BIRDHub informs
(14/10/2014)
24th May, 2015 - 27th May, 2015Regional Studies Association Annual Conference 2015
Global Growth Agendas: Regions, Institutions and Sustainability - Piacenza, Italy
31st August, 2015 - 2nd September, 2015Regional Studies Association Inaugural Australasian Conference
Rethinking the Region & Regionalism in Australasia: Challenges & Opportunities for the 21st Century
12th October, 2015 -... more
(22/09/2014)
Friday, September 26 at 18.00, the next „Science Cafe” curated by University of Latvia and Society „Baltic Interregional Development Hub” will be held at cafe of University of Latvia at 19 Raiņa Boulevard. The following theme will be discussed this time: „Civic engagement and Public participation – What drives people?” At „Science Cafe” several scientists and specialists in different areas will... more
(04/08/2014)
Date and location: 27th - 28th November, 2014, Holiday Inn London Bloomsbury, UKAbstract submission date: 18th August 2014Full paper submission date: 6th October 2014
This conference provides a platform on which to address the new economic order and its spatial manifestations. The world has seen a series of shifts in socio-economic relations over the past decade, which has picked up pace since... more
(15/07/2014)
The Regional Studies Association encourages submissions of abstracts to the annual Early Career conference, to be held in University of Sheffield, UK from 30th to 31st October 2014. This conference will provide early career researchers with the opportunity to network, collaborate and socialise with others working in regional studies and science.
The objective of the conference is bring together... more
(10/07/2014)
The European Week of Regions and Cities in Brussels is the annual four-day event is an inter-institutional platform for political communication, a means of capacity-building for regional and local stakeholders, and facilitates communication on EU affairs at local level. OPEN DAYS makes use of important moments in the EU agenda to get the message across to EU decision makers regions and cities... more
(14/05/2014)
The Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy has just published a brand new comic book (EN, PDF) called "Partners" which aims at presenting Regional and Urban Policy through six stories designed to appeal to a young audience.
The themes covered in this album are Research & Innovation, Urban Development, Environment, Support to SMEs, Social Inclusion, ICT, Cooperation between regions... more
(09/04/2014)
The Committee of the Regions (CoR) on 3rd of April adopted the Charter for Multilevel Governance in Europe. Europe Day, 9 May 2014, will mark the launch of the campaign to acquire signatures to the Charter.
The Charter urges public authorities to make a political commitment to implementing the values, principles and mechanisms of multilevel governance. By signing up to the Charter, towns and... more
(10/02/2014)
Source: European Commission, Territorial Cohesion Policy (COTER)
(20/12/2013)
The European Citizen Action Service has released a paper: ‘Economic governance: public consultations during the crises. It examined the role of public consultations in the decisions made by the European Union in its initial response to the financial and economic crisis. This paper showed there has been an on-going issue with the vast majority of economic consultation documents being available... more
(22/11/2013)
BIRDhub participates in the RSA Research Network “The impact of global economic crisis on capital cities” and co-organizes the seminar on 13th December in Riga. Extended deadline for abstract submission: Sunday, 25th November, 2013.
See: Call for papers
Seminar is co-financed by Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway.