Newsletter IGSEiGP AMU

Dear Colleagues,

Thank you for subscribing to our newsletter! We are pleased to present the first edition of the newsletter of the Institute of Socio-Economic Geography and Spatial Management of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. The Institute of Socio-Economic Geography and Spatial Management (IGSEiGP) was established in 1984. It is an organisational unit of the Faculty of Geographical and Geological …

FIRE! – Fertilize Innovation in Responsible Education! – ERASMUS + project

FIRE! is a project financed by the ERASMUS + programme and its main goal is to exchange good practices. The project is carried out as part of Science Communication and Citizen Science. Science Communication is an essential basis for Citizen Science, which provides an opportunity for greater public involvement and democratization of science. FIRE! fosters the development of social, civic …

FORSED – research project

FORSED - New challenges of regional policy in shaping the development factors of less developed regions is a project financed by the National Science Centre (2015/19/B/HS5/00012). Its aim is to identify and empirically verify the factors of socio-economic development and to develop a model of these factors in less developed regions in the context of new challenges of regional policy. …

Socially sustainable transport policy in cities

The project "Socially sustainable transport policy and its implications for major Polish cities" received funding from the National Science Centre of Poland as part of the OPUS 14 call. It will be implemented by two researchers from our Institute: Dr Adam Radzimski in the role of principal investigator and Dr Jędrzej Gadziński. The project aims to contribute to an emerging …

TeRRIFICA – Territorial RRI fostering Innovative Climate Action

TeRRIFICA - Territorial RRI Fostering Innovative Climate Action is a project implemented under the EU's Horizon 2020 program, which includes a comprehensive and extensive review of knowledge in the field of: research into adaptation to climate change, actual actions taken in this direction as part of development policy and strategy and methods used to provide information on the challenges posed …

International RE-CITY research project under the Horizon 2020 program

The employees of the Institute of Socio-Economic Geography and Spatial Management have become a part of the research network RE-CITY: Reviving shrinking cities - innovative paths and perspectives towards livability for shrinking cities in Europe. The project will be carried out by scientists from Germany, Netherlands, Portugal, France, England, Luxembourg, Poland, USA, Mexico and Japan. The coordinator of the project …

Polish team among the winners of the international call for European-Indian research projects

A Polish research team headed by dr hab. Krzysztof Stachowiak from the Institute of Socio-Economic Geography and Spatial Management of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań has made a list of winners of the EqUIP call entitled Sustainability, equity, wellbeing and cultural connections. This call for collaborative research projects has been developed as part of the EU-India Platform which promotes cooperation between funding agencies to …

Completion of the project: Geoportal supporting public participation in urban planning

In April 2018, the Metropolitan Research Center completed the project: Geoportal supporting public participation in urban planning. The project started in May 2015 and was financed by the National Centre for Research and Development as part of the Applied Research Program. During the implementation of the project, the Center’s partners were the Recoded company and self-governments from the Poznań agglomeration, …

Baltic Sea Region Young Planners Contest “Livable Places and Space of Tomorrow”

Institute of Socio-Economic Geography and Spatial Management has become a partner of an international project on spatial and strategic planning for the countries located in the Baltic Sea region. The main objective of the project is the organisation of "Baltic Sea Region Young Planners Contest" entitled "Livable Places and Space of Tomorrow", which will be held from 26 to 29 …

Banaszak M., Dzięcielski M., Nijkamp P., Ratajczak W., (2018). Geography in motion: Hexagonal spatial systems in fuzzy gravitation. Environment and Planning A Link to the article

Falco, E., Malavolta, I., Radzimski, A., Ruberto, S., Iovino, L., & Gallo, F. (2018). Smart City L’Aquila: An Application of the “Infostructure” Approach to Public Urban Mobility in a Post-Disaster Context. Journal of Urban Technology, 25(1), 99–121. Link to the article

Kudłak, R., Szőcs, I., Krumay, B., & Martinuzzi, A. (2018). The future of CSR-Selected findings from a Europe-wide Delphi study. Journal of Cleaner Production, 183, 282-291. Link to the article

Radzimski, A. (2018). Involving small landlords as a regeneration strategy under shrinkage: evidence from two East German cases. European Planning Studies, 26(3), 526–545. Link to the article

Stryjakiewicz, T., Kudłak, R., Ciesiółka, P., Kołsut, B., & Motek, P. (2018). Urban regeneration in Poland’s non-core regions. European Planning Studies, 26(2), 316-341. Link to the article

Theoretical and application challenges of contemporary socio-economic geography is a monograph published in 2018 as part of the series of Studies of the Committee for Spatial Economy and Regional Planning, Polish Academy of Sciences (vol. 183). The publication contains the papers of recognised Polish authorities in the field of socio-economic research, systematising the main theoretical and application challenges of contemporary socio-economic geography. The monograph was prepared for the Jubilee of the 80th birthday of Prof. Dr hab. Teresa Czyż, an outstanding Polish socio-economic geographer, co-founder of the Poznań methodological school, an inspirer of many new trends and methodological approaches, and the author of numerous works that provided the foundation for the Polish regional research. Link to the articles (in Polish)

"Quaestiones Geographicae", one of leading Polish geographical journals, has been published by the Faculty of Geographical and Geological Sciences, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań since 1974. The journal is indexed in Scopus and Web of Science Emerging Sources Citation Index. Please find recently published Open Access articles under the following link.

Integrated development planning – a new field of study at the Institute

In October 2018, the Institute launched a new field of study – Integrated development planning. This is the first such course in Poland, prepared as a response to the present changes in the area of strategic management and spatial planning in Poland and Europe. It creates the possibility of preparing new staff for the needs of administration and institutions dealing …

Visiting researchers at our Institute

From 10th to 14th of December 2018, Dr Maria Gunko from the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow visited our Institute. The purpose of the visit was to establish the cooperation with the researchers from our Institute in the field of study related to the process of urban shrinkage. As part of the visit on December 14th, Dr Maria Gunko …

Meeting with the President of Wrocław, Dr Rafał Dutkiewicz

On October 23, in room 21, the Faculty of Geographical and Geological Sciences and the Centre of Metropolitan Studies of AMU organised a meeting with the President of Wrocław, Dr Rafał Dutkiewicz. The guest, as an excellent speaker, spoke with eloquence about the events taking place during his presidency, answered the questions asked by students and the Faculty employees.