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Local Organising Committee
COMMITTEE FOR SPATIAL ECONOMY AND REGIONAL PLANNING AT THE POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (Polish Section of the ERSA)
The Polish Section of ERSA is organised within the organisational structure of the Committee for Spatial Economy and Regional Planning at the Polish Academy of Sciences as one of thematic task forces set up by the Committee.
The Section is presided over by prof. Tadeusz Markowski.
Research activities concentrate on spatial structures with regards to the society and the economy. Members of the Section perform numerous research projects on the theory and methodology of regional research and analysis, settlement systems, regionalisation and spatial planning. Our members are also actively involved in preparing spatial forecasts, analyses, programmes and spatial development plans for the country or individual regions.
The Committee for Spatial Economy and Regional Planning, today representing the Polish Section of ERSA, was set up in 1958. Throughout its history the Committee was presided over by:
- prof. Stanisław Leszczycki,
- prof. Kazimierz Dziewoński
- prof. Ryszard Domański
- prof. Jerzy Kołodziejski
- prof. Tadeusz Markowski
More information on the activities performed by the Committee for Spatial Economy and Regional Planning and the Polish Section of ERSA may be found at http://www.kpzk.pan.pl.
Local organising committee:
- Professor Tadeusz Markowski - Chair
- Dr Maciej Turala - vice-Chair
- Dr Beata Banachowicz
- Dr Justyna Danielewicz
- Dr Dorota Sikora
- Mgr Filip Moterski
- Mgr Renata Rybarczyk
THE DEPARTMENT OF CITY AND REGIONAL MANAGEMENT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF LODZ
The areas of research and teaching include:
- urban economics and management;
- sustainable development in cities and regions, clean production, environmental aspects of spatial economy;
- strategic planning for local and regional development;
- managing territorial units;
- theory of management in the public sector;
- theory of external effects;
- land use management;
- theory of spatial planning;
- regional innovation systems and regional competitiveness;
- international aspects of regional policy;
- sustainable energy management in urban areas;
- logistics in city and regional management;
- non-governmental organisations and corporate social responsibility;
- managing social capital;
- management in the non-profit sector;
The following people make up the Department:
- professor Tadeusz Markowski
- professor Jerzy Rutkowski
- professor Danuta Stawasz
- dr. Justyna Danielewicz
- dr. Dorota Sikora-Fernandez
- dr. Magdalena Nowak
- dr. Janusz Reichel
- dr. Maciej Kozakiewicz
- dr. Dominik Drzazga
- dr. Maciej Turała
- dr. Maria Świderek
- mgr Filip Moterski
- mgr Renata Rybarczyk
The Department was one of the co-hosts of the 18th European Advanced Studies Institute in Regional Science, held in Kraków and Łódź in July 2005: New Members – New Challenges for the European Regional Development Policy.
More information on the activities performed by the Department of City and Regional Management may be found at http://www.wz.uni.lodz.pl.
Brief notes about the venue for the 49th European Congress of the Regional Science Association International
The Faculty of Management is one of the youngest faculties at the University of Lodz. It was created on the 1st of September 1994. The Faculty is based on ten organizational units, which were separated from the Faculty of Economics and Sociology. The research work and educational activities of these units concentrate on various aspects of management. The history of the Faculty might seem short. However, its roots reach as far as the Faculty of Law and Economics and the Lodz University of Economics, which was incorporated into the University of Lodz in 1961.
The Faculty of Management shared all premises with the Faculty of Economics and Sociology until May 2002. However, nowadays students benefit from modern infrastructure (16.000 m²) comprising of lecture and exercise rooms, including air – conditioned lecture rooms, equipped with the latest audio – visual technology. The Faculty has rooms equipped with computers and appropriate software and offers students free access to the Internet (Wi- Fi).
International Cooperation
Agreements on direct cooperation:
University of Maryland, USA
Towson University, USA
University of Pierze – Mendel France, Grenoble II, France
University of Maribor, Slovenia
Orebro University, Sweden
Universita degli Studi di Parma, Italy
Johhanes Kupler Universitat, Linz, Austria
Kaunas Technologijos Universitetas, Lithuania
University agreements:
Justus-Liebig Universität Giessen, Germany
University of North Texas Denton, USA
St. Cloud State University, USA
Universite Lyon II, France
Lunds Universitet, Sweden
University of Texas w Austin, USA
ESADE Barcelona, Spain
Ekonomika Univerzita v Bratislave, Slovakia
Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil
Universite Lyon II LUMIERE, France
SOCRATES programme
Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen, Netherlands
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Universita degli Studi di Trento, Italy
Jyväskylän yliopisto, Finland
Tampereen yliopisto, Finland
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany
Justus-Liebig Universität Giessen, Germany
Universität Kaiserslautern, Germany
University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Universite Jean Moulin Lyon 3, France
University of Örebro, Sweden
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Europa-Universität Viadrina, Germany
Universität Tübingen, Germany
Universität Flensburg, Germany
Instituto Politecnico de Beja, Portugal
Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain
Vilniaus Gedimino Technikos Universitetas, Lithuania
Kaunas University, Lithuania
Latvijas Universitate, Latvia
Sodertorns Hogskola, Sweden
Uniwersytet w Liberec, Czech Republic
Coventry University, Great Britain
Universite de Liege, Belgium
Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, Austria
Informal cooperation:
Universitat Mannheim, Germany
Europa-Universität Viadrina, Germany
Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, Germany
University of Pittsburgh, USA
University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Great Britain
Middlesex University, Great Britain
Atkinson Graduate School of Management Willamette University, USA
University of Utrecht, Netherlands
University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, USA
Universitat Stuttgart, Germany
University of Stirling, Scotland
Universite Pierre-Mendes France, Grenoble II, Francja
THE SOCIETY OF TOWN PLANNERS
The Society of Polish Town Planners is an advocate for social interest in management and use of Polish space. For over 80 years it has been uniting people of various professions and specialities in order to make the urban and rural areas an environment that would effectively serve spiritual and material needs of people ingrained in the cultural heritage of the nation, harmonising with nature and enriching the beauty of natural landscape.
It is a social organisation, undertaking efforts for the benefit of society. This civic organisation is open to everyone who through their economic and political activity, as well as their knowledge and skills, improve the quality of Polish space and wants it to become increasingly attractive and competitive in the modern world.
The Society of Polish Town Planners was founded in 1923 by a group of eminent architects, scientists and at the same time – social workers, focused around the Faculty of Architecture at the Warsaw University of Technology.
Today, the Society has around 1000 members in over a dozen regional sections. Since the founding of the Chamber of Urban Planners, the Society has been gradually changing into an association of social-scientific character, gathering enthusiasts of all issues connected with urbanism.
The statute’s aim of the Society of Polish Town Planners is to conduct and support activities serving spatial management of Poland in a way, that
- realizes the principles of sustainable development and ensures spatial order
- protects the existing cultural, natural and landscape values and creates new ones
- supports development and integration of local communities and best caters for their needs
- contributes to economic development
These goals are attained through:
- cooperation with other social organisations, academies, scientific institutions, bodies of government and regional administration and all institutions dealing with regional and urban planning;
- improving professional and scientific qualifications of its members;
- advertising new research and design methods;
- expressing opinions and making expertises for the needs of interested bodies responsible for spatial management, state of the environment and living conditions.
More information on the activities performed by the Society of Polish Town Planners may be found at http://www.tup.org.pl.
