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...