Welcome
The European Regional Science Association and the OECD are pleased to announce their collaboration for the organisation of the 2nd ERSA Winter School. The Winter School will be co-organised with the support of the Italian Section of ERSA, AISRE.
ERSA Winter School on " Spatial Productivity for Regional
and Local Development"
will be held from 21 - 25 January, 2019
at the OECD Trento Centre for Local Development, Italy
Key dates
Call for Application start: 26th July 2018
Application deadline: 28th September 2018
Notification of acceptance and registration start: 6th November 2018
Deadline for registration and payment: 14th December 2018
Programme
Final update - 28 January 2019
Winter School Programme
Final course outline & agenda here.
Lecturers Presentations
Please find below the lecturers' presentations (with the authorization of the lecturers).
- Rudiger Ahrend - Spatial Governance
- Roberta Capello - Agglomeration Economies: Source of Productivity and Growth
- Peter Gal - Laggards or Leaders? What is holding back of the productivity growth
- Diego Giuliani - Regional analysis: The why and how of spatial econometrics
- Joaquim Oliveira Martins - The OECD Regional Development Policies
- Raquel Ortega-Argilés - Smart Specialisation and Regional Productivity New evidence
Objectives
The ERSA Winter School 2019, in collaboration with the OECD Spatial Productivity Lab, aims to provide PhD Students and young researchers with the very latest advances in regional sciences on the topics of spatial productivity and local development. Both theoretical, empirical and policy analysis research are welcome.
Researching spatial productivity-related challenges in order to support both spatially more inclusive growth and higher aggregate productivity levels in countries is the aim of the OECD Spatial Productivity Lab based in Trento.
The Winter School seeks to encourage close interactions and feedbacks among participants and top senior researchers as well as internationally recognized analysts.
Topics
The Winter School will focus on the generation of productivity gains through space-based policies. This includes economies of agglomeration in cities, mechanisms of regional productivity catching-up, as well as productivity gains that can be achieved by better connecting places, for example through rural-urban linkages.
The ERSA Winter School 2019 will particularly address the interaction between empirical, theoretical and policy analysis within the following topics, which include (but are not limited to):
- Proximity effects and rural-urban linkages
- Entrepreneurship, innovation and regional development
- Urban agglomeration and productivity
- Knowledge business services and the dynamics of industrial clusters
- Social innovation and inclusive growth
- Creativity, culture and urban development
- Social capital, institution and innovation
- Spatial development, growth and innovation
- Spatial dynamics of innovation networks
- Local and cluster-based policies
- Labour mobility, knowledge and innovation
- Regional diversification and growth
Format
The Winter School will be organised in an intense week of lectures with the full day work.
During the morning there will be ex-cathedra lectures that will be offered by invited Professors followed by hands-on training. Lectures will cover a large variety of issues regarding recent advances in theory and applications in Regional Science.
Part of the day will be devoted to the presentations by the participants. An official certificate of participation will be provided to all participants.
Preliminary schedule
Monday, 21 January 2019 PM – Welcome reception, Lectures, and student presentations, cocktail
Tuesday, 22 January 2019 – Lectures and student presentations
Wednesday, 23 January 2019 AM – Lectures and student presentations,
Wednesday, 23 January 2019 PM – Study visit
Thursday, 24 January 2019 – Lectures and student presentations
Friday, 25 January 2019 AM – Lectures and certificate ceremony
Speakers
Speakers
Head of the Economic Research Unit of the Bank of Italy (Trento Branch).
Head of the Economic Analysis, Statistics and Multi-level Governance Section, Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities, OECD, Italy.
Co-Head of the Center for Advanced Studies of Eurac Research Bozen-Bolzano, Italy.
Full professor of Regional Economics at Politecnico of Milan, Italy.
Professor of Economic Policy at the University of Trento
Economist, Economic Department of OECD, Italy
Associate Professor (in economic statistics) at the University of Trento, Italy.
Deputy Director, Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities, OECD, Italy.
Professor and Chair in Regional Economic Development, Birmingham Business School, UK.
head of the Institute of Regional Development at Eurac Research, Italy.
Immediate Past-President of ERSA and Professor of Regional Labour Market Analysis, University of Groningen, The Netherlands.
ERSA Vice-Pressident, Professor and Chair of Urban Economics, Wageningen University, The Netherlands.
Application
Application - Terms and Conditions
ERSA will select participants aiming for a student body of high academic quality as well as a balanced representation of background. The maximum number of participants accepted is 27.
Who should apply?
The ERSA Winter School targets PhD students and junior researchers with less than 10 years of research experience.
How to apply?
Step 1
Applicants are requested to apply for the Winter School via the Winter School Application Portal
First fill in your contact details to create your account on the Winter School Platform and follow the instructions to submit your application. You can save your application as a draft before submitting it.
Applications must be submitted within September 28, 2018 and include (PDF format):
- A one-page summary of the research project students’ aim at presenting during the Winter School.
Step 2
After notification of acceptance and receipt of registration payments, the participants will be asked to upload an updated version of their intended presentation during the Winter school.
Teaching Material and Presentations
The Winter School will be held in Trento, Italy
Organisers
Local Organising Committee
- Rudiger Ahrend, OECD
- Roberto Chizzali, OECD
- Alexander Lembcke, OECD
- Alessandra Proto, OECD
- Alexandra Tsvetkova, OECD
Scientific Committee
- Maria Abreu, University of Cambridge
- Antonio Accetturo, Bank of Italy, Trento
- Roberta Capello, Politecnico of Milan
- Riccardo Crescenzi, London School of Economics
- Paul Elhorst, University of Groningen
- Giuseppe Espa, University of Trento
- Andrea Fracasso, University of Trento
- Katarzyna Kopczewska, University of Warsaw
- Joaquim Oliveira Martins, OECD
- Raquel Ortega Argiles, University of Birmingham
- Guido Pellegrini, Sapienza University of Rome, President of AISRe
- Vicente Royuela Mora, University of Barcelona
- Thomas Streifeneder, EURAC Research
- Mirco Tonin, Free University of Bozen - Bolzano
- Mario Volpe, Ca’ Foscari University, Venice
- Tim Vorley, Sheffield University Management School
Registration
After notification of acceptance, the accepted applicants must register and pay the participation fee to ERSA.
Participants must cover their own travel expenses from their home countries to the Winter School and going home.
Participation fee: €250
The fee includes:
• Accommodation in double room for five nights;
• Lunch, coffee break and dinner throughout the winter school;
• Gala Dinner and excursion.
Venue
University of Trento
Departement of Humanities
Palazzo Paolo Prodi - Room 112
Via Tommaso Gar, 14
38122 Trento, Italy
Contact Us
Contact persons:
Local Organising Committee: Alessandra Proto & Roberto Chizzali
ERSA Office, Tel: +32 (0)10 47 43 62