WELCOME TO OUR FEBRUARY 2021 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 EURA 2021 - Online conference on "Contradictions Shaping Urban Futures", 6-7 May, 2021

Dear EURA Members and wider community,

We have informed you, in our previous newsletter and through the dedicated website that due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the EURA 2020 conference planned for Oslo last June was cancelled.
This was a disappointment to all of us, but EURA is bouncing back with an online conference on the same topic on 6-7 May 2021.
The 2020 conference received a lot of papers, especially within Track 2: Sustainable vs unsustainable urban development and growth vs de-growth.

A focussed and smaller scale online event will take place, based around the papers submitted to Track 2 of the 2020 conference, organized by OSLOMET, University of OSLO, and The Oslo School of Architecture on 6-7 May 2021.

Participants to track 2 with accepted abstracts have got a personal invitation to resubmit, revise or write a new abstract within the same topic.

The conference welcome a wide audience and participation is free of charge. Please visit the webpage: https://bit.ly/3cvE5h4

For other scholars who had papers accepted for other tracks in the Oslo 2020 conference we apologise for not being able to accommodate you in the May 2021 online conference. We intend, however, to organise other online EURA conferences in the future so please look out for future announcements

Eura Conversations

EURA Conversations and the COVID-19 pandemic - please consider contributing to this series.
Launched in May 2020 the EURA Conversations platform has provided a space for urban studies scholars from across Europe (and beyond) to share reflections on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cities, as well as on different communities within cities... And the platform provides a space to begin to explore the implications of the pandemic for the future of urban studies.

In 2020 fifteen contributions were posted and the insights presented came from eleven different countries. This is most encouraging as it suggests that the platform is providing an important opportunity for scholars from different countries to share ideas and insights.

EURA Conversations will continue to provide up to date and insightful contributions once every two weeks direct to EURA members. To see the contributions posted so far please visit:
https://eura.org/eura-conversations/

We hope you think that this platform is informative.
To offer your 500 word contribution please email to: secretariat@eura.org

New contributions

# 11 Empowering place
EURA Conversations Post #11 – 19 Oct 2020
by Robin Hambleton

# 12 Urban uncertainty
EURA Conversations Post #12 – 2 Nov 2020
by Inigo Lorente Riverola

#13 Working together
EURA Conversations Post #13 – 16 Nov 2020
by Cristina Stănuș

# 14 Safe or free?
EURA Conversations Post #14 – 30 Nov 2020
by Marta Lackowska

#15 Media responsibility?
EURA Conversations Post #15 – 14 Dec 2020
by Cristiana Rossignolo

#16 Learning from 2020
EURA Conversations Post #16 – 11 January 2021
by Ignazio Vinci

#17 Remember Teaching?
EURA Conversations Post #17 – 25 January 2021
by Alistair Jones

#18 Distancing
EURA Conversations Post #18 – 8 February 2021
by Henrique Dorneles De Castro

See all the conversations at this link

NEWS FROM OUR MEMBERS

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

The 8th Winter School on Research is postponed until December 2021

this is to inform you about the 8th Winter School on Research Methodology.

The organizing committee with the WSRM Network decided to postpone the 8th school until December 2021.

The decision was taken considering the current situation and the mood of the event. Indeed, the pandemic seems to be an ongoing problem and this could not permit to discuss and reflect in the usual relaxed atmosphere.
Furthermore, we considered that the classic appointment with peer-to-peer meetings and all the other sessions are less effective online.

For all these reasons we preferred to put off the date of the 8th Winter School on Research Methodology. Hopefully, we will meet face-to-face in Florence in December 2021, possibly in the first week believing that, for that time, conditions will permit it. Stay tuned and be ready for the next School…things are fast-changing and you and we are called to monitor and innovate (not only contents but also the methodology!).

So, waiting for shaking hands again, please feel free to share opinions, facts, news, research questions, methods and approach in any kind of form you prefer on Instagram through the #WSRMinpandemics

!Stay safe and protect vulnerable groups! For any questions write at winterschool.rmflorence@gmail.com

https://researchmethodologyws.org/info

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!

The China Institute for Urban Governance (CIUG) - https://ciug.sjtu.edu.cn/En/Home - is jointly established by the Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) and the Development Research Center of Shanghai Municipal People’s Government under the auspices of the Shanghai Municipal People’s Government.

The mission of the Institute is to build a new type of think tank with world reputation and Chinese characteristics that serves as a base to attract and cultivate high-end talents.

Shanghai is required by China’s central leadership to be the ‘Leader in reform and opening up and pioneer of innovation and development. To echo this requirement, the work of the CIUG is closely focused on the country’s overall goal of deepening reform in an all-round way to improve and develop the socialist system with Chinese characteristics, to promote the national governance system, and to modernize its governance capabilities.

The main research area of the CIUG is in the improvement of the urban governance system and urban governance capabilities.

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.