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WELCOME TO OUR NEWSLETTER

EURA has a new newsletter! After our first number, announcing our New website (www.eura.org), we are now launching a renovated newsletter: it will come every 2 months and it will try to reach out all to our members and wider community, in order to inform them about EURA and its members.

EURA NEWS

This section presents the main news from our Association

Eura Conference 2020-2021

Dear EURA Members and wider community,
We have informed you, in our previous newsletter and through the dedicated website, about the decision to cancel our 2020 conference to be held in Oslo. We would like once again to thank all the colleagues at the University of Oslo and all those who invested so much in preparing for the 2020 Conference, which unfortunately could not take place due to Covid-19 Pandemic.

During these months, the EURA Governing Board, has been discussing possible plans for 2021. It is in fact very difficult for all of us to envisage a solution for the 2021 and start planning as usual the process that should lead to the 2021 Conference. 

Nevertheless, we are exploring several possibilities to have a special EURA Event in 2021 (online or in person) and hopefully to get back to our traditional yearly conference in 2022. The Governing Board will soon inform Members and the wider EURA community on the results of these explorations in the occasion of the 2020 EURA General Assembly, which will be held at the end of November 2020. 
Members will receive an invitation through their official representatives to an online meeting.

This will be also the occasion to open the Board to new members: some of the Governing Board Members have stepped down or have retired and we would like to have new representatives from the most active institutional members. 

As a Governing Board we have also decided to open a Call for Young Board Members, interested in taking part actively in the Governing Board activities, namely, to support new EURA initiatives. 

EURA is looking forward a new generation of Governing Board Members. If you are a EURA Member or are a faculty member of one of our Institutional Members, and you are under 35 years old and have obtained your PHD at least 5 years ago, we invite you to send us a short Letter of presentation and full Cv.

We would like to enrol 2 new colleagues, passionate and willing to launch new initiatives! Your letter will explain the reasons why you are interested in the position and we also would like to receive from you one or two good ideas for the future of EURA!

Please write to eura.secretariat@eura.org and submit your proposal, together with a full Cv.

 

Eura Conversations


New contributions

#7 Community Response
EURA Conversations Post #7 – 13 Jul 2020

by Paula Russell
# 8 Urban regeneration
EURA Conversations Post #8 – 20 Jul 2020
by Sonia De Gregorio Hurtado
# 9 To what extent can local governments tackle the social crisis?
EURA Conversations Post #9 – 27 Jul 2020
by Iván Tosics
# 10 Not just bad?
Eura Conversations Post #10 - 5 Oct 2020
by Jacob Norvig Larsen, 

See all the conversations at this link 

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Summer School on ‘Local government in motion – Local innovation in changing contexts’ | 2020

Date: September 13 to 16, 2021 Location: Chania (Crete/Greece) at the Center of Mediterranean Architecture (KAM) (the former Arsenali Veneziani)

Course directors: Prof. Dr. Nikolaos Hlepas and Prof. Dr. Björn Egner

Course Description: the 2021 summer school is aimed at doctoral and advanced students in master's programmes who wants to answer the question of why innovation has been achieved in ...

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PhD position within “Cities as learning innovation ecosystems – the role of ICT to support learning within and across cities”Call for applications 2020 now open!

About the position: we have a vacancy for a PhD candidate at the Department of Computer Science. The PhD position is within the program “Cities as learning innovation ecosystems – the role of ICT to support learning within and across cities”. Transformative processes within cities and urban contexts have been in focus for some time now and has been a part of the ...

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NEWS FROM OUR MEMBERS 

This section presents the main news from our Members: books, events, job positions, you are all invited to contribute!

A new book on Cities and Communities Beyond COVID-19

How local leadership can change our future for the better. What are the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for cities and communities? In a new book, to be published on 16 October by Bristol University Press, Professor Robin Hambleton, a Past President of EURA, suggests that local leadership can help societies recover from the pandemic and address modern societal challenges.

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A new book: Close Ties in European Local Governance - Linking Local State and Society

As a first result of the EURA Working Group on Local State-Society Relation in Europe a book on ‘Close Ties in European Local Governance. Linking Local State and Society’ has been edited by Filipe Teles, Adam Gendźwiłł, Cristina Stănuș and H. Heinelt which was published by Palgrave Macmillan (see https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030447939). In September 2020 a survey started focused on the members ...

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A WINDOW ON OUR MEMBERS

This section opens a window on our Members, asking new members and consolidated ones to present themselves afresh. The idea is to provide a simple description, with some photos and pictures presenting the main activities in the fields of teaching and research, you are all invited to contribute!

Urban studies in the desert? Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, israel 
Written by Oren Yiftachel, Nurit Alfasi, September 2020

Urban studies in the desert? Yes! The Geography Department at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev has developed one of the premier urban studies/planning programs in Israel.

Placed in the regional capital of Beersheba (metro population 700,000), a BA program was launched in Year 2000, followed shortly by an MA in planning. Both programs have quickly become highly sought-after, drawing enrolment from all regions and societal groups. https://in.bgu.ac.il/en/humsos/geog/Pages/default.aspx

At present 8 full time and some 15 part time Faculty members teach at the program. For the current academic year, some 140 students are enrolled for BA, and further 60 for MA, as well as around 30 PhD's. The program works in coordination and assistance of the Negev Sustainability Center, as well as the BGUrban Lab, and the Chair of Urban Studies, as well as a host of city councils, governmental departments and NGO's.

https://in.bgu.ac.il/en/humsos/negevSus/Pages/default.aspx

The BGU programs have acquired a 'red-green reputation', emphasizing social and environmental aspects of urban policies, for long under treated by state authorities and private offices. Israel and the Beersheba region are of course renowned living laboratories for urban and spatial issues, with fast growing population, rapid development, a plethora of ethnic and social conflicts, and recently one of the worst centers of the Covid19 pandemic. Students encounter all these issues while in our diverse program.

Urban studies in the desert? Seems like a good idea

 

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URBAN RESEARCH AND PRACTICE

This section presents information on the latest issue of our journal Urban Research and Practice, Taylor & Francis

 

Urban Research & Practice, Volume 13, Issue 3 (2020)

The latest issue of Urban Research and Practice is online, please visit the Journal at:

https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rurp20/13/3?nav=tocList

to discover the latest articles and get access to the complete collection.