The Italian Association of Regional Sciences (A.I.S.Re) announces its XLIII Annual Scientific Conference, a meeting that welcomes contributions from scholars from different disciplines related to regional sciences.

Cities and Regions in transition

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The Italian Regional Science Association (A.I.S.Re), the Italian Section of the Regional Science Association International (RSAI), announces its XLIII Annual Scientific Conference, welcoming contributions from reserchers working on different disciplines in the field of regional science.

The main theme of the XLIII Conference is the post-pandemic transition process involving cities and regions. The pandemic has opened a debate on the future of our territories. Cities and regions are confronted with new challenges and opportunities, which require important transitions.

From an urban perspective, the open question is if the pandemic crisis has in fact triggered slow changes towards more livable cities – in terms of improved transport/environmental/health organization – or, on the contrary, towards cities that will have to revise their relative position and their competitiveness as favoured locations for residential and productive activities, with the risk of broad polarization processes leading to greater fragility.

From a regional perspective, the crisis generated by the pandemic has widened the gap between wealthy and poor areas, between growing and declining places, opening the question on the effectiveness of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP) in relaunching the economy and reabsorbing regional disparities and income inequality.

This happens at a time of great technological transformation. The advent of 4.0 technologies will soon produce opportunities for economic growth and employment development in our territories, generating important challenges, still largely unexplored.

The conference represents an important occasion of discussion on the identification of factors that allow the structural transformation of territories without losing their peculiar characteristics and on policies and governance structures most suitable to start and/or facilitate the transition towards the recovery and the modernity of the country and of its territories.

Besides the main theme, the A.I.S.Re conference is a place for debating the major topics in regional science. Thus, the A.I.S.Re invites all those interested to present original scientific works on the following themes:

1. Governance, regional and territorial public policies, European programming
2. Growth, decline, and regional disparities
3. Globalization, value chains and local production systems
4. Methods of territorial analysis and spatial econometrics
5. Labor, welfare, personal services and social policies
6. Tourism, culture and local development
7. Urban planning, real estate market and city development processes
8. Infrastructure, transport, mobility and local development
9. Wellbeing, sustainability, and local development
10. Urban development and agglomeration economies
11. Development and local entrepreneurship
12. Innovation, creativity and local development
13. Policy evaluation methods

HOW TO JOIN THE ASSOCIATION/CONFERENCE AND REGISTRATION FEES

There are two ways to participate in the Conference:

• with organized sessions. Participants can propose themselves as session organizers (no more than two sessions per organizer) on specific themes. The proposal can be submitted directly from the login area of the website, by entering the name of the scientific manager, the session title and the tentative number of presentations.  The deadline for the submission (is January 16 2022) has been postponed to Jannuary 23, 2022.
• with individual papers or posters. Those interested should submit an abstract by March 11, 2022 (February 27  postponed), directly from the login area of the website. Posters presentations are subject to the same procedure as for papers. In this case, the abstract should include in the title “poster mode”. The deadline for the submission of the abstract is March 11, 2022 (February 27  postponed). The detailed instructions for presenting authors on the editing of papers and posters are available at the conference website (link).

IMPORTANT DEADLINES

AWARDS

To promote the dissemination of Regional Science among young scholars, AISRe will assign the following awards:

• PhD. Dissertation Awards
• Best paper presented by a young scholar Award
• Best poster Award

The instructions for application are published in a dedicated call available in the Awards section.

HOW TO JOIN THE ASSOCIATION

Conference and Association fees can be paid through the Association’s website (link). To register for the conference as an author or co-author of a paper, it is also required to register to the Association as a Member (Individual, Collective or Young).

AISRe members receive: a subscription to Scienze Regionali (Italian Journal of Regional Science) for the following calendar year (www.rivistasr.it/); the volumes of the Regional Science Series (FrancoAngeli) published during the business year and the AISRe E-book (Donzelli), the registration to the Regional Science Association International (RSAI), which includes an online subscription to the journal Papers in Regional Science for the following calendar year the opportunity to pay a reduced fee at the Annual Conferences of the International Associations European Regional Science Association (ERSA) (www.ersa.org/) and of the Regional Science Association International (RSAI) (www.regionalscience.org/). Young scholars have also the opportunity to participate to the Summer/Winter Schools of Aisre.

