CERS – 8th Central European Conference on Regional Science

Call for special sessions: open until June 12, 2022

Please send proposal with description to: cers2022@amu.edu.pl

Keynote speakers:

Jean-Claude Thill (University of North Carolina, USA)

Kostyantyn Menzetsev (Taras Shevchenko National University in Kyiv, Ukraine)

Program & tracks

We kindly invite all interested to submit a presentation proposal – abstract up to 250 words

• Contemporary and future challenges for cities and regions: Are we ready for them?
• Cities and regions facing the economic crisis and global epidemic
• Cities and regions in climate change
• Circular economy for resilient cities
• Uncertainty in local and regional policies
• Urban and regional development
• Demography, migration and social inequalities
• Innovation, entrepreneurship and regional competitiveness
• Spatial planning, sustainable development and ecological transition
• Rural regions and their development
• Culture, tourism, health and education in an uncertain time
• Land use, transport, mobility and accessibility
• Perspectives on shrinking cities development
• Regional finance, fiscal issues, investment and capital markets
• The digital world, digital region and digital society
• Methods and models in regional science and urban economics
• Ukraine and CEE countries in the face of war

The abstracts will be verified by the members of the Scientific Committee

Special sessions:

• Please submit a special session proposal until June, 12 2022
• Special session for PhD students

For PhD students and early career researchers, the 8th CERS Conference offers a special occasion to meet leading European researchers of regional science. We are organizing a special session for Young Scientists, in order to give our young colleagues the opportunity to both present and discuss their scientific achievements and obtain high quality feedback from senior colleagues who deal with the same or similar issues.

We welcome papers from young colleagues (up to 34 years old by December 31, 2022) from the field of regional science.

Important dates

May – call for special sessions & save the date information distribution

12 June 2022 – final date for special sessions proposal submission

15 June 2022 – special sessions acceptance

15 June 2022 – 4 September 2022 – abstract submission

17 September – abstract acceptance

30 September – registration and payment (early bird)

11 November – registration and payments (regular fee)

21-23 November – conference (online)

Registration fees

Before 30 September 2022

60 euro for ERSA/RSAI members

75 euro for non-ERSA/RSAI members

1 October – 11 November 2022

70 EUR for ERSA/RSAI

85 EUR for non-ERSA/RSAI

Participation fee includes up to 2 presentations (i.e. you can be a presenter of two papers).

Organizers

Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland (virtual host)

Polish, Slovak and Hungarian Sections of ERSA – The European Regional Science Association

More about ERSA: https://ersa.org/

Homepage of the Polish section of ERSA: http://www.ersa.org.pl/

Local Organising Committee (LOC):

Tomasz Kossowski – Head of the LOC

Emilia Bogacka – Secretary of the LOC

Paweł Churski – Dean of the Faculty of Human Geography and Planning, Adam Mickiewicz Univeristy in Poznań, Poland

Adam Radzimski – Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Human Geography and Planning, Adam Mickiewicz Univeristy in Poznań, Poland

Justyna Weltrowska

Justyna Wilk

Kamila Sikorska-Podyma

Iwona Zwierzchowska

Robert Perdał

Wojciech Dyba

Publications

We invite to submit papers (under standard publication tracks) to the journals edited by professors from the Faculty of Human Geography and Planning, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland:

Quaestiones Geographicae – http://qg.home.amu.edu.pl/

Czasopismo Geograficzne Polish Geographical Journal – https://ptgeo.org.pl/en/journal/

Biuletyn Rozwój Regionalny i Polityka Regionalna – http://rr.home.amu.edu.pl/

Contact

cers2022@amu.edu.pl