The University of Milan-Bicocca (Italy) is offering six fully funded scholarships for the three-year Ph.D. Programme in Urban Studies (URBEUR) at the Department of Sociology and Social Research, starting on November 1, 2026. The doctoral programme is designed to be a benchmark of excellence in urban studies, equipping scholars, researchers, and professionals with a comprehensive and interdisciplinary education. It provides a […]
I would like to inform you that applications are now open for five PhD fellowships in Analysis of Social and Economic Processes at the Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Milano–Bicocca. Further information and the application procedure are available at the following link: https://en.unimib.it/study/doctoral-research-phd-programmes/applying-doctorate/calls-application For more details about the PhD programme, please visit: https://www.asep.unimib.it/home
Andrea Belmartino Università degli Studi di Sassari, Italy RSA Network Research Grant: KIRDSA (2023 and 2025) 2025 RSA Conference Bursary RSA Member since 2019 Contact Andrea via LinkedIn
Professor Nicola Pontarollo University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy 2016 RSA Travel Grant RSA Fellowship (FeRSA) (2018 – present) 2021 RSA Small Grant Scheme on Pandemics, Cities, Regions & Industry Project: Build back better cities for aged people in Europe Nicola Pontarollo is an Associate Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics and Management at […]
dr. Ilaria Mariotti DAStU-Politecnico di Milan, Italy Chair of the RSA Publications Committee, 2026 2025 RSA Policy Expo Grant: FIERE (Fostering Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Rural Europe: Evaluating the Impact of Policy Support through Collaborative Spaces) 2020 Small Grant Scheme on Pandemics, Cities, Regions & Industry: The growth of remote working during the Covid-19 pandemic […]
Professor Simona Iammarino Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI), L’Aquila, Italy and London School of Economics (LSE), UK Member of the RSA Board and Executive group, and Chair of the RSA Journal Committee (2020-2025); Member of the RSA Journal Committee (2017-2025) RSA Research Committee (2017-2021) Co-editor of Regional Studies (2008-2013) Member of the International Editorial Advisory […]
Marco Bellandi University of Florence, Italy 2021 Regional Studies Best Referee Award Local Coordinator 2024 RSA Annual Conference, Florence.
From CSIL, we are pleased to share information about our upcoming Workshop on Counterfactual Impact Evaluation (CIE), which will take place in Milan on 11–13 May 2026. The workshop focuses specifically on the application of counterfactual methods to regional and cohesion policy evaluation, addressing questions that could be very relevant for RSA members: How can […]
Logistics warehouses, hubs, and freight villages are spreading rapidly in European metropolitan peripheral areas. They sustain local economies, but as an adverse effect, they increase traffic, pollution, land consumption, and, sometimes, migrant workers’ exploitation. Policy and planning by public administrators and decisions by private logistics stakeholders have essential and controversial roles in logistics development, which […]
Ugo Fratesi is Full Professor of Regional Economics and Policy at Politecnico di Milano, Italy. From June 2023, he is the Editor in Chief of Spatial Economic Analysis. Previously, for eight years until 2021, he was Editor of main section papers and Book Review Editor of Regional Studies and, for five years until 2012, of […]
Ugo Fratesi is Full Professor of Regional Economics and Policy at Politecnico di Milano, Italy. From June 2023, he is the Editor in Chief of Spatial Economic Analysis. Previously, for eight years until 2021, he was Editor of main section papers and Book Review Editor of Regional Studies and, for five years until 2012, of […]
Ilaria Mariotti is an Associate Professor of Urban and Regional Economics in the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies (DAStU) at the Politecnico di Milano (Italy). She is the author of academic books and articles published in peer-reviewed journals in the fields of urban and regional economics and policy. She has been involved in several […]
Established in 1980 in Milan, CSIL is an independent research and consulting company specialising in applied economic research with specific expertise in regional, industrial, research and innovation policies. CSIL’s experts are driven by the search for hard facts that tell relevant stories and by a genuine passion for understanding growth and innovation processes. Over the […]
Luisa Gagliardi is Assistant Professor at Bocconi University, Department of Management and Technology. Before joining Bocconi she was Assistant Professor at the University of Geneva, School of Social Sciences. Her research focuses on the role of human capital in shaping labor market, innovation and entrepreneurial outcomes. Among others, she studies how individual preferences and constraints relate to career […]
As the main redistributive policy of the European Union – amounting to roughly one third of the EU 7-year budget – cohesion policy offers considerable resources to tackle imbalances among European regions. The need to manage such an amount of public funds in an effective and accountable inevitably brings about specific requirements for evaluation. These […]
Andrea is Assistant Professor of Applied Economics at the Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI) in L’Aquila, Italy. Before joining GSSI, he received his PhD in Economic Geography from the London School of Economics and subsequently served as Assistant Professor of Economic Geography in the Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning of Utrecht University. Andrea’s […]
Anyone with teaching responsibilities will know how difficult it has been to carve out time and space for research during the past year. For early career researchers that has been even more difficult to achieve. However working collaboratively can be one way to keep your research alive, create new connections and the power of networks […]
Simona Iammarino is Professor of Applied Economics at the Department of Economics and Business of the University of Cagliari, Italy; Visiting Professor at the Department of Geography & Environment of the London School of Economics (LSE); member of the Board of the LSE-Cañada Blanch Centre; affiliate faculty member at the Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI) […]
Simona Iammarino is Professor of Applied Economics at the Department of Economics and Business of the University of Cagliari, Italy; Visiting Professor at the Department of Geography & Environment of the London School of Economics (LSE); member of the Board of the LSE-Cañada Blanch Centre; affiliate faculty member at the Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI) […]
Salvatore Perri, Professor of Political Economy, University of Magna Graecia (Catanzaro, Italy). Author contact: perriphdsalvatore@gmail.com The situation Today in Italy, we are experiencing a 10% unemployment rate (about 45% for young people in the southern regions), a relationship debt/GDP close to 136%, an increasing level of poverty and inequalities[1], and a form of stagnation in […]
Balázs György Forman is Associate Professor at Corvinus University of Budapest Department of Economic Geography. In Italy, we would never have expected this. The coronavirus pandemic has brought an extremely profound economic, social and political divorce in Italy. If one sees the Milan or Florence Cathedrals, the Leaning Tower of Pisa and loves the Adriatic […]
The Impact Assessment Office of the Senate of the Italian Republic published the research report “Spending for Growth? 30 years of EU policies for deprived areas: the impact of cohesion in Italy and Europe” made in collaboration with the Italian Association of Regional Science (AISRe) and the Institute for finance and the Local Economy (IFEL) […]
Heike Mayer is professor of economic geography at the University of Bern. She is interested in innovation and entrepreneurship dynamics in peripheral regions. Her current project is funded by the MeRSA grant and she has been conducting field work in peripheral regions in the Italian, Austrian and Swiss Alps. Peripheral regions are more innovative than […]