4-year fully funded PhD position ‘Recipes for local and regional economic development across Europe’ at the University of Groningen supervised by Prof. Florian Noseleit, dr. Daniël Speldekamp, and dr. Benito Giordano. Application deadline: June 26.
Reducing regional economic disparities is one of the European Union’s core foundational aims, yet inequality persists. This project investigates the reasons for these regional disparities and seeks to offer recommendations on how the EU’s core regional policy can be structured to address these issues. This relates to themes such as cross-regional collaboration, interregional alliances, and smart specialization. To illustrate, although regions’ specialization strategies aim to identify their core strengths and focus policy towards them, they currently lead to mimicry of Europe’s core regions. A more contextually sensitive approach that prioritizes growth paths has the power to unlock growth and develop regional opportunity ‘recipes’ in both the core, and periphery of the EU.
You can apply using this link: https://www.rug.nl/about-ug/work-with-us/job-opportunities/?details=00347-02S000AUIP . For more information, please contact Daniël Speldekamp (d.speldekamp@rug.nl).