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For one week this April, Kecskemét and John von Neumann University will literally become the centre of the scientific world. The 14th World Congress of the Regional Science Association International (RSAI) in Kecskemét has so far attracted more than 390 speakers from 50 countries around the world. Most of the professional participants will arrive from China, but the representation is also strong from Italy, Romania, Japan, the United States of America, Spain, Brazil and Turkey. It is a truly global event, with North and South America, Africa, the Arab world, Europe, Asia, India, Australia and even the Pacific Islands represented. In total, academics from 173 universities around the world will be visiting at John von Neumann University in April 2024 – from 5 of the world's TOP 10 universities and 11 of the TOP 20. The outstanding scientific programme of the year in Kecskemét, the motto of the 14th RSAI World Congress, is "Sustainable regional economic growth: global challenges and new regional development paths". Regional science is a modern spatial science that investigates the role that space plays in a wide variety of economic, social and power-governance processes. It is a basic premise of regional science that no two settlements or regions are alike and that spatial differences are therefore a most natural phenomenon. The economic and social phenomena observed in many regions give rise to territorial disparities. This can be seen in the decisions of households, businesses or even government institutions. Inequalities, the emergence and persistence of underdeveloped regions and the rise of wealthy regions and cities are often the result of long, sustained processes. During the conference, the participants will get to know the sights of the city, experience our hospitality and take part in various cultural activities. They will spread the word about the city and the spirit of its people around the world. By taking an approach that looks at the concrete practical impacts of economic, social science, political and technological change on the ground, the dynamically developing Kecskemét and its region can benefit greatly from the visit of the science experts in April. The international attention and the relationships that will be built will help the city, as a municipality with a unique model of economic cooperation and governance, to achieve social and scientific focus, economic partnerships - and even further investment. Kecskemét, as a rapidly developing Hungarian city and region, can also benefit from hosting prestigious international events in general, but in terms of regional science, the topic has a lot of concrete potential, as regional science has a history of almost eight decades. The RSAI has over 4,000 expert members worldwide, with a network spanning the globe. For more information on the conference, please visit our website at: https://lnkd.in/diPK2UZq

"Time to ReThink" will be the theme for the 9th Edition of Estoril Conferences - A Future of Hope 2024 to be held on the 24 and 25th of October at Nova School of Business and Economics in Carcavelos, Cascais | Portugal. In a transformative period in history, marked by significant shifts and challenges where wars and armed conflicts are on the rise, it is imperative that we reevaluate our thoughts and actions and come together to address these pressing issues collectively. In a unique co-organization with Nova School of Business and Economics , NOVA Medical School - Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, Câmara Municipal de Cascais, Turismo de Cascais and for the first time also with prestigious Digital Data Design (D^3) Institute at Harvard, we will bring you an impactful dialogue on the current situation of the world. Stay tuned for more exciting updates on the agenda and renowed speakers! Save The Date | 24 and 25th of October! #TimeToReThink #ReThink #future #act #youth #peace #policies #planet #longevity #AI #Tech #estorilconferences #novasbe #nms #D3Harvard #cascais

{please share with your networks, especially to our Cook Islands scholars} CALL FOR PAPERS: Special Issue for Pacific Dynamics: Journal of Interdisciplinary Research Theme: 'Tīvaevae: connection, collaboration and new directions in Cook Islands research' This Special Issue explores the development of Tīvaevae, from cultural artefact to research method, to a theoretical paradigm that continues to inspire and challenge contemporary Cook Islands’ research discourses. For this Special Issue of Pacific Dynamics, we invite submissions that: > review the development of the Tīvaevae method/ology over time, > critically analyse the use of Tīvaevae as a research method/ology, > introduce the application of the Tīvaevae method/ology within various research contexts, and/or > discuss the scope of the Tīvaevae method/ology and its potential to both transform, and be transformed, by future research. We welcome submissions from all peoples including academics and community stakeholders, emerging student researchers and tenured professors. This Special Issue offers a generative space for meaningful critique and the ongoing celebration of Cook Islands’ culture within contemporary research, with the aim of reflecting upon, mapping, and future-proofing the Tīvaevae as part of the Cook Islands’ ongoing intellectual heritage. Abstract submissions of 250 words (excluding references) are due on Friday 22 March 2024. Please include the contributing author details and affiliations. Email your submissions in a Word file (.doc) to guest editors Dr Emma Powell (emma.powell@otago.ac.nz) and Mr Cam Young (cameron.young@otago.ac.nz). Applicants will be contacted by the end of the month with the outcome. Expected publication of the Special Issue is March 2025. Meitaki ma'ata a kia manuia.

𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗽𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲? This week I'm at a scientific conference on Cyprus. Or two, actually: #philos24 and #pros24. There I presented 2 papers: • At philos (philosophy in organization studies), I presented a paper on #power  in processes of sensemaking from a Foucauldian perspective. Although Foucault has been quoted many times in organization studies, my point is that most studies present a simplified version of Foucault's complex thinking on power (as an ubiquitous force from which no escape is possible) • At pros (process thinking in organization studies), I presented a paper on Garfinkel's view on #sensemaking. I believe that returning to this original source (from which Weick took his initial idea of sensemaking) may solve some of the issues in the dominant perspective on sensemaking in organization and management studies. Both papers are taken from my phd on sensemaking. As a self-employed consultant and trainer, I'm a bit of an outsider in this community of (mostly) professional researchers. This gives me the opportunity to observe this community outside its normal habitat (the university). Which is not only interesting from a scientific perspective, but also from a personal perspective: • Do I want to be part of this community? • Should I stay a relative outsider? • Or can I combine both positions and get the best of both worlds? I believe that practitioners in organizations could benefit much more from the insights of the cool research that is done in these scientific communities. Or, to put it negatively: many of the ideas with which people organize are outdated (for instance the idea of power as a position). But how do we get these insights to these practitioners? I'd love to be a bridge between both worlds. PS: Although Cyprus sounds like a nice place to have a conference, it is actually hard work 😰 The temperatures outside makes it hardly possible to think clearly. And inside the conference rooms it is dark and air-conditioned cold. But I'm not complaining: someone has to do it! 😉 PPS: if you're interested in my PhD on sensemaking: let me know.

I am in Pontevedra for the 10th International Degrowth Conference (together with the European Society of Ecological Economics). Already 10 international conferences, since Paris in 2008, and Barcelona, Venezia, Leipzig, Budapest, Malmö, Manchester, The Hague, and Zagreb last year. We can also mention the regional ones like Montreal and Mexico City (North-South dialogue on Degrowth) and also the ones at the EU Parliaments in 2018 and last year follow by such events in national parliament (in Austria, Italy, Ireland and France in the autumn). Next year we will be in Olso... See more: https://lnkd.in/dS6pkcFx Degrowth has become a well-established movement (300 groups, 1500 academic papers, 550 books, thousands of articles, 50 educational programs...). See the Degrowth database here: https://lnkd.in/dwJFf8BH Thanks to the International Degrowth Network who had a successful Assembly yesterday. Degrowth which started in France in 2002 was first more an activist, political and practitioner movement. It also started with closed connexions with Global Souths through the 2002 Unesco Conference: deconstruct development, rebuild the world. Nowadays, it is more dominated by academics, let's find a better a balance as all the dimensions are important. So, for 2026 conference, we would like to organise something less academic, like a social Forum: a large international and historic event gathering all the degrowth networks and friends, in particular from global Souths. Let's start to brainstorm about where and how we could organise it! Conferencia Internacional ESEE-Decrecemento 2024 Pontevedra

