On May 21, 2010 IUE together with the Department of Urban Economics and Municipal Governance of the State University – Higher School of Economics and the Embassy of France in Moscow will organize a French-Russian round table discussion on “Urban Areas: Between Competition and Cooperation” at the SU-HSE. The discussion will focus on issues relating to inter-municipal cooperation, trends of territorial development and territorial marketing.

Lead reporters:

• Edmond Preteceille, a sociologist, Director of Research of CNRS, Observatoire Sociologique du Changement at Sciences-Po, Paris.
• Clement Fourchy, Deputy Director of «Service Public 2000»
• Vincent Gollan, Director for Urban Areas Attractiveness Improvement, Regional Agency for Development, Paris Ile-de-France.

Participants:

• S.S. Artobolevsky, Head of the Socio-Economic Geography Section of the Institute of Geography under the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Science (Geography), member of the Science Council, a consultant for INDEM foundation
• A.S. Puzanov, General Director of IUE, Ph.D. (Geography), Associate Professor, Head of the Department of Urban Economics and Municipal Governance of the SU-HSE
• G.Yu. Vetrov, Director of the “Municipal Economic Development” Department of IUE, Ph.D. (Economics), Associate Professor of the Department of Urban Economics and Municipal Governance of the SU-HSE
• L.G. Ragozina, Chief Expert of the “Municipal Economic Development” Department of IUE
• D.V. Vizgalov, Project Manager of the “Municipal Economic Development” Department of IUE, Ph.D. (Geography), Associate Professor of the Department of Urban Economics and Municipal Governance of the SU-HSE
• S.I. Rybalchenko, a member of the Public Council of the Central Federal District, a teacher at the Department of Urban Economics and Municipal Governance of the SU-HSE

Starts at 3 p.m.

Working languages: Russian and French; simultaneous interpreting will be provided.

The number of participants is limited. Registration is mandatory and must be preceded by an application with your name, the name of your organization and your position; for students – name, name of institute, faculty and year of studies. Applications shall be sent to ygulyaeva@hse.ru. If you have no entrance permit to the SU-HSE, you should mention this in your application.

Address: 20 Myasnitskaya Street, Room 311.