DEAR FRIENDS,

It is a great honour to invite you to the 8TH EUROPEAN COMMISSION'S ANNUAL EVENT -  WEEK OF INNOVATIVE REGIONS (WIRE) conference supported by the European Commission DG Research & Innovation, Spreading Excellence and Widening Participation Programme hosted by Technical university of Košice:

WIRE' 2017 'SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE, CREATIVE AND TRUSTED REGIONAL INNOVATION IN THE DIGITAL ERA',

The event will be held in Košice, Slovakia on June 28th - 30th.

The conference will be accompanied by several side events (field visits, city walks) and open space presentations, networking and workshops (Creativity of rising generation - presentation and visualization of digital creativity, start-ups by Slovak and creatives, Posters/billboards about visionary approaches with interactive presentations, planned Hackaton on Digital Social Innovation and other).

The ambition of the WIRE VIII conference is to enable a deeper understanding of the role and the needs of research and innovation focused on DIGITISATION FOR achieving a GREATER SOCIETAL IMPACT and the digital responsible future for urban and rural development and related societal challenges, e.g. poverty and income inequalities, social inclusion, regional/local growth, data economy, be closer to the people and other. We also believe that the timing of the conference is very relevant since the discussion about the next EU research and innovation programming period has started and we have to take the opportunity to help and support building of our responsible digital future.

Relevant information and additional details about the event, venue, travel, programme/focus are published on the conference website www.wire2017.eu [1].

TOPICS:

We hope that our invitation has raised your attention and we encourage you to register for WIRE 2017 conference on its official web page as the number of its participants is due to venue space limited to 250. The participation is free of charge.

We look forward to meet you at the conference and discuss our responsible digital future for our regions and people.

Thank you in advance!

Kind regards

Organisation committee

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Join us in Vancouver, British Columbia for the 64th North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International (RSAI) sponsored by the North American Regional Science Council (NARSC).  The conference will be held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, November 8–11th, 2017.  You can learn more about the conference, submit an abstract, and register for the conference and workshops at the NARSC Website at http://www.narsc.org/.

Click on the link to the conference section for general information on the conference.  To register for the conference or submit an abstract/session online you must first login to the User Area. If you attended a NARSC conference over the past couple of years or are a member of a North American regional science organization, when you reach the login page of the User Area, you will be asked to enter your provided username and password.  Otherwise, when you reach the login page of the User Area, you will be asked to click on a link and enter your e-mail address so we can check if you are already in our database. If you are in our database, your username and password will be e-mailed to you so you can login. If you are not in our database, you will need to register for a free NARSC user account and then you will be able to register for the conference and submit an abstract.
Once logged, you can change your password, update your profile, submit an abstract/session, register for the conference, and check the status of your registration.  You will be able come to your account in the User Area subsequently using your valid username and password.  In case you forget your password, just contact technical support at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with your e-mail address and your password will be e-mailed to you so you can login.

Please note that there is a surcharge for individuals who are not members of RSAI. When you are ready to register for the conference please check your RSAI membership status using the search engine available on the RSAI website - http://www.rsai.uac.pt/. If you have any questions regarding your RSAI membership status or would like to join RSAI please contact Elisabete Martins (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) at the RSAI Central Office.

Individual papers and organized sessions must be submitted online in the abstract submission section of the website between now and JULY 1, 2017. The conference registration section is open and allows secure electronic financial transactions. Information about the workshops will be posted in May. If you are potentially interested in attending any workshops it is suggested that you wait until information about them is available before registering for the conference. Be sure to consult the conference website for additional information and details.

Conference organizers welcome individual papers and organized sessions relating to a wide variety of topics that are included within the diverse realm of regional science.  We are an international scholarly organization that focuses on regional analysis, ranging from urban and spatial theory to applied problems in regional development, sustainability, environmental management, and rural land use.  We are an interdisciplinary association, with members representing fields as diverse as economics, agricultural economics, public policy, urban planning, civil engineering, geography, finance, and demography.  The annual North American RSAI conference is the premier regional science meeting in North America and attracts scholars and practitioners from around the world.  

A block of rooms have been reserved at the Hyatt Regency Hotel at the rate of $189 Canadian per night for a single or a double (plus applicable taxes and fees).

If you have questions, here is contact information:

Local arrangements:

John Leatherman (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Program Chair:
Hanna Maoh (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Overall Arrangements
Neil Reid, (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

We look forward to seeing you in Vancouver.

The special sessions on various aspects of GeoComputation are planned for the North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International (NARSC) to be held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, November 8-11, 2017. Suitable topics for the session presentations are theoretical, methodological and applied issues related to GeoComputation – spatial analysis and modeling, and in the context of regional science.

Please let us know if you are interested to contribute to the special session(s) by sending an email at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with thename of authors and their affiliations with contact details, the title of the proposed presentation, the abstract, and the unique ID number at your earliest but not later than June 26th, 2017. The abstract should be 2,000 to 5,500 characters and spaces.

