Dear Colleagues,

Socio-economic geography and spatial management was recognised as a separate scientific discipline in the classification of fields and disciplines of science adopted in 2018 (after the OECD classification) by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education. A formal acknowledgment of the autonomy of the discipline within the systemic changes in the area of science and higher education in …

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TeRRIFICA – Territorial RRI Fostering Innovative Climate Action

TeRRRIFICA is a project that includes a comprehensive review of: research on adaptation to climate change, real action taken in this direction in development policy and strategies and methods used to communicate the challenges of climate change to external partners (society, business, public authorities). The project operates simultaneously in six pilot regions: Spain, Germany, France, Serbia and Poland and Belarus. …

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Updates from the Ruraction project

Academic year 2018/2019 is the third year of the implementation of the project “RURACTION – Social Entrepreneurship in Structurally Weak Rural Regions in Europe”. This project is conducted under the Horizon 2020 Programme – Maria Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network (grant agreement N° 721999) and has a scientific and didactic character. As part of the project, Barrai Hennebry, an Irishman, prepares …

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New researcher and Ph.D. student in the Horizon 2020 RE-CITY project

Our Faculty participates in a Horizon 2020 project "RE-CITY: Reviving shrinking cities - innovative paths and perspectives towards livability for shrinking cities in Europe". David Huntington, who prepares a doctoral dissertation entitled "Actor constellations and institutional framework in shrinking cities", began working on the project on 1 July 2019. David is a Canadian citizen who holds a bachelor degree in …

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FORSED project - geography matters…

The employees of the Department of Regional Analysis of Adam Mickiewicz University conduct research on the identification of spatial differences in the socio-economic development level and their determinants. As part of the FORSED project “New challenges of regional policy in shaping socio-economic development factors of less developed regions”, funded by the National Science Center (2015/19/B/HS5/00012), we drew attention, among other things, …

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The 3rd World Conference SURE - “Cities as Social-Ecological Systems” and „Nature-based Solutions EXPO” project CONNECTING Nature, Poznań 2020!

We have the pleasure to invite scientists and practitioners interested in the field of widely understood urban ecology, ecosystem services and nature-based solutions to attend The 3rd World Conference of the Society for Urban Ecology “Cities as Social-Ecological Systems”, which will be held 6-8 July 2020 in Poznań. The Conference will host thematic symposia like Nature-based Solutions for Cities, ECOSERV …

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Central European Conference in Regional Science 2021 to be held at WGSEiGP

During the 7th edition of the Central European Conference in Regional Science (CERS), held in Hungary on October 9-11, 2019, it was decided that the next edition will take place in 2021 and will be organised at the Faculty of Socio-Economic Geography and Spatial Management of the Adam Mickiewicz University. CERS are a series of international conferences organised on behalf …

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Kopczewska, K., Churski, P., Ochojski, A., & Polko, A. (2019). SPAG: Index of spatial agglomeration. Papers in Regional Science, pirs.12470. https://doi.org/10.1111/pirs.12470 

Kudłak, R. (2019). The role of corporate social responsibility in predicting CO2 emission: An institutional approach. Ecological Economics163, 169–176. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2019.04.027

Radzimski, A., Gadziński, J. (2019). Travel Behaviour in a Post-Socialist City. European Spatial Research and Policy26(1), 43–60. https://doi.org/10.18778/1231-1952.26.1.03

The latest issue of Quaestiones Geographicae

The latest Quaestiones Geographicae 38(2) (series Human Geography and Spatial Management) is devoted to the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the Poznań geographical centre. The development and the international popularisation of its achievements are strictly connected to the journal Quaestiones Geographicae, founded in 1974. This is a double anniversary volume because the 100th commemoration of founding the Poznań University …

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First academic year of Integrated Development Planning successfully completed

First year of the new field of study Integrated Development Planning was successfully completed in September 2019. The novel programme consists of modules within which, apart from traditional lectures and exercises, students participate in workshops and meetings with practitioners. Last year, additional classes were organised with the representatives of the following local organisations and institutions: the Municipal Urban Studio, the …

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Simulation game “Smile Urbo” – didactic innovation for students

In the academic year 2018/19, for the second time, students of Spatial Management participated in the simulation game “Smile Urbo”. During the simulation, students play the roles of the representatives of a small, picturesque village. The unit is currently in crisis and investments and local legal resolutions which may improve or deteriorate given socio-economic indicators are the chance to save …

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“The geography of EU discontent”, a lecture by Prof. Andrés Rodríguez-Pose at WGSEiGP

The Faculty of Socio-Economic Geography and Spatial Management AMU and the city of Poznań organised an open lecture, given by Prof. Andrés Rodríguez-Pose as part of the cycle Academic Poznań, entitled “The geography of EU discontent” combined with the discussion related to the topic “The revenge of the places that don’t matter”, which was held on December 3 in Collegium …

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Guests of our Faculty

In the past months we have been visited by distinguished researchers from Poland and other countries, who shared with us the highlights of their research. In March, Dr Tomasz Rachwał from the Pedagogical University of Cracow delivered a presentation on "Changes in the spatial and sectoral structure of industry in Poland". In April, Dr Leighton Evans from Swansea University gave …

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Baltic Sea Region Young Planners' Contest

On August 26-29 our Faculty hosted the Baltic Sea Region Young Planners' Contest, a summer school combined with a competition for young planners under the title "Liveable Places and Spaces of Tomorrow". 60 candidates from 10 countries of the Baltic Sea region associated in VASAB (i.e. Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Germany, Sweden, Belarus, Denmark, Russia and Poland) submitted their applications. 40 …

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Researchers from our Faculty at the German Congress of Geography in Kiel

From September 25 to 30, 2019, the 61st Deutsche Kongress für Geographie (German Congress of Geography, Deutscher Geographentag until 2015) took place at our partner Christian-Albrechts-Universität in Kiel. This is a scientific conference of geographers from German-speaking countries that is held every two years, with a tradition of over 100 years (organised for the first time in 1865 in Frankfurt …

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Scientific stay of Dr Wojciech Dyba at the Padova University

In September 2018 and in May 2019 Dr Wojciech Dyba, supported by the scholarship of the Foundation for Polish Science, took a research fellowship at the Padova University in Italy, which resulted from his previous research interests focusing on industrial clusters in Poland and northern Italy. The stay was possible thanks to the courtesy of Prof. Valentina De Marchi from …

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