COURSE DESCRIPTION
The aim of this course is development of analytical and critical skills relevant for developing a holistic perspective on the application of regional policy with a special focus on EU regional policy. Course explores the most recent work in the field of regional policies and their impact on the wide range of areas in changing and post-Covid Europe. Both theoretical and empirical aspects will be covered, with a precise focus on regional policy that improves economic well-being in different regions. This course is the opportunity for scholars and professionals to enhance their knowledge about and discuss on issues closely related to the role of infrastructure, institutions and innovations for local and regional development.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
At the end of the course the participant will be able to:
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Evaluate the current socio-economic issues of regional development.
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Develop basic framework for analysing the knowledge base of the latest achievements on the role of infrastructure, institutions and innovations for local and regional development.
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Connect various elements of regional and local development.
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Develop a holistic perspective on local and regional development that takes an integrative approach towards complex mechanisms of local and regional development
TARGET AUDIENCE
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Graduate students in economics (or in social sciences, technical sciences or science related fields) who intend to round out their knowledge in the regional science and use it in the process of preparing dissertations.
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Holders of undergraduate degrees or students on last year of their studies in economics or the social sciences who wish to study the field of regional economics.
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Researchers and professionals working in the field.
CREDITS TRANSFER (ECTS)
This FEBT Summer school program offers participants the possibility of going through evaluation process for the purpose of requesting official credit transfers (ECTS).
Evaluation process
Participants who wish to acquire 6 ECTS will be evaluated based on the regular and active course attendance and taking an exam in the form of take-home essay.
The goal of the essay is to show the necessary ability to critically think about the challenges of behavioural economics and the essay should have approximately 10.000 words.
CERTIFICATE OF ATTENDANCE
Participants not interested in credit transfer will instead receive the Certificate of Attendence, stating the course completed. These students will be neither evaluated nor graded.
COURSE FEE
The price of course includes lecture and practical hours. More details about fees find here!
COURSE OUTLINE
Week of June 26 - 30, 2023 (face to face)
Lecture themes |
Lecturers |
Lecture Hours |
Shifting Horizons in Local and Regional Development |
Andrés Rodríguez-Pose
(LSE) |
4 |
Why Regional Development Matters for Europe’s Economc Future |
4 |
Regional Policy in Changing Europe |
Andrés Rodríguez-Pose
(LSE) |
4 |
Territorial Innovation and proximity relations
|
André Torre
(INRAE) |
2 |
Smart specialization policies in rural areas
|
2 |
Multisectoral and Multi-regional Economic Modelling |
Eduardo Amaral Haddad
|
2 |
Issues in the assessment of the impacts of EU Cohesion policy
|
Ugo Fratesi
|
2 |
One policy, different effects: the territorial determinants of the impacts of EU cohesion policy
|
2 |
Realization of the EU's Cohesion Policy in Health Care |
Vlado Dimovski
|
2 |
Cohesion Policy in a post-Covid Europe
|
Francesco Molica
|
2 |
Just Transition Fund and peripheral regions
|
2 |
The Visibility and Communication of Cohesion Policy in Online Media
|
Daniela Garbin Praničević
|
2 |
Context and the Role of EU Regional Policy |
Vinko Muštra (FEBT)
|
2 |
Workshop for the implementation of open innovations in the context of EU and regional development and the implementation of EU policy* |
Blanka Šimundić (FEBT) |
3 |
* Essay writing includes 2 (+3) hours of lectures (workshop) and 105 individual hours of participants who want to join the Summer School for the purposes of requesting official credit transfers of 6 ECTS |