Please note that to have your presentation included to the special session we do need the unique identification number (ID). The ID, or PIN, is a number included at the bottom of the confirmation email received following the submission of an abstract.

Detailed information about the NARSC conference can be found at http://www.narsc.org. Information about the submission process can be found at http://www.narsc.org/newsite/?page_id=64.

Looking forward to seeing you in Vancouver.

The organizers:

Dr. Suzana Dragicevic

Department of Geography

Simon Fraser University, Canada

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Dr. Zhaoya Gong

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

University of Birmingham, UK

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Dr. Jean-Claude Thill

Department of Geography and Earth Sciences

University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA

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Growing concerns about climate change and the frequency/intensity of its associated extreme events have led to a burgeoning literature on the measurement of their economic impacts. Yet, the large majority of such studies ignores or treats poorly the presence of interregional dependence, intersectoral linkages and spatial heterogeneity Regional Scientists are used to deal with.

As such, the Climate Change Impact sessions aim at bringing together NARSC participants interested in measurements of the economic impact of climate change from a Regional Science perspective. Both theoretical and applied papers will be presented in these special sessions.

Examples of topics of interest include:

- Regional mitigation and/or adaptation

- Climate change impacts on crop yields or farmland values

- Climate change impacts on agricultural trade

- Food-water nexus at the regional level

- Regional actions in the absence of federal government intervention

- The environment as a location factor

- Climate change and regional cooperation

If you are interested to contribute with a presentation, please follow the usual abstract submission procedure at http://secure-web.cisco.com/1m9Vux4WA8iCYx6EHsCJaeyz9-pwYNiSpsOCxq76Dy18VdsAtt_oDhJ3p2KAHwr-5zBEmuy5ybuAdQvvr7ORuA6tUhV1RXu5cMSBVihdLFyP2iEjcuSsy57ulmc9QmA_lrVKcarlNSLH8icebjDQ4e0ywMs6EG8hsuAtoGceqmh9aztioLPoiajQewRxD97V8lct3JAJRbeWizdO1dRcpvb4cKqftsKPlQIAJ01hTn3_gTBNMZnsOvu1-_Hxm6k48L3hCxS5NbBpxsOVRWDd5TJmveJbd0aw2Z_3Ic1KTFQU3mZLXBcdyYewgkY7KWBQhCmLUy_FC8GSpOTMn3Sa9HJLyl9kUJ4jYrHI_bedzKZ4mtV5j0O4tAaeJlRM7MGV2AVNIra5eJwrCM7GY-NEQ6A/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.narsc.org%2Fnewsite%2Fconference%2Fonline-abstractsession-submission%2F and then send the ID of the submitted paper to: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Organizers:

-  John Carruthers (Sustainable Urban Planning Program, The George Washington University) - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

- Sandy Dall’erba (Dept. of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

- Henk Folmer (Dept. of Economic Geography, University of Groningen) - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Apreciado colega, querido amigo,

En pocos días cerrará la recepción de resúmenes para laXLIII edición de la Reunión de Estudios Regionales y el XIII Congreso de Ciencia Regional de Andalucía que se celebrara en el Campus de la Universidad Pablo de Olavide (Sevilla) los días 15, 16 y 17 de noviembre de 2017. Si deseas unirte a los más de 200 participantes en uno de los grandes eventos en el calendario de la Ciencia Regional para 2017, deberás enviar tu resumen antes del próximo día 2 de junio.

El lema de esta edición es “Comercio internacional y empleo: Una perspectiva regional”. Las sesiones del Congreso tratarán además un conjunto amplio de temas agrupado en 16 áreas temáticas y sesiones especiales. Además, en esta edición contaremos con la presencia como conferenciantes del prof. Ferrán Sancho (Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona) y el prof. Michael Lahr (Rutgers Economic Advisory).

Como novedad en esta edición y con el objetivo principal de complementar el público académico del congreso con otro tipo de participantes más técnico, de administraciones locales, ofrecemos, en paralelo a las comunicaciones, unas sesiones en las que profesorado de universidades/investigadores presenten trabajos de Transferencia de Conocimiento que hayan realizado para Administraciones Locales, supralocales o regionales, y que crean que pueden ser de interés para otros técnicos de otros territorios. Por ello os pedimos que, aquellos que estéis interesados en participar, nos enviéis el modelo abstract adjunto para considerarlos a This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. y poder incluirlos en el programa. El plazo de presentación de esta nueva actividad es hasta el 31 de julio de 2017. Para todos aquellos responsables de administraciones locales, entidades públicas y privadas os recomendamos asistir al congreso, a estas interesantes sesiones paralelas a aprender, compartir experiencias y lograr mejorar en cuestiones estudiadas y explicados por expertos.

Otra novedad en esta edición la colaboración de la Revista de Estudios Andaluces, que seleccionará algún artículo/os de los presentados en el congreso para su proceso de evaluación.

