CORAL Introductory Event Agenda

Date: 20-24/9/2021 Time: 10.30 – 17.00

PROJECT

CORAL – ITN,
Grant Agreement no: No 955907, 01/2020-12/2023

DAY 1 (20/09/2021)

Time (CEST)	Session title
10.30 – 11.00	CORAL’s aim and mission	Vasilis Avdikos, Consortium Coordinator – Panteion University
11.00 – 12.30	Keynote speech: The rise of CWS in cities and beyond (Facebook Live Streaming)	Janet Merkel – TU Berlin/ University of Kassel. Discussants: Ignasi Capdevila – PSB, Iliaria Mariotti – POLIMI, Suntje Schmidt – IRS
12.30 – 13.30	Break
13.30 – 15.00	Seminar: Ethics and responsible research in social sciences	Martha Michailidou – Panteion University
15.00 – 17.00	Digital Socializing *	Moderated by SACCI
End of Day 1

DAY 2 (21/09/2021)

Time (CEST)	Session title
11.00 – 12.30	Keynote speech: Core concepts of rurality and peripherality in the EU	Annett Steinführer – Thünen Institute. Discussants: Ulrich Ermann – University of Graz, Vasilis Avdikos – Panteion
12.30 – 13.30	Break
13.30 – 15.30	WP1 – presentation of PhD topics	Chair: Thilo Lang, WP Leader – IfL
15.30 – 15.45	Break
15.45 – 17.00	Seminar: Introduction to Quantitative and Qualitative Methodologies	Ilaria Mariotti – POLIMI
End of Day 2

DAY 3 (22/09/2021)

Time (CEST)	Session title
11.00 – 12.30	Roundtable discussion: Doing a PhD in social sciences	CORAL supervisors
12.30 – 13.30	Break
13.30 – 14.45	Seminar: Developing research questions to inform research design	Gary Bosworth – Northumbria University
14.45 – 15.00	Break
15.00 – 17.00	WP2 – presentation of PhD topics	Chair: Ilaria Mariotti, WP Leader – POLIMI
End of Day 3

DAY 4 (23/09/2021)

Time (CEST)	Session title
10.30 – 11.00	Being an ESR: obligations and expectations	Thilo Lang – IfL
11.00 – 12.30	Keynote speech: Rural coworking: people, models, trends (Facebook Live Streaming)	Juli Biemann, CoWorkland. Discussants: Suntje Schmidt – IRS, Ignasi Capdevila – PSB, Vasilis Avdikos – Panteion
12.30 – 13.30	Break
13.30 – 14.45	Discussion with former MSCA – ITN ESRs	Chair: Suntje Schmidt – IRS
14.45 – 15.00	Break
15.00 – 17.00	WP3 – presentation of PhD topics	Chair: Ignasi Capdevila, WP Leader – PSB
End of Day 4

DAY 5 (24/09/2021)

Time (CEST)	Session title
11.00 – 12.30	SB meeting/ ESR meeting (ESR rep. elections)	In different zoom rooms
12.30 – 13.30	Break
13.30 – 14.45	Seminar: Intellectual Property Rights and research in social sciences	Marina Markellou, Attorney – IPR specialist
14.45 – 15.00	Break
15.00 – 16.30	Roundtable discussion: Managing a CWS; challenges from inside	Vasilis Charalambidis – ECHN, Sarah Stamatiou Nichols – IHG, Martin Hollinetz – Otelo
16.30 – 17.00	Discussion on the outputs of the Introductory event	Chair: Ignasi Capdevila and all supervisors and ESRs
End of Introductory Event
Please note that only the two keynote speeches will be open to the public and will be live streamed through the CORAL-ITN Facebook page.

Keynote Speakers

Janet Merkel

Dr Janet Merkel is an urban sociologist and post-doc researcher working at the Chair of Urban and Regional Economics at the Institute of Urban and Regional Planning at Technical University Berlin. From 2015-2018 she has held a lectureship position (assistant professor) for CCIs at City, University of London. She also held research positions at the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB) in the research unit ‘Cultural Sources of Newness’ and at the Centre for Cultural Policy at Hertie School of Governance. Her research interests include new forms of work organization (coworking), CCIs, creative labour, urban politics and governance for culture and creative industries and cultural planning.

Annett Steinführer

Dr Annett Steinführer is a rural scholar with a background in urban sociology and geography - which she finds a perfect combination to consistently (re)consider urban-rural linkages but also the development of villages or small towns as such. Her spatial focus is on Europe, particularly on Central Europe. But above all, she is interested in people - their sense-making, narrations, the decisions they take and the intended and unintended consequences of their actions. This is a never-ending inspiration for social research!

Gary Bosworth

Professor Gary Bosworth is Research Lead in the Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Strategy and part of the iNCITE research centre at Northumbria University. As an active researcher in the fields of rural entrepreneurship and regional economic development, he serves on DEFRA's Rural Academic Advisory Panel and on the North East Rural Innovation Steering Group. He is also co-chair of ISBE's Rural Entrepreneurship Network and a Fellow of the Regional Studies Association. Gary leads modules on Contemporary Issues in Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneurial Ecosytems and Policy and supports research methods teaching and dissertation supervision.

Juli Biemann

At CoWorkLand, Juli Biemann is responsible for CoWorkNet, an initiative for networking and advising potential coworking space founders in the region of Lüneburg in Lower Saxony. After studying interdisciplinary Border Studies with a strong spatial focus, she is fascinated by the emergence of coworking spaces as Third Places in rural areas, where a wide variety of people can network and share ideas, knowledge and motivations.

Marina Markellou

Dr. Marina Markellou is an attorney qualified in Greece specialized in IP law, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Panteion University (department of Communication, Media and Culture) and Adjunct Lecturer of Law at the Open Hellenic University and the University of Nicosia. Since 2010 see is associate with P. Markellos & Associates. She specialises in IP law, Cultural Heritage Law, civil and data protection law and advises on all contentious and non-contentious matters in these areas.