Next up for our Closing Plenary: How Can People Who Work in Universities Shape Regional Policy with Louise Kempton #RSA

Day 2 and our second plenary, The Future of Regional Policy is just starting. We are looking forward to a stimulating session on the challenges of regional policy in Europe.

The #RSA25 Annual Conference just started with inspiring talks on European cohesion policy by Elisa Ferreira, measures beyond GDP for human development by Pedro Conceicão, new approaches for RIS by Michael Trippl and insights on discontent and wealth inequality in the Global South by Zhiwu Wei.

Today ((Wed, 15-17, 218) @grothjuliane.bsky.social and Lukas Willing will give you insights into their index of Saxonian municipalities (NUTS5-level) that measures multiple dimensions of perceived left-behindedness, an important basis for testing the relation to discontent and funding .

We Can’t Predict How Many People Will Move Because of Climate Change, and That’s Okay Climate change will impact migration patterns. Numerous efforts have been made to quantify the scale and timelines of this impact. This is quite sensible. Policies are better when we know where their ...

We can't predict how many people will move because of climate change, and that's ok.

Models can still be used for generating local/short-term scenarios, but shouldn't be relied on / believed when they spit out big numbers.

www.cgdev.org/blog/we-cant...