CITIES AND ENHANCEMENT OF THEIR HISTORIC CENTRE AND HERITAGE: EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITIES’ AND VISITORS’ PERSPECTIVES

Isabel COSTA

UTAD/Centre for Transdisciplinary Development Studies (CETRAD), UTAD/Centre for Research and Intervention in Education (CIIE)

isacosta@utad.pt

Veronika JOUKES

UTAD/Centre for Transdisciplinary Development Studies (CETRAD)

veronika@utad.pt

Francisco DINIZ

UTAD/Centre for Transdisciplinary Development Studies (CETRAD)

fdiniz@utad.pt

Ana C. CANTANTE

UTAD/Centre for Transdisciplinary Development Studies (CETRAD)

acordeiro@utad.pt

Abstract

Several movements conceptualise cities’ educational, cultural and urban/regional/transnational development aspects, such as Educating Cities, Children’s City, or URBACT’s. Cultural tourism/Edutourism, seen as a non-formal, lifelong education formula led by the individuals, has also played an important role, enhancing the value of cities in the broader sense. Monitoring people’s opinion about the city and getting them to actively participate also enlightens those movements.  This paper presents a research on the renewal of Chaves’s historic centre (HC), whose rationale considered educational communities as partners. Results showed that teachers value urban renewal processes, while being critical, though. They emphasize the need for information and training. The HC should be a space for families to live in and is referred to as a multiple use educational resource.

Keywords: Cities and learning, historic centre renewal, municipalities and development, cultural/heritage tourism, educational communities’ participation

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INDICATORS AND A MECHANISM TO ENSURE ECONOMIC SECURITY OF THE REGIONS

Irina V. CHISTNIKOVA

сandidate of Economic Sciences, аssociate Professor at the Department of economics and the modeling of production processes, Belgorod State National Research University

Chistnikova@bsu.edu.ru

Marina V. ANTONOVA

сandidate of Economic Sciences, аssociate Professor at the Department of finance and customs income, Belgorod University of Cooperation, Economics and Law

Antonovamv@yandex.ru

Svetlana V. YAKIMCHUK

сandidate of Economic Sciences, аssociate Professor at the Department of economics and the modeling of production processes, Belgorod State National Research University

Yakimchuk@bsu.edu.ru

Anastasia S. GLOTOVA

сandidate of Economic Sciences, аssociate Professor at the Department of economics and the modeling of production processes, Belgorod State National Research University

Glotova@bsu.edu.ru

Yevgeniy A. DYNNIKOV

сandidate of Economic Sciences, аssociate Professor at the Department of economics and the modeling of production processes, Belgorod State National Research University

Dynnikov@bsu.edu.ru

Abstract

Economic security of regions is one of the most important components of national security of the state, for any state it is important to solve the problem of ensuring their economic security. To ensure the economic security of the regions it is necessary to develop mechanism and indicators. In article the system of indicators of economic security of the region. Considered signs of classification of the regions to identify threshold levels of performance indicators of economic security. The proposed mechanism of ensuring economic security of the region, the algorithm of development strategy of economic security, the stages of formation of system of economic security of the region.

Keywords: Economic security of the region, indicators of economic security, economic security, the region’s economy

JEL classification: O20, P25, R10

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REGIONAL STRATEGIES FOR DEALING WITH STRUCTURAL CHANGE

Eleonora CUTRINI

Associate Professor, Department of Law, University of Macerata

eleonora.cutrini@unimc.it

Enzo VALENTINI

Research Fellow,Department of Political Sciences, Communication and International Relations, University of Macerata

enzo.valentini@unimc.it

Abstract

In recent decades, the low economic performance of European countries has been mainly responsible for the emergence of an economic policy increasingly intended to strengthen the innovative and technology capacity of regions. In particular, the European periphery is lagging behind in the transition to a knowledge driven and eventually service-oriented economy. In a general context of de-industrialization and transition to service economy, and bearing in mind the policy debate at the EU level, the aim of this paper is to analyze the factors driving knowledge-intensive service specialization at the regional level in Italy. Our main research questions here can be summarized as follows: What determines the transition to Services and the specialization in Knowledge-Intensive Services (KIS) in Italy? What are the structural characteristics that may explain the regional variation of employment share in high-knowledge services? Using data on Italian regions over the period 1995-2014 (and spatial panel models as a methodology), the analysis carried out in the paper suggests some considerations: the “mere” (but needed) transition to service activities can be positively associated with R&D Personnel, Tertiary Education, University Attractiveness, Tourism and efficient infrastructure (Railroad). But the transition to Knowledge Intensive Services, supposed to pay higher wages, may deserve a more appropriate and focused public intervention, in view of the fact that it seems to be mainly associated with Public R&D, Tertiary Education and University Attractiveness.

Keywords: Structural Change, Specialization, Spatial Panels, Regional Economy

JEL classification: I25, O32, R11, R12

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