This project is supported by a grant of Ministery of Research and Innovation, CNCS - UEFISCDI, project number PN-III-P4-ID-PCCF-2016-0166, within PNCDI III © Centre for European Studies - Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi

Workshop.

ReGrowEU project

Rationale Over the last decades, the notion of resilience has gained popularity in several fields, such as economics, urban planning, regional science, environmental studies, governance, geopolitics or international affairs. The main idea behind this concept is that a region, or any territorial/ economic/social/political system may be subject to various shocks and/or pressures that produce transformations in the system. However, not all the systems manage in the same way to recover after a shock; therefore, the challenging task for scholars is to identify the factors contributing to the appropriate responses of those systems that leads to recovery or even better to further development and improvement. The resilience concept has been applied mainly in studies on the impact of environment and economy-related shocks on territorial development, although the potential of interdisciplinary approaches for analysing, identifying, and providing solutions in the field is much greater. Given the complexity of such phenomena, new approaches, patterns and analysis techniques are required in order to properly tackle the issue of resilience thinking and to increase the added value of research, thus transferring the emerging academic views to the policy-making responsible. The workshop is organised by the Centre for European Studies (interdisciplinary department of the Faculty of Law) of Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi (Romania), in cooperation with Bucharest University of Economic Studies and Babes Bolyai University (Department of Public Administration and Management/ Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences), in the framework of the CNCSIS-UEFISCI RegrowEU - Advancing ground-breaking research in regional growth and development theories, through a resilience approach: towards a convergent, balanced and sustainable European Union - project aiming to bring together new theoretical approaches and empirical research results on regional resilience and policies, territorial planning, geopolitics and EU actorness. The contributions will be considering for publishing in the special issue “Spatial policies for resilience and smart transformation”, having as guest editors Karima Kourtit and Peter Nijkamp (deadline for the full papers: January 15, 2021). More information on: http://ejes.uaic.ro/.

Announced participants • Patricio AROCA, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Chile • Bjørn Terje ASHEIM, University of Stavanger, Norway • Andrea CARAGLIU, Politecnico di Milano, Italy • David CASTELLS-QUINTANA, University of Barcelona, Spain • Tomás Ponce DENTINHO, University of the Azores, Spain, • Juan Carlos MARTIN, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain • Vicente ROYUELA, University of Barcelona, Spain

ORGANISATION: VENUE: The RegrowEU Workshop will be organised online, via ZOOM platform and will be streamed on Facebook page of the project fb.me/regroweu. All participants will receive the link for access in due time. This link will be tested half an hour before the start of the event. PRESENTATION: The sections will be chaired by external scholars. Each participant will have 20 minutes for the presentation. Paper discussions will take place after each presentation. Discussions about the papers will be made at the end of the section (Q&A), based on the questions received on the ZOOM chat.