Page1 International Conference Socio-Economic Sustainability, Regional Development and Spatial Planning: Program 4-7 July, 2014 Mytilene, Lesvos, Greece Conference jointly organized by: Τhe Laboratory of Economic Geography, Regional Development and Territorial Planning, Department of Geography, University of the Aegean, http://www.geo.aegean.gr/greek/labs/research/economic.htm "Ergaxia", Sociology of Labor Academic Laboratory, Department of Sociology, University of the Aegean, http://www.aegean.gr/ergaxia//ergaxia.html International Sociological Association (ISA), Research Committee on Sociotechnics /Sociological Practice (RC26), www.isasociology.org, www.rc26isa.wordpress.com
Page2 Program at a glance Friday, July 4, 2014 (Venue: Municipality Theater Main Building, Kountourioti Pavlou 3, Mytilene) 18:00 to 20:00 Opening Ceremony 09:30 to 10:00 Registration Saturday, July 5, 2014 (Venue: Department of Geography, University Hill, Mytilene) 10:00 to 12:00 Parallel Session 1.1: Policies and Practices for Sustainable Growth 10:00 to 12:00 Parallel Session 1.2: Socio-Economic Sustainable Growth and Regional Development 12:00 to 14:00 Parallel Session 1.3: Regional and Territorial Governance: Economic and Social Policies 12:00 to 14:00 Parallel Session 1.4: Social Economy Innovations and Sustainable Communities 14:00 to 15:00 Lunch Break 15:00 to 17:00 Parallel Session 1.5: Inclusive Recovery and Local City Governance 15:00 to 17:00 Parallel Session 1.6: Territorial Innovation and Planning Policies: Regions and Enterprises 17:00 to 19:00 Key-Note Speech 20:00 to 22:00 Formal Evening Reception (by invitation only) 09:30 to 10:00 Registration Sunday, July 6, 2014 (Venue: Department of Geography, University Hill, Mytilene) 10:00 to 12:00 Parallel Session 2.1: Local and Global social dimensions in Sustainable Development 10:00 to 12:00 Parallel Session 2.2: Innovative Community and Social Development 12:00 to 14:00 Parallel Session 2.3: Entrepreneurship and Regional Development: Policy and Planning 12:00 to 14:00 Parallel Session 2.4: Sustainable Communities: Social Development and Education 14:00 to 15:00 Lunch Break 15:00 to 17:00 Parallel Session 2.5: Cultural Management, Local Heritage and Local Development 15:00 to 17:00 Parallel Session 2.6: New Types and Policies of Sustainable Growth: Case Studies and Applied Research 17:00 to 19:00 Round Table Monday, July 7, 2014 10:30 to 17:00 Excursion to Plomari (Optional)
Page3 Program in detail Friday, July 4, 2014 (Venue: : Municipality Theater Main Building, Kountourioti Pavlou 3, Mytilene) 18:00 to 20:00 Opening Ceremony 09:30 to 10:00 Registration Saturday, July 5, 2014 (Venue: Department of Geography, University Hill, Mytilene) 10:00 to 12:00 Parallel Session 1.1: : Policies and Practices for Sustainable Growth Chairing: Abhishek Singh Shekhawat & José G. Vargas-Hernández 10:00 to 10:20 SMEs and Local Development: The case of Greece, Fragkiskos Xirouchakis 10:20 to 10:40 Investing in Human Capital: An Implication of Mincer Equation, Olga Papadopoulou 10:40 to 11:00 The Impact of the Golden Quadrilateral Project on Performance of Indian Manufacturing Firms, Abhishek Singh Shekhawat, S. K. Mathur 11:00 to 11:20 Development Strategy in the Northern State of Jalisco from the Institutional Perspective, José G. Vargas-Hernández 11:20 to 11:40 The effectiveness of the adoption of EU policies by Greece with respect to innovation and entrepreneurship on the SMEs performance and their pace of recovery from the economic crisis, Katis Panagiotis 11:40 to 12:00 Discussion 10:00 to 12:00 Parallel Session 1.2: Socio-Economic Sustainable Growth and Regional Development, Chairing: Habib ur Rahman, Sarhad & Nicola Boccella 10:00 to 10:20 Global Ethics and Economic Prosperity, Habib ur Rahman, Sarhad 10:20 to 10:40 European methodological approaches and practices for sustainable urban development, Nicola Boccella, Irene Salerno 10:40 to 11:00 A Theory of Innovation and Regional Growth, George M. Korres, Kourliouros Elias, Polychronopoulos George and Aikaterini Kokkinou 11:00 to 11:20 Regional Planning Deficiencies and Counter-Sustainability in 1980s Greece, Kourliouros Elias, Kokkinou Aikaterini and Korres George 11:20 to 11:40 A Web based evaluation system for participatory spatial