June 24-26, 2025

 

"Strategies of Spatial Development: Challenges and Prospects"

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Dear Colleagues!

 

We invite you to take part in the VIII International Regional Economics Conference (REC-2025) “Strategies of Spatial Development: Challenges and Prospects”, which will be held from June 24 to June 26, 2025.

 

Traditionally, the Conference is held in Ekaterinburg, Russia; the event is organized by the Institute of Economics of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences with the participation of other academic organizations.

 

The Regional Economics Conference is created to combine the efforts of the academia, government and business, with the purpose to solve the fundamental problem of overcoming challenges to the development of territorial communities of different levels. Within the framework of the Conference, a wide range of issues of the regional economy is considered, but every year the attention of the participants focuses on the one basic feature of regional development, a complex and debatable aspect.

 

In 2025, the Conference will consider the change management in the municipalities, regions and states.

 

The main topics are the following:

  • Spatial science: social and economic aspects

  • Allocation of territorial capital in the municipalities, regions, and states 

  • Spatial development trends: features of identification and interpretation

  • Principles and priorities of spatial development 

  • Spatial development management: policies, mechanisms, instruments

 

Important dates

  • Start of registration – February 3, 2025.

  • Start of submissions to the Proceedings indexed in the Russian Index of Science Citation (eLIBRARY.RU) – February 3, 2025.

  • Deadline for submissions to the Proceedings indexed in eLIBRARY.RU – April 28, 2025.

  • Deadline for submitting a manuscript to Research Topic of the journal Frontiers in Political Science (Q1 Scopus, Q1 SJR, ESCI WoS) – October 6, 2025.

  • Dates of the Conference – June 24-26, 2025.

 

Publication

 

Conference venue

Institute of Economics of the Ural Brach of Russian Academy of Sciences

29, Moskovskaya str., Ekaterinburg, Russia

 

Conference languages: Russian, English

Participant format: face-to-face / online / video-presentation

 

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