Interdisciplinary Analysis and Policies for Regional Sustainability

The Regional Science Association International (www.regionalscience.org/) will organize a Summer Course, on the theme Interdisciplinary Analysis and Policies for Regional Sustainability, that will be held from the 1st till the 5th of June 2015 at the “Tezh Ler” Resort, Dilijan, Armenia.The summer course will take place during five highly focused and intense days of advanced training, student presentations and debates, and discussion of career strategies.

The summer course will focus on various themes:

• Regional growth and disparities
• Fiscal decentralization, efficiency and growth
• Government quality and spatial inequality
• Clusters, proximity, and regional innovation policies
• Regional development and territorial governance
• Regional development in rural and peripheral areas
• Spatial econometrics and CGE Modelling
• Investment and Impact Assessment
• Transportation analysis and policy
• Innovations and Entrepreneurship
• Innovation and Regional Growth in the EU
• World Financial Crisis Aftermaths
• Spatial models in agricultural sector
• Sustainable development and globalization
• Integrating spatial models into regional energy system optimization

The Summer Course will be taught in English.

Deadline for the application is 2nd of March 2015.

The application has to include the following information: 

• Scientific CV (including: name, gender, address, date of birth, current status and affiliation)
• a short description of previous and current research work,
• title and extended abstract of the intended presentation

For more information please visit: http://www.armenia2015.regionalscience.org/

Applications should be sent to rsai@apdr.pt  (copy to Foreign Relations Division of ASUE: int@asue.am)