The conference has a special focus on structural change in rural and urban economies. A non-exhaustve list of topics includes:
- Corona pandemic – regional impacts and policy strategies
- Effects of globalizaton and digitalizaton
- Entrepreneurship
- Place-based policies
- Populaton decline and migraton
- Provision of local public goods
- Public finances at local level
- Spatal disparites
- Spatal evoluton and distributon of economic actvites
Theoretical, empirical and policy-oriented contributions focussing on other topics related to regional science will be part of the programme as well.