facing regional development. Original research considering the impact of territorial inequality on social and economic transformations, analysing the extent and causes of...

Thematic Areas: 1. Convergence, growth and development of the territories 2. Efficiency, productivity, competitiveness and space 3. Urban and territorial sustainability, natural resources, energy and environment 4. Globalization and territory: foreign sector, foreign direct investment, flows and...

Key topic of the conference – Regional development in the context of global trends of the world economy . The main challenge for regional elites is launching a new wave of economic development. Even the most efficient regional management teams that can withstand external challenges are not...

The workshop discussion is divided into three themes: 1. New economic realities for cities and regions. What are the challenges and threats for spatial development? Particular attention will be given to digitalization processes, their impact on the development of cities and regions, and how...

This year the conference will focus on two themes: Innovation in the context of rural areas and Mordernising the rural economy. Within these two policy streams several topics will be discussed, including: - Skill building - moving from lifetime employment to lifetime employability in rural...

In this 1st International Forum on Insularity in the Mediterranean the main focus areas will be four especially sensitive issues for island territories: agriculture and industry, tourism, transportation and communications and global change.