**Deadline extended till 28/10** Call for Abstracts: The future of Collaborative Workspaces: a multi-scalar and interdisciplinary approach

European Conference, 23-24 January 2023, Romantso, Athens-Greece Introduction to Collaborative Workspaces This conference is oriented towards understanding collaborative workspaces (CWS) and exploring their current and future relationship with global trends, regional development, communities and individuals from the perspective of various disciplines. The purpose is to focus on the phenomenon of CWS (i.e. coworking spaces, makerspaces, […]

2nd CORAL Late Summer School 02.10.2022 – 06.10.2022 – Open Call for 5 PhD Candidates

“Levels of socio – economic impacts of CWS and their analysis” This school marks the start of the empirical stage of ESRs projects and aims at focusing on conceptual debates regarding peripherality and development, and link CWS to wider labour struggles in cities and beyond, understanding the turn towards platformization and commodification of labour. Keynote […]

CORAL Field Trip to the Western Region of Greece

The CORAL team visited the Western Region of Greece and met with representatives from the Region to discuss the development and implementation of Cultural Creative Industries, Social Entrepreneurship, and Collaborative Workspaces’ initiatives of the periphery. Fokion Zaimis, Deputy Governor of Entrepreneurship Research & Innovation, introduced ESRs to the evolution of the city of Patras and […]

Keynote speech by Prof. Dr. Andy Pike (Live): Reframing urban and regional development for ‘left behind’ place

Andy Pike’ keynote speech introduced the ‘left behind places’; places that contradict to the ‘superstar cities’discourses and unveil geographical inequalities. Aiming to produce a discussion for socio-cultural development beyond economic terms, ‘eft behind places’ study captures the urban and regional studies slow responses to times of crisis (Global financial crash, Great Recession 2008 –09, to […]

1st Coral School Agenda

All times CET 1st CORAL School Agenda 7/2/2022 Monday 10.00-11.30 Keynote speech: New working spaces and urban planning: reshaped perspectives? Divya Leducq, Universite de Tours, discussants: Helyaneh Aboutalebi Tabrizi and Costantino Romeo, CORAL ESRs 11.30-12.00 Coffee Break   12.00-13.30 Seminar: Designing and implementing surveys Vasilis Avdikos and Lorenzo Marmo, Panteion/ECHN 13.30-14.30 Lunch break   14.30-17.00 […]