
MAPS-LED Project – Second International Workshop
Manchester, UK, September 2017
The MAPS-LED Second International Workshop is a milestone of the wider MAPS-LED project. It took place during the International Research Week hosted by the University of Salford (SOBE partner of the MAPS-LED project) between the 11th and 15th of September 2017. The aim of the workshop was to disseminate the results of the research activities – conducted in Boston and San Diego- and enhance the potential impact of the research by involving external experts and potential local users in the mid-term assessment stages of the research process. The research activities focused on the urban dimension of innovation and how public policies support local innovation ecosystems and entrepreneurial knowledge within the (local) clusters. These elements play a central role in US socio-economic and physical transformation, favoring knowledge-based urban regeneration processes. This new approach was outlined by the MAPS-LED experienced and early stage researchers’ contributions and presentations during the Workshop, which saw the participation of the MAPS-LED project partners, the international academic community and local and national stakeholders from the United Kingdom and other EU countries.

MAPSLED Project – First International Workshop
Rome, 3-4 December 2016
The Workshop is specifically oriented in delivering critical reflections and significant contributions for the development of the main goals of MAPS-LED research project. In particular, crucial, in depth contributions and dialectic positions are expected to be presented and discussed – within sessions and round tables – by distinguished invited experts and numerous stakeholders, in order to build significant connections between the Greater Boston case findings and the virtuous interpretation of Smart Specialization Strategies and Cluster policies in the European territorial context.
Critical contributions, discussions, comments and remarks emerging from presentations and debates will be finalized to the construction of WP2 deliverables, and in particular to the 2nd MidTerm Scientific Report ‘Book of lessons learnt on successful clusters from the Boston cases’

URED Seminar – Research and Territory
2° Seminar on the research activity of the PAU Department Laboratories
University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria
Dipartimento PAU Conference Room
Wednesday 27th of November 2019
The second Seminar on the research activity of the PAU Department Laboratories continues the series of six-monthly meetings aimed at the presentation and dissemination of research in progress or being implemented in the Laboratories of the Department.
The initiative aims at being an opportunity to spread the research activities being carried out within the Department and the academic community, also calling the external partners: Institutions, Entities, Companies, Associations, Freelancers, which through conventions, agreements and collaborations, contribute or can contribute to the performance of the planned activities with the Heads of the Laboratories and the members of the respective Scientific Councils.
The meeting also aims at pursuing new possible forms of collaboration with other research facilities of the University and with all institutional and non-institutional entities, which can make use of the services offered by the research laboratories in their multidisciplinary for a more widespread and effective cross-units cooperation, which the newly established Research Network of the University intends to promote and strengthen.

MAPS-LED Project – First Mid-Term Meeting
June 2016, Boston (MA)
The MAPS-LED First Mid Term Meeting took place in Boston at Northeastern University – Department of Economics on the 6th and 7th of June 2016. The meeting was developed in coherence with the planned activities of the MAPS-LED Research Project – Horizon 2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie RISE 2014.
The event saw the participation of the European Commission represented by Ms. Desislava Kolarova Project adviser for the European Commission REA, Unit A3.
Experienced and Early Stage Researchers belonging to the International Research Network of the Project reported about the research activities conducted on the Working Package No. 1 (S3: Research and Innovation Strategy) and No. 2 (S3: Cluster Policy and Spatial Planning).
The meeting has been crucial in exchange ideas and gather new insights about the Smart Specialisation Strategies and Clusters which were the two topics analysed. Researchers introduced interesting insights about the relationship between Smart Specialisation Strategies, Cluster policy and Spatial Planning presenting the studied Cluster Policy Initiatives

CLUDsLab – Welcome PAU – Laboratori Aperti
Reggio Calabria, IT – February 2016
http://www.unirc.it/comunicazione/articoli/15768/9-marzo-giornate-di-orientamento-del-pau-laboratori-aperti-universitylab-dalle-900-in-aula-magna-architettura
http://www.pau.unirc.it/ricerca.php

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13 January 2016, Reggio Calabria (IT)
#CAPT_URED
Territorial Capital for Urban Regeneration and Economic Development
The Inauguration event of the URED Doctorate IV Cycle Academic Year was held at the
PAU Department (Mediterranean University) Wednesday 13 January 2016. The launch of the new Cycle of Doctorate represented the connection between the conclusion of the activities of the first cycle (2012-2015) and the beginning of the activities of the new PhD students of the IV Cycle coming from Italy, France, Russia and China for the period 2015-2018.

MAPS-LED Project – Kickoff Meeting
Boston, August 2015
The Northeastern University Department of Economics hosted the 2015 Kick-Off meeting of the MAPS-LED research project from August 26 to August 27.
MAPS-LED “Multidisciplinary Approach to Plan Smart Specialisation Strategies for Local Economic Development” is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie RISE research project funded by the European Union’s HORIZON 2020 program for Research and Innovation (http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/en/what-horizon-2020).
The RISE Program aims to strengthen research partnerships concerning innovative issues by the exchange of researchers among EU and Non-EU countries.
Participating Universities:
Università degli Studi “Mediterranea” Reggio Calabria PAU
Università degli Studi “La Sapienza”
Salford University of Manchester
Aalto University
Northeastern University
San Diego State University

MAPS-LED Project – Open Panel Discussion
MAPS-LED “Multidisciplinary Approach to Plan Smart Specialization Strategies for Local Economic Development” is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie RISE research project funded by the European Union’s HORIZON 2020 program for Research and Innovation. The project intends to examine how S3 can be implemented, with respect to the new agenda of Europe 2020, by incorporating a place-based dimension.
The main aims are:
1) to identify and examine S3 in terms of spatial, social and environmental factors;
2) to take into account local needs and opportunities driving regional policy interventions not only to emphasize “Key Enable Technologies”, but also to empower local innovation process – tacit knowledge, embedded social networks, innovative milieu.
Guest Speakers
Jesse Marsh
Atelier Studio
Andreas Faludi
Delft University of Technology
Dominique Foray
Polytechnique de Lausanne
Silvia Viviani
President of INU
Jan Maarten de Vet
Director of ECORYS Brussels
Paola Casavola
Head of Evaluation Unit at Department of Development and Social Cohesion, Ministry of Economic Development
Riccardo Padovani
Director of SVIMEZ
Mike Hardy
Coventry University (UK)
Francesca Moraci
Professor in Urban Planning
Universita’ degli Studi “Mediterranea”
Roberto Mavilia
Bocconi University, CRIOS
Felice Arena
Vice Rector for ‘Technology Transfer’ and Professor of Ocean Engineering
Universita’ degli Studi “Mediterranea”
MAPS-LED Network
Carmelina Bevilacqua
Project Coordinator
Universita’ degli Studi “Mediterranea”
PAU
Massimiliano Ferrara
Contact Coordinator
Universita’ degli Studi “Mediterranea”
PAU
Vincenzo Provenzano
Contact Coordinator PAU
Universita’ degli Studi di Palermo
Michela Felicetti
Contact Coordinator PAU
Universita’ degli Studi e-Campus
Bruno Monardo
Professor in Urban Planning
Universita’ degli Studi “La Sapienza”
FOCUS
Christer Bengs
Professor in Spatial Planning
AALTO University (FI)
AALTO
Erik Bichard
Professor in Urban Regeneration
University of Salford (UK)
SOBE
Alan Dyer
Professor in Economics
Northeastern University of Boston (US)
NEUSUP
Nico Calavita
Professor in Community Planning
San Diego State University (US)
SDSU