Dear NECTAR friends,

Please find here a call for papers to the NECTAR Cluster 7 Meeting on Security, Hazardous Materials, and Multimodal Transport June 22nd – 23rd 2012, University of Salento – Lecce (Italy).

All enquires should be directed to the organizers: Luca Zamparini, or Genserik Reniers or Joseph Szyliowicz.

Dear Nectarists,

Please find here the call for papers for the Cluster 4 meeting in Amsterdam April 26th and 27th 2012 in Amsterdam.

The contact persons are Liv Osland and Anette Haas. All enquiries should be directed to them.

We would like to inform you that 21 November 2011 is the new deadline for submitting abstracts for our two Special NECTAR-RSAI Sessions, which will be held at the World RSAI Congress in Timisoara, Romania, on 9-12 May 2012.

The two Special Sessions are:

1. Cluster 1: Special NECTAR-RSAI Session on "Equity in Network". Organizers: Piet Rietveld and Moshe Givoni. Please, send your abstract to them (see here the updated call).
2. Cluster 6: Special NECTAR-RSAI Session on "Modelling Accessibility in Spatial-Economic Networks". Organizers: Ana Condeco-Melhorado, Aura Reggiani and Javier Gutierrez.  Please, send your abstract to:  nectar.rsai@gmail.com (see here the updated call).

There are two NECTAR Special Sessions at the RSAI world Conference in Timisoara. One for cluster 1 (find call here) and one for cluster 6 (find call here). Note that the abstract deadline is 15 November 2011!

Please find here the call for papers to the Cluster 2 meeting in Dresden 10-11 Februay 2012 on the topic: "Urban and Regional Transport: Regulation, Sustainability, E-Mobility."

The contact person is Edoardo Marcucci;  email: Edoardo Marcucci. All enquiries should be directed to him.

A workshop on inter-regional trade, investments, knowledge transfer and their effect on regional economic development

We would like to draw your attention to the workshop on Multinational strategies, trade and FDI and regional economic development that we are organizing at the Erasmus University Rotterdam in December. The aims of this intensive two-day workshop are to present and discuss research findings on the effect of trade, investments and labor mobility on the performance of urban systems and, to explore opportunities for joint research by exploring a research agenda "Multinational Strategies, Networks and Regional Economic Development". Keynote speakers will be Prof. dr. Roberto Basile, Prof. dr. Philip McCann, and Prof. dr. Klaus Meyer. More information and a call for papers can be found here.

Please find here the final program for the Nectar cluster 1 Meeting at Angra.