INTERNATIONAL SECTIONS

I wish to open and run an International Section. Email: rsa@rsa-ls.ac.uk

• Hungary
• Chair: Dr Attila Korompai, Futures Research Department, University of Economic Sciences, Budapest

• Ireland
This section was officially open in 1974 to provide a forum to discuss regional issues in Ireland.
• Chair: Micheal Collins, Hon Secretary RSA Irish Branch, Dept of Economics, Trinity College, Dublin 2
• Secretary: Patrick Collins
• Section Website : www.rsaireland.com
• Newsletters
• RSA (Irish Branch) Committee
• AGM Minutes 2009-2010
• Goals and Values

• Nordic Section
• NORSA: Nordic Section of the Regional Studies Association
  The Section encompasses members in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Finland and was officially open on the 11th September 2008 in Umeå, Sweden.
  
  NORSA 2010
  The Search: Future dynamics of regional development
  
  www.ucs.fi/NORSA/
  
  University consortium of Seinäjoki, University of Helsinki and University of Tampere would like to invite you to submit an abstract for a presentation at the third conference of NORSA, the Nordic section of the Regional Studies Association.
  
  We are inviting papers from various academic fields concerned with the processes and practices of regional development. Themes of the sessions include, but are not limited to,
  
  - Leadership, collective action and regional development
  - Regional innovation systems and environments
  - Constructing regional advantage
  - Institutions, processes of institutional change and governance
  - Culture, creativity and regions
  - Issues of peripherality in border regions
  - Regional engagement of higher education institutions
  - Urban - Rural Interaction: Economic, Social and Political Dimensions
  - Small businesses and regional development
  - Potential of built environment
  - CGE simulation models in economic impact assessment
  
  We welcome papers from academics and other people with academic interest from Nordic countries, Europe and beyond. To encourage conversation and mutual learning, we prefer substantial abstracts of approximately 1000 words/2 pages that present the main ideas, methods and arguments of the presentation. No full papers are expected. Abstracts should be submitted by March 22nd 2010.
  
  Further information on the conference programme and excursions, venue, abstract submission, registration fees etc. is available on the conference website www.ucs.fi/NORSA/ or by e-mail norsa2010@uta.fi.
  
  
• Chair: Peter de Souza
• Secretary: Oddbjorn Bukve

• Poland
• Chair: Grzegorz Gorzelak, European Institute for Regional and Local Development, University of Warsaw

• Scotland
• Dr Ross Brown, Strategy Division, Scottish Enterprise, 150 Broomielaw, Glasgow, G2 8LU, UK
• Future Events
  Call for Papers on the theme of high growth firms and regional economic development.
  'Gazelles and Regional Development: Growth Trajectories, Determinants and Spatial Implications'
  20th-21st April 2010, Central Scotland, UK.
  Deadline for Abstracts to be sent is 27th November 2009.
• Past events

• Wales
• Max Munday, Cardiff Business School, University of Cardiff
• Future Events
  "Exiting the Crises: Regional Development Priorities for the Post Recession Economy"
  7th December 2009, Glamorgan Building, Cardiff University, Wales.
  Programme