TiREG Conferences
TiREG researchers present their work at academic conferences in the Netherlands, such as those of the Netherlands Institute of Government (NIG), and abroad, such as those of the European Consortium for Political Research and the International Society of Public Law. They also give keynote speeches at practitioner conferences on the basis of their research.
Past conferences
EURA Annual Conference from 21-23 June 2017
From 21-23 June 2018, some 100 scholars and practitioners participated in the annual conference of the European Urban Research Association (EURA), this year organized by TiREG. The conference kicked off with a successful pre-conference PhD-workshop. In this workshop, some fifteen PhD students attended lectures, presented their work and received feedback by several senior academics.
During the main conference, the participants engaged in discussions on the conference theme 'Reconciling past and future urban and regional strengths'. Over 50 papers were being discussed in 25 parallel sessions, focusing on urban and regional governance and organization issues, citizenship, sustainable development, periphery regions, leadership, inter-organizational learning, and so on. A number of sessions also served as the academic outlet of the Tilburg NWO program ‘Smart Transformation of City-regional Law and Governance’ (co-funded by the province of Noord-Brabant).
The key note addressed titled “Innovations in place-based leadership: new frontiers for international urban and regional scholarship”, was delivered by professor Robin Hambleton (University of the West England, Bristol).
In two additional plenary sessions additional themes were being discussed. In the first, the CEOs of the city of Tilburg and the province of Noord-Brabant, Marcel Meijs en Marcel van Bijnen respectively, focussed on “Governance across borders: transformation and innovation in Noord-Brabant and Tilburg” (with a reflection by Filipe Teles). In the second plenary panel Antti Moisio (OECD) and Hans Mommaas (Director of the Netherlands Environmental Assessment and Spatial Planning Agency) addressed the theme “Making a difference? Asymmetric decentralization, differentiated regional governance and pluriformity in national urban policies” (reflections by Rob Atkinson, University of the West of England and Bas Denters, University of Twente).
Most of the participants attended one of the four field visits to the Tilburg Spoorzone (reconstruction of a former industrial area), the Piushaven (also in Tilburg), ‘Ons Koningsoord’ (new elderly care concept in former monastery) near Tilburg and the so-called Overdiepse Polder (farms on mounds in an area designated to store water in case of rivers flooding).
All-in-all, a great success, with special thanks to the city of Tilburg and the province of Noord-Brabant for their warm support, in several ways!
Regulatory Governance Conference from 5 to 8 July 2016
The Standing Group on Regulatory Governance of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) will hold its Sixth Biennial Conference, organized by Tilburg University, the Netherlands, from July 6 to 8, 2016. Several TiREG researchers are involved, including Johan Wolswinkel, Carlo Colombo, Philip Paiement, Sofia Ranchordas, Anne Meuwese and Martijn Groenleer.
The 2016 Biennial Conference will include a panel on ‘Regulatory Innovation From the Bottom Up: The Role of Local and Regional Actors, Networks and Institutions in Tackling Wicked Societal Issues’, organized by Carlo Colombo and chaired by Martijn Groenleer.
The Biennial Conference is the leading interdisciplinary conference on regulation and regulatory governance held in Europe, attracting researchers from all over the globe working in a wide range of disciplines including political science, law, business, sociology, economics, public administration, and other related disciplines.