ESPON UK Contact Point Bulletin 2 – February 2008

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ON THE FIRST CALL
Are you considering a proposal? Do you have a burning question you would like Cliff Hague to raise for you with the ESPON management unit at a Q&A session in Luxembourg on 26 February? Contact us at research@rtpi.org.uk by Friday 22 February.

LOOKING FOR PARTNERS
The ESPON UK Contact Point has been approached by the following researchers and organisations who are looking for potential partners for ESPON:

Dimitrie Cantemir University, Romania
Contact: Mihai Voda, mmvoda@yahoo.com
Special Interest: Climate Change

Center for Regional Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Contact: Gyorgyi Barta: fenyvesi@rkkmta.hu
Special Interests:
• The possibilities, mechanisms, and challenges of integrating multinational R&D capacities into local urban environments.
• Pole development (R&D-university-industry relations) in large urban centers.
• The growing importance of creative industries in generating new networks of international cooperation among large urban centers.

Mendel University of Agriculture and Forestry, Brno, Czech Republic
Institute of Applied and Landscape Ecology
Contact: Antonín Vaishar: antonin.vaishar@uake.cz
Special interests: Rural development, landscape and rural settlement

Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
Urban and Regional Laboratory (URRlab)
Contact: RNDr. Jana Temelová: janatem@natur.cuni.cz
Special interests include:
• cities and urban agglomerations;
• urban studies;
• differentiation and social-spatial structure;
• social cohesion and participation;
• migration and spatial mobility;
• regional development and regional policy;
• territorial impact assessment.

University of Economics, Prague
Department of Regional Studies
Contact: Milan Damborský: mdamborsky@centrum.cz
Special interests:
• Cities and urban agglomerations: their functionality and development opportunities for European competitiveness and cohesion
• Demographic and migratory flows affecting European regions and cities
• Territorial impact assessment of policies

University of Economics in Prague
Institute for Economic and Environmental Policy
Contact: ieep@ieep.cz
Special interests:
• Cross-thematic and thematic analysis (defining territorial potentials and challenges),including studies of territorial trends and prospective studies.
• Territorial impact studies of EU policies.
• Territorial development and the competitiveness of regions, urban and rural
• territories.
• Territorial cooperation.

Institute of Urban Development,Cracow, Poland
Contact person: Filip Skawiñski: zmpu.fs@irm.krakow.pl
Special interests:
• Cities and urban agglomerations
• Development opportunities in different types of rural areas
• Territorial impact assessment of policies

Manchester Enterprises
Contact: Maria Gonzalez, maria.gonzalez@manchester-enterprises.co.uk
Special Interests: Cities and Urban agglomeration: economic analysis, economic development strategy formulation and implementation.

CONTACT US
To contact the ESPON UK Contact Point team, Cliff Hague and Jenny Crawford, e-mail research@rtpi.org.uk

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Date:

21-Apr-08

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