🌍 Just attended and spoke at the Young Königswinter Alumni Conference 2024 at Goethe Institute London, an event that brings together people from business, politics, academia and other sectors from Germany and the UK to foster close relationships, especially post-Brexit. 🌟 The organising committee has put together an incredibly exciting event. Many thanks in particular to Dr. Birgit Bujard and Hannes Christoph Bächle for involving me! The event also came with a particular joy – a session with remarks by Annette Dittert, whose expert reporting from the UK in ARD my whole family has appreciated since a long time. 🚩 My guess is that the panel I’ve been on, chaired by Charles Emmerson, with Irina von Wiese and David Frost (The Rt Hon Lord Frost of Allenton CMG), provoked discussions indeed. 💡 As someone who has spent a significant amount of time at scientific conferences, this experience was particularly refreshing and enlightening. It made me realise how crucial and fascinating these kinds of multidisciplinary get-togethers are! 🏛 Academia is often fostering a culture where we mingle in particular among colleagues doing the same job, rather than who deal with similar topics but while working in a very different sector. At academic conferences, we (potentially) get the feedback that helps us to improve the papers that we hope to publish eventually. We network with the people who can become co-authors or co-writers of the next funding application. We just don’t get this quite in the same way at multidisciplinary events – but maybe this focus comes at the cost of perhaps sometimes not seeing the bigger picture – or at least, to understand thinking in other sectors. 📚 ❓ The academic community is perhaps not one that incentivises permeating its community boundaries. Some people are able to do it frequently – chapeau! My hunch is that the opportunity cost, both in time and travel budget, often leads us to prioritise scientific gatherings. 🤝 Learning how people in other sectors think about the same problems is just so incredibly enriching – I learned a lot about how the people in other sectors think about the same problems that people in my field work on – spanning from misinformation, and populism, to AI and European integration more generally.

FINAL CALL: Transformation in the research and innovation system seen through the lens of organization theory Dear LinkedIn network, This is a final call for submissions for the track: Transformation in the research and innovation system seen through the lens of organization theory at the coming international conference 28th to 30th August in wonderful Oslo, Norway, entitled: Transformative Research and Innovation. The conference is financed by the Research Council of Norway and the venue is a gorgeous location, overlooking the Oslo Fjord. https://lnkd.in/d4_pmA7z There is an exciting line-up of key-note speakers comprised of international RRI and innovation experts: https://lnkd.in/d2E-QyDc We are welcoming abstracts between 400 and 600 words, excluding references. Please find the call for track #4 here: https://lnkd.in/evK3mNms The final submission deadline is 15th March 2024 Short abstract: Responsible (Research) and Innovation (R(R)I) calls for groundbreaking changes in the science and innovation system [1-3]. Yet, despite efforts, implementation of RRI remains patchy [4]. Obtaining R(R)I requires change in organizations in the science and innovation system, as well as change at systemic levels. Organization theory has increasingly been applied to understand such change. Scholars have mobilized neo-institutional theory and translation theory [5-8], as well as (organizational) learning [9-11], and theories on the intersection of organizational practices and language use [12, 13]. Likewise, studies have discussed the role of institutional entrepreneurs [5, 13, 14], as well as transfer between organizations in the science system [7, 15, 16]. Please feel free to reach out to me should there be any questions and share this call in your networks. Best wishes, Christian (on behalf of Ellen-Marie Forsberg and I)

How can research funding and performing organizations expand their #Science4Policy activities? Reflecting on the latest guidance on the topic from Science Europe, I think we need to work on 3 levels to develop: - institutional capacities - tools and infrastructures - policies and enabling conditions Great to discuss this with Hans Willems from Research Foundation Flanders - FWO; Alberto Mercado from CSIC; Margarida Prado from Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT); and Mari Sundli Tveit from Norges forskningsråd. Thanks to Science Europe Lidia Borrell-Damian and Nicola Francesco Dotti for organizing this stimulating discussion. More info on the guidelines here: https://lnkd.in/eRk-VSuM

🇮🇹 The Italian translation of our policy brief on excellent science communication for urgent societal challenges is now available   This policy brief summarises the outcomes from a series of individual interviews and topic-based workshops that investigated how science communication can contribute to navigating complex, urgent societal issues in four topic areas: 1) Climate emergency, 2) Water, oceans and soils, 3) Health & vaccines, and 4) Artificial intelligence & digital transformation.   Both the English and Italian versions of the policy brief are available on Zenodo at the following links: - English version: https://lnkd.in/dRGqDRJc - Italian version: https://lnkd.in/d8YkkHcw   The policy brief was authored by Kaelin DeLong (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam)), Tessa Roedema (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam)), Willemine Willems (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam)), Joana Magalhães (Science For Change), Emma Weitkamp (University of the West of England) and Rosa Arias (Science For Change), and was reviewed by Michael Creek (Stickydot). The Italian translation is by Paola Rodari (SISSA Medialab). European Commission European Research Executive Agency (REA) EU Science, Research and Innovation #HorizonEU