Toda la información necesaria para que podáis enviar vuestros trabajos y realizar la inscripción se encuentra en la página web de laXLIII edición de la Reunión de Estudios Regionales. Os recordamos que la extensión máxima es de  300 palabras, y que se enviará a la Secretaria de la AECR (Conxita Rodriguez i Izquierdo) a la siguiente dirección de correo electrónico (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) con el modelo que os adjuntamos. 

Te rogamos que difundas esta información entre todas las personas que puedas considerar interesadas en participar. Además del envío de artículos completos, pueden presentarse también trabajos en curso en forma de un abstract ampliado, con una extensión mínima de 1.500 palabras. Os adjuntamos los dos tipos de abstracts para que los tengáis a mano y más información sobre el Congreso.

Los estudiantes de Master y doctorandos de primer año disfrutarán de la posibilidad de asistir a las sesiones y eventos incluidos en el programa del congreso  pagando una cuota de inscripción reducida y, si además quieren tener la posibilidad de discutir sus planes futuros de investigación podrán participar en sesiones especiales de posters.

¡Os esperamos en Sevilla!

Un saludo cordial,

El Comité Organizador

Valued colleague, dear friend,

The abstract submission deadline for the XLIII Reunión de Estudios Regionales and the XIII Conference on Regional Science of Andalusia, that will take place at the Campus of the University Pablo de Olavide (Seville), from the 15th to the 17th of November, 2017is quickly approaching. If you want to join more than 200 participants in one of the main events of the Regional Science calendar for 2017, you must submit your abstract before June 2rd.

The motto for the Conference is "International trade and employment: a regional perspective”. Conference sessions will include also a wide range of topics, grouped in 16 subject areas and special sessions. We are pleased to announce that Prof. Ferrán Sancho (Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona) and Prof. Michael Lahr (Rutgers Economic Advisory Service) will join the Conference as Keynote Speakers.

As a novelty in this edition and with the main objective of complementing the academic public of the congress with other types of more technical participants, of local administrations, we offer, in parallel to the communications, sessions in which professors of universities / researchers present works of Transfer of Knowledge that they have performed for Local, supralocal or regional Administrations, and which they believe may be of interest to other technicians from other territories. Therefore we ask that those who are interested in participating, send us the attached abstract template to consider to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and be able to include them in the program. The deadline for submitting this new activity is until July 31, 2017. For all those responsible for local administrations, public and private entities we recommend attending the conference: these interesting parallel sessions to learn, share experiences and achieve improvement in issues Studied and explained by experts.

Another novelty in this edition is the collaboration of the Revista de Estudios Andaluces, which will select some articles from those presented at the congress for its evaluation process.

Abstracts, with an extension of no more than 300 words, should be sent to the AECR Secretary (Conxita Rodriguez i Izquierdo) to the email address This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., whith the attached template. This year you can submit the results from ongoing research even if there is not a complete paper available yet. The Scientific Committe will consider for acceptance the submission of long abstracts, with a minimum extension of 1,500 words. Templates for both types of abstracts, as well as further information for the Conference, are attached for your convenience.

You can find all the information for registration and submission at the XLIII edición de la Reunión de Estudios Regionales web page. 

Looking forward to meet you at Seville!

Greetings,

The Organizing Committee

Dear NECTAR friends

We are less than two weeks away from the 14th International NECTAR conference in Madrid, May 31-June 2. The Madrid conference will have over 130 participants and will be an exciting event. The conference will also mark the 25th anniversary of NECTAR and special events will be organized to celebrate this milestone.

In Madrid, we will also award the 2nd NECTAR PhD Award for best recent PhD thesis work in the NECTAR field. The award is established in memory of Professor Piet Rietveld, who chaired NECTAR in the years 2002-2007 and who with his exceptional academic abilities inspired and stimulated many young researchers, PhD students and the NECTAR community in general. Fourteen excellent theses had been nominated by their PhD supervisors, and the PhD Committee, chaired by Professor Erik Verhoef, had a very difficult task selecting the winner. I am pleased to announce here that Cyrille Médard de Chardon from the University of Luxembourg wrote the winning thesis titled “A geographical analysis of bicycle sharing systems”. Cyrille will present his thesis in the closing plenary session of the conference.

Furthermore, I am also happy to announce that at the Madrid conference the new NECTAR cluster 7 on Social and Health Issues will be launched. The social and health-related impacts from transport are diverse and there are many challenges to understand how they affect our social and economic wellbeing. This new cluster will bring together researchers from a variety of scientific disciplines and will surely help to strengthen NECTAR as a multidisciplinary social science network. The aims of the cluster and the cluster co-chairs are presented in this newsletter.

I look forward to seeing many of you in Madrid!

Karst Geurs, NECTAR chair

http://www.civic-project.eu/en/events/14th-nectar-international-conference