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 SIZED TOWNS

4th and 5th December 2008, Faro, Portugal

The conference focuses on the possible contribution of towns to rural development by acting as a place of knowledge creation and diffusion in order to avoid processes of decline and promote a geographically balanced and sustainable development in rural areas.

An important question related to this is how to take advantage of the potential of towns and rural areas and how to increase their competitiveness, encouraging their advantages over more urbanized areas.

Important issues are, for example, the challenges created by learning and knowledge diffusion in towns and rural areas, the potential of towns in bottom-up policies such as the LEADER+ approach, the importance of knowledge in rural areas and the function of towns in rural-urban (knowledge) networks.

For this conference, 6 different fields of interest are defined:

1) Networks and Public-Private Partnerships

2) Local Entrepreneurship and Globalization

3) Technological Developments, Innovation and Knowledge Spill-overs

4) Urban-rural Interdependencies

5) Citizenship and Governance Models

6) Future Trends for Knowledge Creation and Diffusion

Confirmed Keynote speakers

Peter Nijkamp - the impact of the urban systems in sustainable development

Charlie Karlsson - in a global economy, do entrepreneurial activities differ with town size?

Helen Lawton Smith - technological transfer in a perspective of town dimension

Lois Labrianidis - the role of the rural world in a networking context

Antonio Vazquez Barquero - citizenship and associations towards development

Teresa de Noronha Vaz - future trends with futurism; Round table

Key Dates

Refereed papers

Paper submission: 15 October

Referee process finished by: 15 November

Non refereed papers and posters

Abstract submission by: 30 October

Acceptance of abstracts: 15 November

Paper submission: 30 November

Inscription Fees

Reduced inscription fee

Early payments, until October 30: 300 Euros

50% reduction on the early the payment for CIEO members and students

50% reduction on the early payment for citizens from: Eastern European or African countries, India, Pakistan, China.

Late inscription fee

After 1 November: 400 Euros

50% reduction fro CIEO members and students

Registration Form is available at:

http://www.cieo.ualg.pt/downloads/noticias/9/Smalltowns_%20inscription%20form_ing.pdf

Organisation and Contacts

University of Algarve

CIEO – CENTRO DE INVESTIGAÇÃO SOBRE O ESPAÇO E AS ORGANIZAÇÕES
cieo@ualg.pt

www.cieo.ualg.pt
Tel: 00351 289800900 (extn7189)