Presentations

Registration

Workshop opening

Ilona Pálné Kovács (CERS HAS Institute for Regional Studies, Hungary): The story with the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the centralization in Hungary

Carlos Nunes Silva (University of Lisbon, Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, Portugal): 35 Years of Local and Urban Governance Research 1984-2019

Plenary session

Pawel Swianiewicz (University of Warsaw, Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies, Poland): Municipal territorial reforms in Europe of 21st century – the dominant discourse of the reforms

Coffee break

Panel 1 – Theory of decentralisation

Chair: Carlos Nunes Silva (University of Lisbon, Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, Portugal)

Ludmila Malikova (Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia): Trends , advantages and disadvantages of decentralization in Slovakia

Ivaldo Lima (Fluminense Federal University, Department of Geography, Brazil): Challenges of territorial governance: concentrated decentralization in Brazil

Mariusz Wiktor Sienkiewicz (Marie Curie Sklodowska University, Faculty of Political Science, Poland): Determinants and effects of the process of decentralization of public administration in Poland - do we need a redefinition of the adopted model?

Anna Trono (University of Salento, Italy): A new governance in the tourism sector in Italy

Lunch

Panel 2 – Dynamism (process) of decentralisation reforms

Chair: Ilona Pálné Kovács (CERS HAS Institute for Regional Studies, Hungary)

Carlos Nunes Silva (University of Lisbon, Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, Portugal): Decentralization in Africa: the case of Angola and Mozambique

Iwona Sagan, Jakub H. Szlachetko (University of Gdansk, Faculty of Oceanography and Geography, Poland): Recentralization processes in Poland: the governmental policy of small steps

Ágnes Simon (University of Pécs, Department of Political Science and International Studies, Hungary): Regionalism, decentralization, regional elections in France

Rassem Khamaisi (University of Haifa, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Israel): Decentralization under siege

Coffee break

Panel 3 – Cities in multi-level governance

Chair: Anna Trono (University of Salento. Italy)

Edit Somlyódyné Pfeil (Széchenyi István University, Kautz Gyula Faculty of Economics, Hungary): New methods of centralisation – The case of the Hungarian self-government system

Bartosz Bartosiewicz, Katarzyna Leśniewska-Napierała (University of Lodz, Faculty of Geographical Sciences, Poland): Towards recentralization – remarks on the institutionalization of cooperation in metropolitan areas in Poland

Ira Bliatka (Institute for Democracy 21, Czech Republic): Revisiting the Urban Renewal - Public Participation nexus: the Case of Euroméditerranée and Marseille’s Marche aux Puces

Dragoș Dragoman (Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania): Territorial reform initiatives and failures in Romania: a longitudinal analysis

End of day 1

Joint dinner

Day 2 - 10 May 2019 (Friday)

Panel 4 – Development policy and decentralisation

Chair: László Kákai (University of Pécs, Faculty of Humanities, Hungary)

István Finta (CERS HAS Institute for Regional Studies, Hungary): Decentralization and territorial approach in the European Union's regulation

Łukasz Mikuła (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Institute of Socio-Economic Geography and Spatial Management, Poland): Metropolitan spatial planning as a challenge of decentralization in Central Eastern Europe

Boglárka Barsi (CERS HAS Institute for Regional Studies, Hungary): Possibilities and barriers of smart city development in rural areas – examples from Hungary and Slovakia

Zsuzsanna Zsibók (CERS HAS Institute for Regional Studies, Hungary): Tackling territorial inequalities through devolution and decentralisation – The case of the United Kingdom around the time of Brexit

Coffee break

Panel 5 – Public policies and decentralisation

Chair: Iwona Sagan (University of Gdansk, Faculty of Oceanography and Geography, Poland)

Tamás Vasvári (University of Pécs, Faculty of Business and Economics, Hungary): Decentralization and soft budget constraint: How important is the coincidence of beneficiaries and payers?

Leonardo Letelier S., Hector Ormeño C. (University of Chile, Institute of Public Affairs, Chile): Education and Decentralization in Chile. A multilevel analysis

László Kákai (University of Pécs, Faculty of Humanities, Hungary): Changes in local public services in Hungary in terms of decentralization

Judit Keller (CERS HAS Institute for Regional Studies, Hungary): The limits of place-based initiatives in (re)centralised regimes

Closing session

Lunch

Post-conference excursion in Pécs downtown and the Zsolnay Quartier