Dear Readers,

we are pleased to present the newest edition of the newsletter of the Faculty of Human Geography and Planning, Adam Mickiewicz University (formerly: Faculty of Socio-Economic Geography and Spatial Management). 

News from the RurAction project

RurAction, an EU Horizon 2020 funded project of which AMU is a partner, is being continued. The activities of the project have unfortunately been derailed due to the current circumstances but the consortium has been keen to progress with the project and have continued to conduct research. A policy round table was due to take place in March in Berlin …

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TeRRIFICA – Territorial RRI Fostering Innovative Climate Action 2020

TeRRIFICA is a project that includes a comprehensive review of research on adaptation to climate change, real actions 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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Research in India as part of the international FilmInd project

On March 9-16, 2020, prof. Krzysztof Stachowiak from the Faculty of Human Geography and Planning and prof. Marcin Adamczak from the Department of Anthropology and Cultural Studies were in Mumbai, India on a research trip related with the international project FilmInd „The Indian film industry as a driver of new socio-economic connections between India and Europe." The project is funded …

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‘Services provided by the main types of ecosystems in Poland—an applied approach’ – a new project from the Norway Grants

The staff of the Faculty of Human Geography and Planning will carry out a new project ‘Services provided by the main types of ecosystems in Poland—an applied approach’. It is financed by the Norway Grants as part of the Environment, Energy and Climate Change Programme, which is co-ordinated by the Ministry of Climate. This is one of the three pre-defined …

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Innovative "Universal Design"

The project team, consisting of the Faculty staff composed of Dr hab. Lidia Mierzejewska, AMU Prof. (project manager), Dr hab. Magdalena Wdowicka, AMU Prof., Dr BEng in architecture Kamila Sikorska-Podyma and Paulina Perkowska, developed an innovative project application entitled: ‘Universal Design: An innovative approach to creating space accessible to everyone’, which was recognized by the National Center for Research and …

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2020 Summer school: a city in the center of Europe

We are pleased to announce that our Faculty in collaboration with the Faculty of Sociology and the Doctoral School of Social Sciences organises the Summer school: a city in the center of Europe, which is scheduled to take place between 24 and 28 August 2020. More detailed information about the programme and registration may be found here: http://sdns.amu.edu.pl/course-item/2020-summer-school/

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"Cities as Social-Ecological Systems" conference: new date announced

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference "Cities as Social-Ecological Systems: The 3rd World Conference of the Society for Urban Ecology" has been postponed to next year and is scheduled to take place between 7 and 9 July 2020 in Poznań. Please visit the conference website for updated information: https://www.sure2020.org

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Does history matter? Development differences in Poland

The analysis aims to present and assess the impact of historical factors on the differences in socio-economic development of Poland at the local level and to compare them to the results of other research that show the effects of similar analyses carried out for the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. The study is based on the analysis of spatial …

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Modern services in spatial approach and their role in socio-economic development

The book is devoted to modern services introduced against the background of changes in the service activities. This is an attempt to define the role of modern services in socio-economic development in the era of a knowledge-based economy. The analysis of the service development is presented at various spatial levels—in the system of the EU countries, at the regional level …

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Dyba, W.; Stryjakiewicz, T.; De Marchi, V., 2019. Knowledge sourcing and cluster life cycle—a comparative study of furniture clusters in Italy and Poland. European Planning Studies, 1–20.

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Hennebry, B., 2020. The determinants of economic resilience in rural regions. An examination of the Portuguese case. Miscellanea Geographica 24(1) https://doi.org/10.2478/mgrsd-2020-0001 https://content.sciendo.com/view/journals/mgrsd/24/1/article-p24.xml

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Wojtyra, B., Grudzień, Ł., Lichota, J. (2020). The (r)evolution of the craft beer scene in Poland after 2010. In. M. Patterson, N. Hoalst-Pullen (eds.) Geography of Beer: Culture and Economics (47–65). Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41654-6

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Wojtyra, B. (2020). How and why did craft breweries ‘revolutionise’ the beer market? The case of Poland. Moravian Geographical Reports, 28(2): 81–97. https://doi.org/10.2478/mgr-2020-0007

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Quaestiones Geographicae 39(2)

You are kindly invited to read the upcoming issue of Quaestiones Geographicae 39(2). It comprises the articles of Polish and foreign researchers describing various problems of human geography and spatial management. There is a cycle of articles devoted to rural areas, including their classification (article by Barraí Hennebry and Tadeusz Stryjakiewicz), internal migration (by Dariusz Ilnicki), creative activities (by Krzysztof …

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Digital geographies during the pandemic: a special issue

We are forwarding information by Dr Michał Rzeszewski, the editor of the special edition of Rozwój Regionalny i Polityka Regionalna (Regional Development and Regional Policy), about an upcoming issue of the journal devoted to digital geographies during the pandemic (http://rr.home.amu.edu.pl/). ‘This is the time of global crisis and human suffering at many levels and in many dimensions. For many of …

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Przegląd Planisty

The next issue of the popular science magazine Przegląd Planisty was published in March by the Academic Scientific Circle of Spatial Management. This time the topic concerned multi-family housing––blocks of flats, both older and newer, which surround us in almost every Polish city. The introductory article was written by the specialist Dr hab. Ewa Szafrańska, Prof. UŁ from the University …

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News from the new field of study—Integrated Development Planning

Next sessions of the ‘Integrated Development Planning’ have been completed. It is an innovative field of study launched in October 2018 on the initiative of Prof. Paweł Churski and Dr Paweł Motek, possible thanks to the funding obtained from the Operational Program ‘Knowledge, Education, Development’ (POWR.03.01.00-00-N055 / 16-00). Over the past few months interesting classes held by external employees have …

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League of Oxford-style debates at our Faculty

On 26th February the third of five rounds of the Poznań Debate League, a tournament of Oxford-style debates for secondary schools from the City of Poznań, took place at the Faculty of Human Geography and Planning of Adam Mickiewicz University. The topics of debates were related to the issues of research conducted at the Faculty (revitalization, public spaces), including the …

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Dr Wojciech Dyba's fellowship at the University of Tübingen

In April 2020, Dr Wojciech Dyba, assistant professor at the Faculty of Human Geography and Planning, ended a three-month fellowship at the renowned and one of the oldest in Germany Karl Eberhardt University in Tübingen. The fellowship was financed by the German Agency for Academic Exchange (DAAD) as part of the path of short-term research stays for academic staff. The …

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