Knowledge in small and medium-sized towns - Faro, 4-5 December 2008 04-12-2008 Introduction The conference, organised by the
Centro de
Investigação Sobre o Espaço (CIEO), focuses on the possible contribution of
towns to rural development by acting as a place of knowledge creation and
diffusion in order to avoid processes of decline and promote a geographically
balanced and sustainable development in rural areas.
Description
An important question related to the subject identified above is how to take
advantage of the potential of towns and rural areas and how to increase their
competitiveness, encouraging their advantages over more urbanized areas.
Important issues are for example the challenges created by learning and
knowledge diffusion in towns and rural areas, the potential of towns in
bottom-up policies such as the Leader+ approach, the importance of knowledge in
rural areas and the function of towns in rural-urban (knowledge) networks.
Research topics
The main research topics of this Conference will be:
Submitting papers
If you want to submit a paper, please send an abstract (maximum 2 pages),
written in English. It should be sent electronically in PDF format to the
cieo@ualg.pt.
Programme
For more information on the programme, please click
here.
Location
Red Auditorium, Faculty of Economics,
University of
Algarve, Campus de Gambelas.
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