The AISRe Conference, which will be held in Milan from 5 to 7 September 2022, offers a rich programme with over 500 contributions, distributed in organised and spontaneous Sessions, two Plenary Sessions and numerous Round Tables.

As a preview, we present some of the sessions that will feature important national and international speakers and to which others will be added.

First Plenary Session
Global Challenges and Local Responses
Chair: Roberta Capello, Politecnico di Milano

• Measuring the Digital Transformation. The evolution of the digital ecosystem across countries and regions
  Giuditta De Prato, JRC / B6, Seville
• Inequalities and the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy
  Andrea Brandolini, Banca d’Italia, Rome
• Territorial Mapping of EU Funding Programmes in a period of major structural changes
  Andrea Conte, JRC / B7, Seville
• Regional challenges, convergence and cohesion policy
  Roman Römisch, WiiW, Vienna

Lecture Pirs 
Presiede Rosella Nicolini, Editor-in-Chief, Papers in Regional Science

From Social Capital to Social Network Analysis: Incorporating Networks Into Regional Analyses of Entrepreneurship
Tessa Conroy, Wisconsin University

Second Plenary Session – Lecture SR
On the impact of working from home on cities
Jacques-François Thisse, Catholic University of Louvain

Regional science: 20 years of publications – Round table
Is it worth publishing in a national review? Comparing experiences in regional science

• Scienze Regionali (AISRe)
  Laura Resmini (Editor), Marco Mariani (Editor-in-chief)
• Journal of Regional Research – Investigaciones Regionales (Spanish Section of RSAI)
  Vicente Royuela Mora (Editor)
• Review of Regional Research (German speaking Section of RSAI)
  Michaela Backman (Editor)
• Romanian Journal of Regional Science (Romanian Section of RSAI)
  Daniela-Luminita Constantin (Editor)
• Revista Brasileira de Estudos Regionais e Urbanos / Brazilian Review of Regional Studies
  Eduardo Haddad, (member of the editorial board, president RSAI)

Tavola rotonda sull’E-book AISRe
PNRR Italia. Il difficile equilibrio tra i territori
Coordinator Domenico Scalera, University of Sannio, Benevento
Participants

• Giancarlo Corò, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
• Marusca De Castris, Roma Tre University
• Rosanna Nisticò, University of Calabria
• Angela Bergantino, University of Bari
• Patrizia Lattarulo, IRPET

Discussants

• Salvatore Capasso, Parthenope University of Naples
• Ugo Fratesi, Polytechnic of Milan
• (in definition), Lombardy Regional Council