Under the patronage of  

Local Organizing Committee, Department ABC, Politecnico di Milano

Roberta Capello, Committee coordinator
Andrea Caragliu, International relations
Silvia Cerisola, Welcome and reception
Ugo Fratesi, Relations with local authorities
Camilla Lenzi, Conference finance
Giovanni Perucca, Logistics
Pietro Corsi
Roberto Dellisanti
Elisa Panzera

Scientific Committee

Sandro Balducci, DAStU, Politecnico di Milano
Cristina Bernini, University of Bologna
Massimo Bricocoli, DAStU, Politecnico di Milano
Giulio Cainelli, University of Padua
Roberto Camagni, Emerito Politecnico di Milano
Roberta Capello, ABC, Politecnico di Milano
Stefano Capolongo, ABC, Politecnico di Milano
Andrea Conte, JRC, Seville
Daniela Constantin, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania
Stefano Della Torre, ABC, Politecnico di Milano
Alessandra Faggian, GSSI, L’Aquila
Emilio Faroldi, ABC, Politecnico di Milano
Eduardo Haddad, University of San Paolo, Brasil
Lili Kiminami, University of Nigata, Japan
Janet Kohlhase, University of Texas, USA
Donato Iacobucci, Università Politecnica delle Marche
Patrizia Lattarulo, IRPeT, Florence
Fabio Mazzola, University of Palermo
Rosella Nicolini, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
Peter Nijkamp, University of Iasi, Romania
Raffaele Paci, University of Cagliari
Gabriele Pasqui, DAStU, Politecnico di Milano
Guido Pellegrini, University La Sapienza of Rome
Lanfranco Senn, Emeritus at the Bocconi University
John Sporing, Bureau of Economic Analysis, USA
André Torre, Agro-Paristech, INRA, Francia
Isabelle Thomas, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Frank van Oort, Erasmus University of Rotterdam, Netherlands

Promoting Committee

Luca Barbarito, IULM, Milan
Cristina Boniotti, ABC, Politecnico di Milano
Alberto Bramanti, Bocconi University
Stefano Breschi, Bocconi University
Alberto Brugnoli, University of Bergamo
Andrea Ciaramella, ABC, Politecnico di Milano
Stefano Colombo, Università Cattolica, Milan
Stefano Di Vita, DAStU, Politecnico di Milano
Chiara Del Bo, University of Milan
Valeria Fedeli, DAStU, Politecnico di Milano
Massimo Florio, University of Milan
Luca Gaeta, DAStU, Politecnico di Milano
Elena Maggi, University of Insubria, Varese
Ilaria Mariotti, DAStU, Politecnico di Milano
Gianmaria Martini, University of Bergamo
Elena Mussinelli, ABC, Politecnico di Milano
Alessandra Oppio, DAStU, Politecnico di Milano
Tomaso Pompili, Milano Bicocca University
Nicola Pontarollo, University of Brescia
Roberta Rabellotti, University of Pavia
Laura Resmini, Milano Bicocca University
Paolo Rizzi, Università Cattolica, Milan
Federica Rossi, DAStU, Politecnico di Milano
Marco Scaioni, ABC, Politecnico di Milano
Chiara Tagliaro, ABC, Politecnico di Milano
Cinzia Talamo, ABC, Politecnico di Milano
Sergio Vergalli, University of Brescia
Andrea Vezzulli, University of Insubria, Varese

Executive Board AISRe

Cristina Bernini, AISRe, University of Bologna
Roberta Capello, Politecnico di Milano
Marusca De Castris, Università Roma Tre
Alessandra Faggian, GSSI, L’Aquila
Laura Fregolent, University IUAV of Venice
Patrizia Lattarulo, IRPeT, Florence
Ilaria Mariotti, Politecnico di Milano
Rosanna Nisticò, University of Calabria
Andrea Omizzolo, Eurac Research Centre, Bozen
Guido Pellegrini, University La Sapienza of Rome
Giovanni Perucca, Politecnico di Milano
Davide Piacentino, University of Palermo
Vincenzo Provenzano, University of Palermo
Elena Ragazzi, IRCrES – CNR
Francesca Silvia Rota, IRCrES – CNR
Domenico Scalera, University of Sannio
Annalisa Caloffi, University of Florence
Silvia Cerisola, Politecnico di Milano
Carlo Ciccarelli, University of Roma Tor Vergata

Venue of the Conference

Politecnico di Milano, Campus Leonardo, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, Milano

Treasury AISRe

Marusca De Castris, Università degli Studi Roma Tre
Via Edoardo Bonardi 3, 20133 Milano
tesoreria@aisre.it

Technical Secretary A.I.S.Re

Silvia Emili e Diana Sarmiento, segreteria.tecnica@aisre.it