SCORUS 2016 Lisbon Conference

Under the motto Indicators for territorial policies: closing data gaps by using traditional and new sources and methods, the 2016 SCORUS Conference aims to address the development and progress of regional and urban statistics under the scope of the cross-cutting issues that have been put forward in European and global agendas.

The territorial dimension has been set out as essential for the implementation of EU regional policy, aligned with Europe 2020 strategy, and new instruments were designed in order to reinforce place-based policies through cross-sectoral coordination of policies and multi-level governance from local to European level. Within the new 2014-2020 programming cycle specific needs of information, including at a detailed territorial level, arise for regional policy monitoring and evaluation.

The 2016 SCORUS Conference will be an opportunity to discuss the place of territorial statistics within the scope of the strategic challenges set up by the EU, OECD and UN agendas that include the use of administrative data, of geospatial information analysis and modelling, of multi-source statistics, open data and big data so as to produce relevant indicators for the monitoring of territorial policies.

The conference organisers would like to kindly invite you to submit a paper proposal for the SCORUS 2016 Conference in Lisbon. The deadline for abstract submission is 30 April 2016 and full papers should be submitted by 31 May 2016.

More information regarding paper submission is available on the SCORUS 2016 Conference website  http://scorus-lisbon2016.ine.pt.

Additional information regarding registration, venue and accommodation can also be found in the Conference website.

IMPORTANT DEADLINES:

• 30 April 2016 – Abstract submission
• 15 May 2016 – Abstract confirmation
• 31 May 2016 – Full paper submission

31 May 2016 – Registration