In the EU, spatial inequality is often conceptualised as regional inequality, and as a consequence it is measured at the level of large EU regions. Such measures show a large variation in income between European countries and also within countries.…
Cyril Blondel, from UniLu, participated in the Cohesify Final Conference as our RELOCAL ’agent’ in April.
On June 9th 2018, the artist Clio Van Aerde has started her expedition during which she seeks to explore the physical border of the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg. The departure and arrival point is Schengen and to arrive back to…
All case studies have been selected after Barcelona meeting and the empirical phase started. RELOCAL teams are working in all cases in order to have the first results in October, when the next meeting will take place in Budapest.
The first RELOCAL Project Conference was held on 15th February in Barcelona, hosted by the Faculty of Geography and History of the University of Barcelona. The Conference aimed at the interchange of research approaches between RELOCAL and its two twin…
The RELOCAL consortium met in Barcelona in February 2018 to streamline Case Study elaboration. Preliminary results of pilot case studies were discussed allowing for adjustments on the project's case study methodology. Then the consortium discussed new candidates for the remaining…
The RELOCAL pilot case studies are already under way. The partners involved in the “pilot case study phase” have started to work in their cases study proposals. Eight pilot cases were chosen at the Dortmund meeting out of a sample…
The Dortmund Workshop was the first step before launching pilot empirical work and testing the Manual for Case Study Research in practice. RELOCAL partners, in charge on pilot case studies, met together in Dortmund for a two-day session, focusing on…
Martiene Grootens, Marie-Curie research fellow at the University of Tartu, Estonia, visited the Department of Geography University of Luxembourg from 25th - 28th of July 2017. Her research deals with the role of local public leaders in peripheral regions of both Estonia…
Nordregio presented preliminary results regarding data assessment & collection, mapping & spatial analysis of socio-economic disparities at the regional level in a session during the 17th Nordic Geographers Meeting held in Stockholm, Sweden, 18th – 21st June 2017. The presentation’s title was…