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The third EPRC webinar of 2023 was held on 26 April (11:00 – 12:00 UK) over Zoom. Iryna Fil Kristensen, Lecturer at the Department of Human Geography of Örebro University, presented on “Leadership and governance challenges in delivering place-based transformation in metropolitan areas”. The presentation was based on a recent paper that considers the unfolding…
The second EPRC webinar of 2023 was held on 29 March (11:00 – 12:00 UK) over Zoom. Josip Mihalic, Director for the Republic of Slovenia’s office for Recovery & Resilience, presented on “Differences in the Implementation of EU Cohesion Policy and the Recovery & Resilience Mechanism”. The focus was on the example of Slovenia, although…
The first EPRC webinar of 2023 was held on January 25th (11:00 – 12:00 UK) over Zoom. Professor Ugo Fratesi, from the Politecnico di Milano, presented his recent co-authored paper on the topic “Administrative Capacity and the Territorial Effects of EU Support to Firms: a two-step analysis”. The aim of the paper was to explore…
The ninth EPRC webinar of 2022, and the third in the new academic year, was held on December 14th (11:00 – 12:00 UK) over Zoom. Professor Alois Humer, from the Department of Geography and Regional Research of the University of Vienna, presented on the topic “The EU’s Rediscovery of ‘Services of General Interest’ in Times…
The eighth EPRC webinar of 2022, and the second in the new academic year, was held on November 16th (11:00 – 12:00 UK) over Zoom. Dr Liliana Fonseca from EPRC, a former Early Career Researcher of the University of Aveiro (PT) and the H2020 Marie Sklodowska Curie Innovative Training Network RUNIN, presented on the topic…
The seventh EPRC webinar of 2022, and the first in the new academic year, was held on October 12th (11:00 – 12:00 UK) over Zoom. Professor Kevin Morgan from Cardiff University presented on the topic “Post-Brexit Regional Policy in Wales”. Professor Morgan argued that post-Brexit regional policy in Wales has been one of the reasons…
Irene McMaster will be speaking at a workshop on how to consolidate and deliver tools for the role of small places and urban areas in the implementation of the European Vision for Rural Areas. Other speakers in the session include Norwegian State Secretary for the Ministry for Local Government and Regional development Kjersti Bjørnstad, Tomas…
The sixth and last EPRC webinar of Spring 2022 was held June 29th (11:00 – 12:00 UK) over Zoom. Dr Jaroslav Koutský – Associate Professor at Jan Evangelista Purkyně University, Czechia – presented on the topic “EU Cohesion Policy in the Czech Republic”. Koutský’s webinar provided a general overview of Cohesion Policy implementation history in…
The fifth EPRC webinar of 2022 was held on June 15th (11:00 – 12:00 UK) over Zoom. Dr Ridvan Cinar – Research Fellow at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences – presented on the topic “Towards an engaged university in the periphery: Innovation, regional development and institutional change”. Cinar argued that the increasing visibility of…
The fourth EPRC webinar of 2022 was held on May 18th (11:00 – 12:00 UK) over Zoom. Dr Evert Meijers – associate professor at Utrecht University, in the Netherlands, and Trustee of the Urban Studies Foundation – presented on the topic “Is regional policy little more than a cloth for the bleeding? Distributive politics in…