The Heidelberg Center for Ibero-American Studies (HCIAS), Germany, together with the Heidelberg Center Latin America (HCLA) in Santiago de Chile, is inviting young scholars to apply for one of three scholarships to pursue a doctorate in interdisciplinary Ibero-American Studies at Heidelberg University. These scholarships are to be granted by the Landesgraduiertenförderungsprogramm of the State of […]
International Summer School Critical Junctures and Windows of Opportunity for (Post-) Pandemic Societies in Europe and Latin America – JUNCTURES 2022 JUNCTURES_2022 is organized by the Heidelberg Center for Ibero-American Studies (HCIAS) of Heidelberg University in cooperation with the Heidelberg Center Latin America in Santiago de Chile (HCLA), Chile. The organization and planning of JUNCTURES_2022 […]
We would love to draw your attention to a new MA program in “Comparative Democracy“ at Goethe University in Frankfurt. It is a 2-year, fully English-language, research-focused program in comparative politics. Goethe University hosts one of the largest social science departments in Europe, so we can offer a broad and interesting program. Arguably, Frankfurt also […]
Our international MA programme, the Master of Public Policy and Social Change (MPPSC) here at the University of Tübingen is open for applications and we would appreciate it if you could recommend the programme to any promising students. This interdisciplinary programme is a joint venture between our Political Science and Sociology Departments and it’s fully […]
Senior Researcher Please distribute this announcement to colleagues in your field who may be interested. We would be grateful if you would share it on social media and your website. Thank you. The Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies (MPIfG) in Cologne is seeking a Senior Researcher in the Field of Wealth Research […]
Please consider spreading this call for six 3-year postdocs in Germany. Several of the positions are connected to critical geography and we are many geographers here at Helmholtz-Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity (HIFMB) in Marine Political Ecology and Marine Governance research groups. These are also interdisciplinary positions, so open very broadly to a variety of training. HIFMB Integrative Postdoc Pool (HIPP): Call […]
The University of Tübingen is one of Europe’s oldest and most prestigious research universities. The Research Unit Comparative Public Policyat the Institute of Political Science of the University of Tübingen invites applications for a Post-doctoral Researcher / Fixed-term Lecturer Post (d/f/m) (German public sector pay scheme 13 TV-L) for the duration of 2 years from 1 […]
Nadir Kinossian is Senior Researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography in Leipzig, Germany. His research interests include territorial development, multilevel governance, cultural landscapes, and the post-socialist city. Recently, he has been working on the agentic and institutional aspects of change in old industrial regions in Europe and Russia. Currently, he is the Project […]
His prime scientific interests are within the fields of spatial planning instruments such as strategic spatial planning and place branding. His research involves also economic geography concepts and the embedding of these in evolutionary governance systems. His current research focuses on analyzing the effectiveness of strategic spatial planning instruments in supporting the social and economic […]
Spatial Foresight is a private consultancy and independent think tank in the area of European territorial policies and research. Most importantly, it is a multi-national and interdisciplinary team. It has its main office in Heisdorf (Luxembourg) and branch offices in Berlin (Germany) and Paris (France). The fields of activity bring together territorial development and policy […]
This article first appeared on ROBUST’s website and has been re-blogged with permission from the authors. Modern lives are increasingly multilocal – but rural-urban policies are often yet to catch up. ROBUST’s Bryonny Goodwin-Hawkins, Ulla Ovaska and Theresia Oedl-Wieser reflect on what we know about multilocality, and what we should rethink as rural regions look ahead to futures beyond recovery. […]
Eduardo Oliveira is a Post-Doctoral Research Associate (with the aim of Habilitation) at the Economic Geography Working Group of the Department of Geography at Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany. He teaches evolutionary economic geography and the interlinkage between sustainability principles and economic geography paradigms. His prime scientific interests are within the fields of spatial planning instruments […]
Name of event: KOSMOS Conference – Navigating the Sustainability Transformation in the 21st Century, Humboldt University Berlin The RSA Travel Grant allowed me to attend the KOSMOS Sustainability Conference in Berlin, where I presented a paper and also participated in a cutting-edge public conference format displaying some of my PhD work on low-carbon energy transitions. […]
Suntje Schmidt, Assistant Professor of Applied Economic Geography at the Humboldt University in Berlin, is the RSA Ambassador to Germany. “I am a researcher at the Leibniz-Institute for Research on Society and Space (IRS, Department: Dynamics of Economic Spaces) as well as the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Junior Professor for Applied Economic Geography). Regions have always […]
A system of financial transfer payments is employed in the Federal Republic of Germany as a means of compensating for substantial differences in the financial power of the federal states (Länder). For the year 2012, only three federal states, all located in southern Germany were net contributors while the remaining thirteen states were net recipients […]
The 2012 Regional Studies Association Early Career Conference took place on 1st and 2nd November at Hafen City University in Hamburg. The conference under the title of Times of Change: Future Directions in Geography, Urban and Regional Studies examined the implications of the current economic and financial crisis for future of regional studies. Individual sessions covered a wide range […]
Commencing operation in 2021, a new tunnel will provide the final piece in the jigsaw linking the city of Hamburg in Germany to Copenhagen in Denmark and Malmö in Sweden which together form the STRING region. This fixed link will complement the existing bridge crossing the Öresund strait between Denmark and Sweden which opened to […]