Selective Migration and Unbalanced Sex Ratio in Rural Regions
The activities of the Great Plain Research Department in the ESPON SEMIGRA project have been successfully completed. The research was motivated by the fact that the gendered out-migration result in a ‘deficit’ of young women in the peripheral, mostly underdeveloped rural regions of Europe. The international consortium studied the reasons for and effects of this phenomenon and the expectations of young people in 5 regions of 4 countries, as well as submitted proposals for gender-specific regional development strategies.
Integrated Urban Development of Vital Historic Towns as Regional Centres in South East Europe
The objective of the project was developing historical towns to remain attractive places by preserving their heritage and improving the quality of public spaces, and meanwhile, to retain their role as regional centres, i.e. foci of economic activities, social inclusion and identity. To achieve it, the project was focused on capacity building of local governments and other stakeholders to develop good urban governance practices in planning and implementing revitalization. The Békéscsaba Department supported the transnational cooperation in the project, to facilitate the share of existing knowledge and best practices as well as to work parallel on different tasks of urban development in a higher intensity and such with a broader added value for the SEE area. The RCERS team worked on transnational knowledge management and exchange in cooperation with the researchers of the Primorska University (Koper) and of the Technical University of Kaiserslautern, moreover, with local experts of urban planning and management in 9 towns/regions within the SEE area.
