Place-based Challenge-Led Innovation Conference. Sbarc – Cardiff University (28 March 2023).
Llanelli Local Workshop. ACORE local event in partnership with Carmarthenshire County Council (Date tbc. delayed by Brexit and the SPF).
Local workshop in Tiszaújváros (date tbc. February/March 2023)
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
Title: Challenging the set mining path
Access to the interview:
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
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 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:
Project results were introduced at RC21 Conference ’Sensing the City – Place, People, Power’ July 14-16th 2021, organised by the Antwerp Urban Studies Institute and the Research Committee 21 (RC21) on Sociology of Urban and Regional Development of the International Sociological Association.
The paper presented:
https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/conferences/rc21-conference-2021/programme/
ACORE project went to ’ENRGHI Conference 2021’ June 30th – July 2nd 2021, organised by the University of Groningen, Lancaster University, and the University of Salford.
The paper presented: