1. The EU in the new complex geography of economic systems: models tools and policy evaluation COST Action IS1104 Meeting Lisbon 25-28 March 2013

2. Outline of the talk Today program Scientific workplan and activities (1st year) Scientific workplan and activities (2nd year) Webpage and infos 2 COST Action IS1104 Meeting - Lisbon 25-28 March 2013

3. TODAY PROGRAM Part I COST Action IS1104 Meeting - Lisbon 25-28 March 2013 3

4. Today program 12:30 – 13:10 Welcoming and presentation 13:10-13:30 Meeting of contributors to the book 13:30 – 15:00 Lunch Back at 15:00 for the WG sessions 20:30 dinner 4 COST Action IS1104 Meeting - Lisbon 25-28 March 2013

5. 1ST YEAR SCIENTIFIC WORKPLAN AND ACTIVITIES Part II COST Action IS1104 Meeting - Lisbon 25-28 March 2013 5

6. Aim of the Action to provide a better understanding of the EU as a complex, multi-level, evolving geographical system, taking duly into account the dynamic processes occuring within such a system and to develop improved strategies for EU regional policies 6 COST Action IS1104 Meeting - Lisbon 25-28 March 2013

7. Scientific Work plan: first year Assessment of the literature (New Economic Geography, Regional economics, strategic location of firms) Overview of the main analitycal tools (complex networks, nonlinear dynamics, agent based modelling, spatial econometrics) COST Action IS1104 Meeting - Lisbon 25-28 March 2013 7

8. First year activities 10 July Steering Committee (SC) Virtual meeting 18-19 September Urbino SC, Management Committee (MC) and Working Group (WG) meetings 20-22 September MDEF Workshop 25-28 March SC, MC and WG meetings Short term scientific missions (STSMs): 7 completed; 12 in progress or to be done COST Action IS1104 Meeting - Lisbon 25-28 March 2013 8

9. First Year main outputs MDEF proceedings Scientific reports from the STSMs Book of the Action Research papers and other contributions COST Action IS1104 Meeting - Lisbon 25-28 March 2013 9

10. 2ND YEAR SCIENTIFIC WORKPLAN AND ACTIVITIES Part II COST Action IS1104 Meeting - Lisbon 25-28 March 2013 10

11. Scientific workplan: second year Focus on:  WG1 multiregional models  WG2. Integration of financial and labour markets in more complex analytical structures  WG3 Developing models of firms strategic location  WG4 nonlinear dynamics, complex networks applied to spatial analysis COST Action IS1104 Meeting - Lisbon 25-28 March 2013 11

12. Working method 1: WG units COST Action IS1104 Meeting - Lisbon 25-28 March 2013 12 Working Group Leaders Research Topic Working Unit Research Topic

13. Working method 2: Networking COST Action IS1104 Meeting - Lisbon 25-28 March 2013 13

14. Main outputs Siena (Italy) NED Conference proceedings Scientific reports from the STSMs Action IS1104 Working paper series Training School (Madrid) Research papers and other contributions COST Action IS1104 Meeting - Lisbon 25-28 March 2013 14

15. WEBPAGE Part III COST Action IS1104 Meeting - Lisbon 25-28 March 2013 15

16. Webpage COST Action IS1104 Meeting - Lisbon 25-28 March 2013 16 Almost complete – updating Webmaster: Fabio Ceccarani Link: http://www.gecomplexity-cost.eu/http://www.gecomplexity-cost.eu/ Please add this link to your personal webpage

17. Skype contact and file sharing Official COST Skype contat: cost-usc Filesharing: dropbox, website COST Action IS1104 Meeting - Lisbon 25-28 March 2013 17

18. COST Action IS1104 Meeting - Lisbon 25-28 March 2013 18 Pasquale Commendatore University of Naples ‘Federico II’, Italy Chair of the Action IS1104 pasquale.commendatore@unina.it