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Our colleague, ACORE project team member Jan Píša defended his PhD thesis!
Title: ‘Agents of change in old industrial towns in northwest Czechia’
PhD program: ’Applied Economics and Public Administration’, Faculty of Social and Economic Studies, J. E. Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem
Access to faculty news: https://www.facebook.com/FSE.UJEP
Our colleague, Linda Stihl was interviewed in the TV program ‘Coffee break with researchers’
Title: Challenging the set mining path
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The ACORE project results were presented at the 2022 RSA Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) Conference ’ Bridging Old and New Divides: Global Dynamics & Regional Transformations’ in Leipzig (14-17th September 2022)
Sessions organised by the project team:
SS16. Human Agency and Capacity to Act for Regional Development and Sustainability
https://events.rdmobile.com/Sessions/Details/1497750
SS14. Agents of Change in Old Industrial Regions of Europe
https://events.rdmobile.com/Lists/Details/1497753
SS12. Agency and Regional Development in a Changing World
https://events.rdmobile.com/Sessions/Details/1497852
SS17. Roundtable Discussion: Lessons Learnt on Methodology Within the ACORE Project
https://events.rdmobile.com/Sessions/Details/1497865
Papers presented:
Franziska Görmar: Regional SPHERES – Cooperative Transformative Governance Processes in Old-Industrial Regions of Central and Eastern Europe
Franziska Görmar: Narratives and Local Development: A Comparative Study of Zeitz and Lauchhammer in Germany
Melinda Mihály: Peripheralization, Political Discontent, and Social and Solidarity Economy—Case Studies From Rural Hungary and Germany
Melinda Mihály, Erika Nagy: Reindustrialization and the Limits of Local Agency in the European (Semi)Periphery: The Environmental ‘Externalities’ of Path Change
Jan Píša, Vladan Hruska: Disentangling the ‘Capacity to act’: Social and Cultural Capital of Agents of Change in old Industrial Regions
Jan Píša: Change Agency in Old Industrial Towns of Czechia: Towards an Individual Scale of Local Development
Ani Saunders: A New Path and Paradigm for Development in Old-Industrial Regions in Wales: The Rise of the Well-Being Narrative
Linda Stihl: Spinning Forward and Digging Deeper: Agency and Changing Institutions in Old Industrial Regions
The ACORE project goes to the RSA CEE conference ’ Bridging Old and New Divides: Global Dynamics & Regional Transformations’ in Leipzig, 14.09. – 16.09.2022
We aim to deliver the results of our 4-year project focused on ’Agents of change in old industrial regions’ and open up a discussion on agency, regional development, the multiple paths and dilemmas of recovery in industrial regions moreover, share our thoughts on the relevance of powerful concepts and combined methodologies in non-metropolitan, non-core, (post)industrial contexts.
Please, join us in the sessions organised by the project partners!
SS12. Agency and Regional Development in a Changing World (open session)
Session organisers: Markus Grillitsch, Lund University, Sweden; Linda Stihl, Lund University, Sweden
SS14. Agents of Change in Old Industrial Regions of Europe (closed session)
Session organisers: Nadir Kinossian, Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, Leipzig, Germany; Ani Saunders, Cardiff University, UK; Linda Stihl, Lund University, Sweden
SS15. Beyond Centralism v Localism: Local agency in the Multilevel Polity (open session)
Session organisers: Erika Nagy, Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, Hungary; Kevin Morgan, Cardiff University, UK; Ani Saunders, Cardiff University, UK
SS16. Human agency and capacity to act for regional development and sustainability (open session)
Session organisers: Vladan Hruška, Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic; Melinda Mihály, Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, Békéscsaba, Hungary; Jan Píša, Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic
SS17. Roundtable discussion: lessons learnt on methodology within the ACORE project (closed session)
Session organisers: Erika Nagy, Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, Békéscsaba, Hungary; Melinda Mihály, Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, Békéscsaba, Hungary
For further details please, go to the conference website:
https://www.regionalstudies.org/news/2022-rsa-cee-special-sessions/#
ACORE project meeting in Ustí nad Labem
Finally, after lifting the pandemic-related limitations on public events, project partners could come together! The meeting took place at Jan Evangelista Purkyně University, 27-28. 04. 2022.
For the program see: Program_ACORE_Meeting_Ustí
Regions in Recovery Second Edition 2022 online event series (21st March – 1st April 2022)
Project partners contributed to Regional Studies Association Regions in Recovery Second Edition 2022 online event series (21st March – 1st April 2022)
Special session ’Agents of change in old industrial regions’s (open session, 03.25. 9.00-11.00) https://events.rdmobile.com/Sessions/Details/1317182
Papers presented by ACORE partners:
- Agents of change in old industrial regions of Europe by Nadir Kinossian, Melinda Mihály, Jan Píša, Linda Stihl, Ani Saunders
- And an Agent of Change was Born… On the Role of Public Sector in Creation of Leaders in old Industrial Regions, by Jan Písa, Vladan Hruska
- Investigating Change Agency Events – Towards a Research Agenda, by Markus Grillitsch, Josephine Rekers, et al.
Local policy workshop in Tatabánya
The first local policy workshop was organised by the Hungarian team on the 24th of February, 2022. The event was online and mobilized 22 participants including researchers, municipal officials and local NGOs.
The first session was focused on discussing the macro-context of local problems, such as industrial policy, environmental regulations, labour processes, social problems and housing crisis related to reindustrialization. In the second round, there was an open and lively discussion on local conflicts related to housing shortage and marginalization, old and new environmental conflicts moreover, to the unequal access to public services, and the limits of local community building.
The third round was organised thematically in chat rooms to identify agents, their resources, conflicts and cooperative actions in managing the social crisis and vast environmental problems. Working in small groups supported openness, connecting and discovering how networks could fill capacity gaps of various institutional agents.
Volkswagen Foundation Symposium on ‘Challenges for Europe’
ACORE project progress was introduced at Volkswagen Foundation Symposium on ‘Challenges for Europe’ July 9-20th 2021, Hanover, by N. Kinossian and V. Hruska (‘Agents of change in old industrial regions’) The discussion was contributed by Ani Saunders’ video on challenges of doing research in pandemic times.
Have a look at the presentation of project progress here:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1meJQY-uOIQtceNQWHgo6opV83wZLd4drVpBtiLxY2jg/edit?usp=sharing
The access to the video: