EURA 2025 Conference – Call for host

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EURA 2025 CONFERENCE

Call for expression of interest to host the event in 2025

The European Urban Research Association President and Governing Board invite expressions of interest from Universities, Research Centres and Research Institutes who would be interested in organising and hosting the EURA annual conference in 2025

EURA ANNUAL CONFERENCE

EURA is a network of urban scholars facilitating cross-disciplinary research and stimulating academic debate about urban issues in Europe. The aims and objectives of EURA are to encourage international exchange and co-operation in relation to urban research;to stimulate and encourage interdisciplinary and cross-border urban research; and to contribute to urban policy debates.

THE CONFERENCE

The EURA annual conference should have a conference theme which is broad enough to be attractive for EURA members with different backgrounds and interests. Within such a broad overall topic there is room for an array of more specialised parallel tracks and workshops. EURA annual conferences are truly interdisciplinary events and accommodate scholars from, political sciences, urban economics, urban studies, urban sociology, sustainability studies, geography, urban design and planning.

Standard tracks that are included in EURA annual conferences cover the following broad themes:

  • Sustainable/resilient cities
  • Knowledge and economic development
  • Urban sociology
  • Policy studies / Governance
  • Spatial planning / Architecture
PREVIOUS EURA ANNUAL CONFERENCES

Recent EURA conferences have been held in Reykjavík (Iceland 2023); Milan (Italy 2022); Oslo (Norway_online 2021); Dublin (Ireland 2019); Tilburg (The Netherlands 2018); Warsaw (Poland 2017), and Turin (Italy 2016).

Past conference themes have included: "The European City: A practice of resilience in the face of an uncertain future"; "Defrag-Europe: fragility/antifragility at play in contemporary Europe"; "Contradictions Shaping Urban Futures", "City Futures IV: Creating just and sustainable cities"; "Reconciling Past and Future Urban and Regional Strengths"; "Cities Locked in Networks".

SUBMIT YOUR EXPRESSION OF INTEREST

The expression of interest to host the conference should contain the following details:

  • A broad theme for the conference (including a working title)
  • A description of the theme
  • A proposed date for the conference (preferably mid to late June)
  • Proposed tracks (if possible)
  • The proposed venue
  • An institutional profile of the organiser (in most cases this should be an Academic Institution/ or Research Institute
  • Details of any former experience with conference organisation and management
  • Indication of financial capacity to organise the conference
  • Some information on the location (i.e. accessibility and affordability and hotel capacity of the location. Attractiveness of the location for urban researchers including potential for mobile workshops/field trips)
  • The ability to attract an audience usually of 200-400 people
  • The hosts ability to organise virtual tracks and facilitate some virtual/online attendance
  • Key contact person (and if possible, details of others on a local organising committee)
DEADLINE

A formal proposal for the year 2025 should be submitted by MARCH 1st, 2024 to the EURA Secretariat (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).

FURTHER INFORMATION

Please contact the EURA President Filipe Teles or the EURA Events Group co-Ordinator Paula Russell
Submit your expression of interest via email to the EURA Secretariat (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

GET TO KNOW EURA

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