ERSA@EURegionsWeek 2024

The European Week of Regions and Cities (#EURegionsWeek) is a major annual event dedicated to regional policy. The week serves as a platform to discuss and showcase the development of EU Cohesion Policy and to raise awareness of the importance of regions and cities in EU policymaking. More information on the week can be found at https://europa.eu/regions-and-cities/home_en.
The #EURegionsWeekCollege and the #EURegionsWeekUniversity are organised by the European Commission, Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy (DG REGIO) and the European Committee of the Regions (CoR) advised by the Regional Studies Association European Foundation (RSA Europe) and with the cooperation of the European Regional Science Association (ERSA) and the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP).

The end of the trade-offs? Competing and Converging for European Democracy

Venue: Albert Borschette Congress Center, Room AB-2A, Thu 10/10/2024, 11:30- 12:30 CEST

Speakers:

Univ. Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr Franziska Sielker, Head of Research Unit, European Spatial Development and Territorial Cohesion | Governance Research | Border Regions | Smart Cities, TU Wien, Austria
Professor Dimitris Ballas, Professor of Economic Geography, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Professor Andrés Rodríguez-Pose, Princesa de Asturias Chair and a Professor of Economic Geography, London School of Economics, UK. He is the Director of the Cañada Blanch Centre LSE and Visiting Professor at the Centre for Innovation Research, University of Stavanger, Norway.

Moderator: Louise Kempton, Newcastle University

Venue: Albert Borschette Congress Center, AB-3A, Wed 09/10/2024, 09:30 – 10:30 CEST

Speakers:

Anabela Marques Santos, Project Manager, Joint Research Centre, Belgium
Ida Musialkowska, Professor, Poznań University of Economics and Business, Poland
Ugo Fratesi, Professor, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Moderator:

Serafin Pazos-Vidal, Head of unit, European Association for Innovation in Local Development, Belgium