Welcome to RELOCAL
EU Horizon 2020 research project ‘Resituating the local in cohesion and territorial development’ – RELOCAL aims to identify factors that condition local accessibility of European policies, local abilities to articulate needs and equality claims and local capacities for exploiting European opportunity structures. It will be based on case studies of local contexts (cities and their regions) that exemplify development challenges in terms of spatial justice. Case study locations will thus be chosen to allow for a balanced representation of different institutional contexts.
Some RELOCAL results and conclusions:
Calendar events:
| RELOCAL Policy Conference | Online More information here
| RELOCAL Online Policy Webinar | Online. More information here
– Webinar 1 (23rd November) – “Perceptions of Spatial Injustice” Watch this webinar
– Webinar 2 (26th March) – “Two urban RELOCAL cases with governance innovation in the spotlight” Watch this webinar
– Webinar 3 (19th May) -“Top-down vs bottom-up approaches in promoting place-based and participative action” Watch this webinar
RELOCAL on European Planning Studies Journal
RELOCAL team has published 9 papers on European Planning Studies Journal. These form one…
New expert consultation. Know more about RELOCAL conclusions
RELOCAL has studied several cases in order to assess place-based actions, territorial cohesion and…
RELOCAL Online Policy Webinar 3
"Top-down vs bottom-up approaches in promoting place-based and participatory action" As part of the…
RELOCAL Online Policy Webinar 2
"Two urban RELOCAL cases with governance innovation in the spotlight: Stockholm Commission and Lodz…
RELOCAL Policy Conference: insights on RELOCAL case studies and territorial development policy.
Petri Kahila and James Scott introduced us to this conference about the RELOCAL…
Trajectories of spatial justice and actions to achieve it across Europe
Simone Piras, Margaret Currie, Dominic Duckett, Andrew Copus (Hutton); Paulina Tobiasz-Lis, Karolina Dmochowska-Dudek (ULodz)…
Empirical findings on regional autonomy and spatial justice
Cyril Blondel and Estelle Evrard (UL). The notion of autonomy has become central for…
Situating the RELOCAL Cases
Sabine Weck, Viktoria Kamuf & Felix Matzke (ILS Dortmund) The aim of this report…
Analysis of spatial inequalities at different geographical scales
This report provides empirical evidence on the relationship between local area income deprivation and…
Exploring the role of place-based knowledge
Thomas Borén, Department of Human Geography, Stockholm University The present report is an empirical…
Identifying types and modes of procedural (in)justice
Peter Schmitt, Stockholm University This report discusses findings that stem from 22 out of…
RELOCAL Policy Conference
“Empowering the Local for Enhancing Cohesion and Spatial Justice in Europe” Date: 15th March…
Next RELOCAL activities – Working towards the finalization of the project
The RELOCAL project was originally to be finalized at the end of September 2020.…
RELOCAL Policy Webinars
RELOCAL Online Policy Webinar 1 "Perceptions of Spatial Injustice" Date: 23rd November 2020 Time:…
Results of Expert consultation on Tools for Contributing to Spatial Justice
This has been the 1ST expert consultation brought forward by the RELOCAL…
RELOCAL & PLOTINA joint workshop on “Women as Agents of Local Transformation”
The European H2020 projects PLOTINA - Promoting Gender Balance and Inclusion in Research, Innovation…
RELOCAL & IMAJINE joint workshop on Spatial Disparities in Europe
The H2020 sister projects IMAJINE and RELOCAL organized a joint workshop on Spatial disparities in…
RELOCAL on EU Regions Week – Shrinking Rural Regions and Spatial Justice
RELOCAL half-day session at the DG Regio Cities and Regions “Open Days” with the…
RELOCAL Special Session in the AESOP Annual Congress in Venice
RELOCAL had a Special Session in the AESOP Annual Congress in Venice on 9-13…
RELOCAL will share with the ESPON ESCAPE project a half-day session at DG Regio Cities and Regions “Open Days” event
RELOCAL will share with the ESPON ESCAPE project a half-day session at the…
“Using the Potentials of Youth Participation in Urban Development!”
