Dear Colleagues

we invite you and your colleagues to the 2nd international Summer School on: "Concepts and tools to engage in knowledge co-production and public participation" in Montpellier, France, from June 27th to July 1st 2016.

The NEW CLOSING DATE FOR APPLICATIONS is May 15th, 2016.

The summerschool aims at: a) Improving the understanding of the challenges related to stakeholder involvement in knowledge co-production and public participation processes; b) delivering a generic frame for planning and facilitating sound processes; c) teaching innovative, participatory methods and tools useful for addressing complex issues in diverse, multi-level stakeholder settings; and d) developing reflexive capacities for continuous process improvement.

For more information, please look at the call attached, contact us or send a message to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

We kindly ask you to forward this call to interested colleagues and post the call in your institute.

Thank you very much and looking forward to see you in Montpellier!

Jennifer Hauck, Mathieu Dionnet, Marta Varanda & Sofia Bento

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Dr. Jennifer Hauck

Dear all,

The new RSAI Newsletter May 2016 can now be found under

http://regionalscience.org/~regiona/images/PDF/newsletter_RSAI_May2016.pdf

Dear colleagues & partners,

The EIB, EIF and EIB Institute are happy to announce that they will support the 19^th MFC conference Microfinance in the Cloud. The conference will take place in Tirana, Albania  on 23^rd and 24^th June.

It is expected that more than 500 microfinance practitioners, social investors, policy makers and industry makers will attend this international conference.  The conference agenda includes cutting edge workshops and plenary sessions on the latest technological developments in alternative finance, ownership issues and cooperative principles in microfinance, financing the youth and many others.  The program also includes a variety of pre-conference workshops and study visits to Albanian microfinance institutions.  If you are interested in participating, check out the full program available at www.mfc2016.org.

We look forward to seeing you in Tirana!

Best regards,

EIB Group

A Workshop on

Dusit Thani Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand

14th PRSCO Summer Institute

http://www.prsco2016.com/Workshop.html

Dear Colleague,

Early booking deadline approaching: 27 May 2016

Urban Transitions Global Summit 2016 will bring together global leaders to stimulate debate and provide a basis for new interconnected ways of thinking to shape the future direction of our cities.

Register here by 27 May 2016 to save on delegate fees and to take part in this major, new interdisciplinary conference.

With nearly 1000 abstracts submitted, the event promises a topical and comprehensive programme comprising:

• 16 keynote speakers
• 4 high-level plenary panels
• 96 oral presentations
• 12 workshop sessions

• Large poster sessions 
  (for which it is still possible to submit an abstract)

Interact with the following keynote speakers

	Suparno Banerjee, Vice President, HP Public Sector Strategic Programs, USA
	Stephen Barrett, Partner, Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, UK
	Michael Batty, Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London, UK
	Anthony Capon, International Institute for Global Health, United Nations University (UNU-IIGH), Malaysia
	Herbert Girardet, Co-Founder, World Future Council, Germany
	Ding Jiemin, President, Tongji Architectural Design Co Ltd, China
	Susan Parnell, African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town, South Africa
	Feniosky Peña-Mora, Commissioner of the New York City Department of Design and Construction, USA (subject to approval)
	Martin Powell, Head of Urban Development, Siemens Global Cities Centre of Competence, UK
	Christoph Reinhart, Associate Professor in Building Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
	Saskia Sassen, Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology, Columbia University, USA
	David Satterthwaite, International Institute for Environment and Development, UK
	Clay Stranger, Office of the Chief Scientist, Rocky Mountain Institute, USA
	Guanghua Wan, Director of Research, Asian Development Bank Institute, Japan
	Zhiqiang Wu, College of Architecture and Urban Planning and Vice President, Tongji University, China
	Lan Xue, Cheung Kong Chair Professor and Dean of School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University, China

We hope that you will join us in Shanghai.

Darren Robinson, University of Nottingham, UK 
Karen C. Seto, Yale University, USA 
Co-Chairs: Urban Transitions Global Summit 2016

Conference
“REGIONAL COOPERATION WITHIN AND ACROSS SOUTH ASIA”

Hosted by Ryszard Czarnecki, Vice-President of the European Parliament

Organised by South Asia Democratic Forum, European Regional Science Association
and the Institute of South Asian Studies, Sichuan University

Building ASP, Room A1H1, European Parliament
4 May 2016 16:00-18:30

Final Program attached.

Valued colleague, dear friend,

Abstract submission for the XLII Reunión de Estudios Regionales, organized by the Regional Science Spanish Association (AECR) is open. The Conference will take place at the Faculty of Economics and Business Studies at the University of Santiago de Compostela, from the 16th to the 18th of November, 2016.

The motto for the Conference is "Thirty years of European integration from the regional perspective: Past results and future challenges". Conference sessions will include also a wide range of topics, grouped in 14 subject areas and 7 special sessions. We are pleased to announce that Prof. Geoffrey J.D. Hewings (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) will join the Conference as Keynote Speaker.

Abstracts, with an extension of no more than 300 words, should be sent before May 13th, 2016, through the members' area. For the first time, 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.

Unpublished papers written by researchers of age not higher than 33 years and presented at the parallell sessions of the XLII Reunión de Estudios Regionales are eligible for the Juan Ramón Cuadrado Young Researchers' Prize. The jury that will grant the Prize is the Scientific Committee of the XLII Reunión de Estudios Regionales. The authors of the paper awarded with the Prize will receive an accreditation for the award and a gift.

PhD students in the first stages of their dissertations and Master students with a research orientation will enjoy reduced registration fees that will allow them access to the parallell sessions at the Conference, and also to participate in the Young Researcher Sessions. There, they will present briefly their research ideas, preferably through posters.

We are looking forward to your participation and we hope we will have the opportunity to welcome you at Santiago.

Greetings,

The Organizing Committee

http://www.reunionesdeestudiosregionales.org/Home-82-home
Best regards,

Conxita Rodríguez i Izquierdo
Secretaria AECR
ATENCIÓN DIRECCIÓN DE ENVÍO:

C/Finlàndia, 27 B.I. – 08014 Barcelona

Join us in Minneapolis, Minnesota for the 63rd North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International (RSAI) sponsored by the North American Regional Science Council (NARSC) and hosted by the Mid-Continent Regional Science Association (MCRSA).  The conference will be held at the Minneapolis Marriot City Center, November 9th – 12th, 2016.  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.

Individual papers, posters, and sessions must be submitted online in the abstract submission section of the website between now and JULY 1, 2016. The conference registration section is open and allows secure electronic financial transactions. We will continue to host poster sessions, and pre-conference workshops, which will be held on November 9th. 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 inclusive 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 Minneapolis Marriot City Center at the rate of $169/night for a single or a double (plus applicable taxes at time of check out – currently 13.4%).

 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.)

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

Program Chair:

Haifeng Qian (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 Minneapolis.