Current Calls for Upcoming Events
This section is aimed to display ongoing and upcoming Calls for Submission for presentation during ERSA and ERSA Sections Events as well as other events relevant for the Regional Science Community
Ongoing Calls
Latest update: 11 November 2025
Calls for ERSA and ERSA Sections’ Events
Hungarian Section
XIV. Scientific Conference on Landscape History – History Creating Landscape
Pécs, February 5–6, 2026
The Hungarian Regional Science Association, the Department of Landscape Protection and Rehabilitation at MATE, the Center for Historical and Political Geography Research at PTE SZKK, the Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences at PTE TTK, and the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at PTE are jointly organizing the XIV. Deadline for registration and abstract submission: November 30, 2025. The conference will be held in Hungarian.
German Speaking Section
Call for Abstracts
Winter Seminar of the German Speaking Section of ERSA, 15-21 February 2026, Innsbruck / Austria
All contributions with a focus on regional/spatial phenomena and an economic, environmental, geographical or social science background are welcome!
Submit your extended abstract at www.gfr.ersa.org by 23 November 2025, indicating any time constraints, and take advantage of a winter seminar with ample time for engaging discussions and socializing opportunities.
Participation in the seminar is free of charge. Travel and accommodation costs, however, must be covered by the participants themselves.
New: Early-career researchers can apply for a grant subsidizing accommodation costs when submitting their abstract.
Contact: gfr@ersa.org
British and Irish Section
52nd Annual Conference
The British and Irish Section is delighted to confirm that their 2026 annual conference will take place at Queens University, Belfast on May 13 and 14. Chair of the Local Organising Committee, Dr Kevin Mulligan, says that “the Belfast conference will be a great occasion, and it is wonderful to see the conference returning to Northern Ireland for the first time since 2007”.
Belfast is served by two airports, Belfast International Airport and the George Best Belfast City Airport, with good connectivity to the rest of Europe. Dublin Airport has flights to the US, Asia, and Africa and has a direct bus connection to Belfast. Dublin to Belfast is two hours by bus or train. There are also ferry connections to Belfast from Liverpool and Cairnryan in Scotland.
So please mark the date in your diary and keep an eye on the Section website for more details. Call for abstracts opens soon.
Early Career and Doctoral Colloquium 2026 – Call for Abstracts
Our popular Online Early Career Colloquium is returning on the 21st and 22nd of January 2026. This is a great opportunity for PhD researchers and early career researchers (within 3 years of their PhD) to present and discuss their work with experienced academics in their field. We welcome PhD researchers *at any stage* of their PhD. First-year PhD students are encouraged to apply and may present research plans or works in progress.
Attendance at the colloquium is free. There are also prizes for the best paper and the best presentation. Prize winners will receive a certificate and will be invited to attend our annual RSAI-BIS conference in Belfast in May 2026, for free. The prize covers conference fee, accommodation, and economy-class travel costs.
To apply, please email a short abstract (500 words max) to daragholeary@ucc.ie by 17:00 (UTC Time) Friday the 12th of December, 2025.
Italian Section: Post-Doctoral Scholarship “Roberto Camagni” – 2nd Edition
Italian Section
Call for papers – XLVII Annual Scientific Conference
Florence, June 24-26 2026
REGIONS BETWEEN INNOVATION AND SUSTAINABILITY: THE CHALLENGES FOR DEVELOPMENT POLICIES
The Italian Association of Regional Science (A.I.S.Re), the Italian section of the Regional Science Association International (RSAI), announces its 47th Annual Scientific Conference.
The conference, which welcomes contributions from national and international scholars across a variety of disciplines related to regional science, will be held at theDipartimento di Scienze per l’Economia e l’Impresa, Università di Firenze, Polo delle Scienze Sociali di Novoli, Florence.
More information: here
“GIORGIO LEONARDI” 2026 – BEST PH.D. DISSERTATION AWARD – XLI EDITION
To promote the diffusion of Regional Science among young scholars, AISRe (the Italian Section of the Regional Science Association International) has established an annual award for two Ph.D. dissertations in memory of Giorgio Leonardi. Applications must be send within the deadline of March 3rd, 2025.
“AISRe” YOUNG AUTHOR BEST PAPER AWARD 2026 – XVIII EDITION
To promote the diffusion of Regional Science in the Italian university system, AISRe has established an award for the most original and innovative paper presented by a young scholar at its annual scientific Conference. Candidates must send the abstract and paper through the Association’s website by March, 3rd, 2026.
Complete information at the following LINK