“Using the Potentials of Youth Participation in Urban Development!”: Under this premise, ILS researcher…
Le Parlement Intempestif du Label Euralens
“The Untimely Parliament of the Euralens Label”: Creation, animation and fictionalization of a Parliament. …
RELOCAL Case Study “Smart Country Side Ostwestfalen-Lippe” in the national debate
On January 23 and February 28, 2019, ILS Researcher Sabine Weck presented and discussed…
RELOCAL Second Conference in Lodz – H2020 Projects on Regional Justice and EU Cohesion Policy
The second conference took place last March in Lodz, involving researchers from three other…
RELOCAL consortium meeting in Lodz – the final stage of Case Studies
RELOCAL met together in Lodz for a two day workshop, attended by project partners,…
Geographies of (in)justice
Guest lecture series in Geography and Spatial Planning “Regeneration not speculation” says a billboard…
Beyond the Economic Dimension – The Social and Environmental Impact of a Producer Organisation
Poster-pitching session with RELOCAL case study on Szentes in charge with CERS HAS. The…
RELOCAL is going to have a Special Session in the AESOP Annual Congress in Venice
RELOCAL is going to have a Special Session in the AESOP Annual Congress in…
RELOCAL Conference: “Role of the Local in Improving Cohesion and Spatial Justice” – Lodz, Poland (March 7th 2019)
2nd RELOCAL Project Conference - The Role of the Local in Improving Cohesion and Spatial…
JSSJ – Justice Spatiale / Spatial Justice
JSSJ - Justice Spatiale / Spatial Justice is a peer-reviewed, open access and bilingual…
RELOCAL Consortium Meeting in Budapest
The RELOCAL consortium met on the 9th - 10th of October in Budapest on…
More info about Case Studies: Rotterdam – TUDelft
Rotterdam is hip, hot and happening, but this mostly applies to Rotterdam North. The…
RELOCAL Conceptual Framework
The conceptual framework of RELOCAL, as defined in March 2017, responds to the need…
Special Session on “Disparities and Sustainability in Europe“ in the 58th ERSA Congress
58th ERSA Congress “Places for People: Innovative, Inclusive and Liveable Regions“ 28 -31 August…
Multi-scalar patterns of inequalities
In the EU, spatial inequality is often conceptualised as regional inequality, and as a…
RELOCAL participated in the Cohesify Final Conference
Cyril Blondel, from UniLu, participated in the Cohesify Final Conference as our RELOCAL ’agent’…
A manifestation of the human border
On June 9th 2018, the artist Clio Van Aerde has started her expedition during…
All RELOCAL case studies have started the empirical phase!
All case studies have been selected after Barcelona meeting and the empirical phase started.…
RELOCAL First Project Conference
The first RELOCAL Project Conference was held on 15th February in Barcelona, hosted by…
RELOCAL Consortium Meeting in Barcelona
The RELOCAL consortium met in Barcelona in February 2018 to streamline Case Study elaboration.…
The RELOCAL pilot case studies have already started!
The RELOCAL pilot case studies are already under way. The partners involved in the…
RELOCAL Workshop in Dortmund
The Dortmund Workshop was the first step before launching pilot empirical work and testing…
Creating bridges with Estonia’s University of Tartu
Martiene Grootens, Marie-Curie research fellow at the University of Tartu, Estonia, visited the Department…
Presentation of results regarding data assessment during the 17th Nordic Geographers Meeting
Nordregio presented preliminary results regarding data assessment & collection, mapping & spatial analysis of…
RELOCAL participated on AESOP annual congress in Lisbon
Organizing and participating in a round-table session at the AESOP Annual Congress in Lisbon,…
Preliminary work in Nord-Pas-de-Calais
University of Luxembourg team undertook a one-week exploratory fieldwork in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region in…
RELOCAL H2020 YouTube Channel
The RELOCAL H2020 YouTube channel is a compilation of multimedia resources dealing with spatial justice action…
Brainstorming RELOCAL conceptual framework. Volos, Greece 8-9 March 2017
RELOCAL met together in Volos for a two day brainstorming session on the orientations…
Interview with David Simon
During the 3rd week of February, the INTREPID cost-action project organised in Barcelona an expert…
RELOCAL Kick-off meeting in Joensuu
As the Lead Partner of the project consortium, the Karelian Institute at the University…
