2022 notable regional science conferences in Hungary - Report on the 61st ERSA congress & 20th HRSA annual meeting

Abstract

61ST ERSA CONGRESSTwo notable scientific events were organized by the Hungarian Regional Science Association in the year 2022 in Hungary. The report presents them in a chronological order. In 2022, Pécs, Hungary was home to the Annual Congress of the European Regional Science Association (ERSA). The ERSA Congress titled "Disparities in a Digitalising (Post-Covid) world -Networks, Entrepreneurship and Regional Development" hosted a large variety of themes in entrepreneurship, socio-economics, regional-urban economics, regional development, and regional policy related topics such as local governance and institutions. A chief ambition of the Congress was to achieve a stronger interdisciplinary dimension, featuring contributions and data from social sciences and entrepreneurship. With approximately 800 participants every year from all continents, ERSA Congresses have become the largest-scale academic conferences in regional science worldwide.With its prominent history going back to 1982, ERSA is one of the most prestigious scientific societies in regional science and the largest supranational section of the Regional Science Association International (RSAI) at the same time. For the first time in its history, the annual congress of ERSA was held virtually and in-person simultaneously. (Due to the COVID pandemic in the previous year, the congress was held online.

Twenty years of the Hungarian Regional Science Association in numbers

“…Economics of the University of Pécs. The Congress in numbers: 49 countries, 714 presentations, 39 general and 59 thematic sessions (Egyed et al, 2022).…”