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The news we want to share with you in February: ✅Success in Horizon Europe Twinning project ✅Upcoming PhD defence for one of our early-career members ✅Article Award for @sophieleemans and colleagues ✅Ultimate chance to register for several LUSI events! mailing.kuleuven.be/r-23edf78d2e28…

The SUNSET Doctoral Network brings together supervisors Rune Dahl Fitjar Niki Frantzeskaki Ben Derudder Huiwen Gong Aveliina Helm marketta kyttä Kati Orru Age Poom 💙💛 Ate Poorthuis Marte C W Solheim Trui Steen, Tiina Rinne, Merel Soons & Mari Vaattovaara Check out their profiles on sunsetproject.eu/?page_id=2389

🚨 PhD positions available: We are recruiting two fully funded PhD students in innovation and regional studies at Universitetet i Stavanger Stavanger Center for Innovation Research to work in SUNSET Doctoral Network Application deadline 15 April. More details below: jobbnorge.no/en/available-j… #PhDposition Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Great PhD opportunity in political science at KU Leuven Instituut voor de Overheid as part of Doctoral Network SUNSET Doctoral Network on city-university partnerships: kuleuven.be/personeel/jobs… Project will focus on evidence-based decision-making in urban innovation ecosystems More info: contact me or Trui Steen

Great PhD opportunity in Geography as part of the Doctoral Network SUNSET Doctoral Network on city-university partnerships Project will focus on social activity spaces (supervisor Ate Poorthuis; co-supervisor Age Poom 💙💛) kuleuven.be/personeel/jobs… & sunsetproject.eu Apply by 15 April '24

Plenty more PhD opportunities as part of SUNSET Doctoral Network, such as this position Universitetet i Stavanger supervised by Rune Dahl Fitjar and co-supervised by me Project will focus on peripheral cities & regions managing the transition to a green knowledge economy Apply by 15/4! jobbnorge.no/en/available-j…

The SUNSET supervisors are gathering in Leuven for two days of discussions and planning of the SUNSET Doctoral Network! Setting everything up for an exciting training and research program for our (to be hired) 10 Doctoral Candidates Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Exciting news: with colleagues urbanstudies.BXL, UrbanStudies_Antwerp, Stadsacademie UGent & The University of Manchester, we will be organizing the 6th Summer Institute in Urban Studies! This will take place in Belgium, between 7 and 11 July 2025. More info soon #sius2025 mui.manchester.ac.uk/connect/events…

A final update on KU Leuven Urban Studies Institute (LUSI) before the summer break! ✅Co-hosting Summer Institute in Urban Studies 2025 ✅Celebrating 600th anniversary of KU Leuven at New York University ✅Productive month for our early-stage researchers Check out our June Newsletter mailing.kuleuven.be/r-688493a6581f…

Onvervalst hobbyproject: een online tool die toelaat om op basis van gegevens over de verwevenheid van lokale besturen en een brede waaier aan contextuele parameters mogelijke scenario's voor gemeentefusies in Vlaanderen te simuleren. Meer details via linkedin.com/posts/activity…

New logo and major changes on the way! Watch this space, and you can find us now on LinkedIn too linkedin.com/company/global…

In a new editorial, Regional Studies - @regionalstudies.bsky.social editors, Jennifer Clark , Ben Derudder & John Harrison reflect on various opportunities and challenges of moving the journal from print to a 'build issue online' (BOI): 'Beyond print: Regional Studies in the digital age' tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Great to see this major update - with new data and findings for 2024 coming soon - being launched.

Over the next weeks, the laureates of this year's LUSI Dissertation Award will show up on your feed with a captivating pitch of their PhD research! First up Lisa-Marie Hemerijckx presenting her work on 'Spatial analysis of food systems transformations in rapidly growing African cities'

We have published the 2024 edition of our The World According to GaWC today: lboro.ac.uk/news-events/ne…

We are now accepting applications for the Summer Institute in Urban Studies 2025! #SIUS2025 takes place in Belgium (7-11 July 2025) & is organized collectively by KU Leuven Urban Studies Institute (LUSI) urbanstudies.BXL UrbanStudies_Antwerp Stadsacademie UGent & The University of Manchester (1/2) kuleuven.be/lusi/news-and-…

☎️ Calling doctoral students, post docs, and early career lecturers/profs ☎️ The 6th Summer Institute in Urban Studies is open for applications! This year it will be held in Belgium in July kuleuven.be/lusi/news-and-…

The KU Leuven Urban Studies Institute (LUSI) will organize the UniverCities Conference (30 June & 1 July 2025) on 'Challenges and Opportunities for Renewed City-University Partnerships in Europe'! Call for abstracts will open on December 1st, 2024 More info available here: univercities2025.org