planning, Elias Grammatikogiannis, Maria Giaoutzi 11:40 to 12:00 Discussion 12:00 to 14:00 Parallel Session 1.3: Regional and Territorial Governance: Economic and Social Policies, Chairing: Proikaki Marina & Karina Zawieja-Żurowska 12:00 to 12:20 Incorporating social indicators of sustainability in public policies for environmentally degraded areas: The case of the Asopos river, Proikaki Marina, Jones Nikoleta, Nagopoulos Nikos, Chatziantoniou Maria, Evangelinos Konstantinos 12:20 to 12:40 Estimating the Willingness to Pay for Environmental Resources in the Chilean Patagonia, Juan-Pedro Garces-Voisenat, Zinnia Mukherjee 12:40 to 13:00 Built-up area expansion assessment via soil Sealing Pattern Evaluation: Evidence from
Page4 the North & South Aegean islands, Georgios Tsilimigkas, Thanasis Kizos, Sofia Karampela 13:00 to 13:20 Spatial Differentiation of Housing Problems in the European Union, Karina Zawieja- Żurowska, Artur Zimny 13:20 to 13:40 Reviewing the Housing Market- Submarkets from a demographic perspective, Dimitris Kyriakidis 13:40 to 14:00 Discussion 12:00 to 14:00 Parallel Session 1.4: Social Economy Innovations and Sustainable Communities, Chairing: Georgios Tsobanoglou & Maria P. Michailidis 12:00 to 12:20 Social Economy Innovation and Sustainable Local Development, Aristea Alexiou 12:20 to 12:40 Social Networking: Unemployed, their Employability and Social Support, Maria P. Michailidis, Evie Michailidis and George K. Ganztias 12:40 to 13:00 Citizen s Participation and the Crisis of Representation in Europe. Models of Citizen Participation and the Quest for Local Democracy, Georgios Tsobanoglou and Hans Harms 13:00 to 13:20 Work Participatory Regimes in the Greek Archipelago: Current Challenges at a time of financial crisis, Georgios Tsobanoglou and Eirini Ioanna Vlachopoulou 13:20 to 13:40 International dimensions of fisheries co-management, Eirini Ioanna Vlachopoulou, George O. Tsobanoglou 13:40 to 14:00 Discussion 14:00 to 15:00 Lunch Break 15:00 to 17:00 Parallel Session 1.5: Inclusive Recovery and Local City Governance, Chairing: Lila Leontidou & Giannopoulou Ioanna 15:00 to 15:20 Flexible employment accounts and the neglect of the informal dimension during the crisis: evidence from Southern EU regions, Lila Leontidou, Stelios Gialis 15:20 to 15:40 Social and Psychological consequences of HPV diagnosis: The chronicle of a modern stigma, Efstratios Papanis, Panagiotis Papalambros 15:40 to 16:00 The contribution of e-mentoring programs to the professional development of novice teachers, Eirini Myrsini Papani, Efstratios Papanis 16:00 to 16:20 Economic Crisis Impacts Upon Child Mental Health, Giannopoulou Ioanna, Tsobanoglou Georgios 16:20 to 16:40 Current trends in vocational development and the role of the European Qualification Framework (EQF) and the ECVET framework. Cooperative Skills in focus of a Leonardo Program, Tsobanoglou Georgios & George M. Korres 16:40 to 17:00 Discussion 15:00 to 17:00 Parallel Session 1.6: Territorial Innovation and Planning Policies: Regions and Enterprises, Chairing: Anastasia Stratigea & Aikaterini Kokkinou 15:00 to 15:20 Traditional vs. Web-based Participatory Tools in Support of Spatial Planning in Laggingbehind Peripheral Regions, Chrysaida - Aliki Papadopoulou & Anastasia Stratigea 15:20 to 15:40 R&D, Patenting and the Greek SMEs, Maria Markatou 15:40 to 16:00 Technological Abilities and Regional Growth: Evidence from the EU, Alexiadis S. Stilianos, Olga Gioti Papadaki, Christos Ap. Ladias
Page5 16:00 to 16:20 A Stochastic Frontier Approach on Technical Efficiency and Regional Growth, Aikaterini Kokkinou and Kostantinos Tsamadias 16:20 to 16:40 Functional Urban Regions and Larger Urban Zones in Greece: The deficient and fuzzy definition of an essential spatial unit, Spyros Anagnostou 16:40 to 17:00 Discussion 17:00 to 19:00 KEY NOTE SPEECH, Sergio Arzeni, Director of the OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) and Local Development. The Centre oversees the work of the Local Economic and Employment Development programme (LEED), the Working Party on SMEs and Entrepreneurship, the Tourism Committee, and the OECD LEED Trento Centre for Local Development (Italy). 20:00 to 22:00 Formal Evening Reception (by invitation only) 09:30 to 10:00 Registration Sunday, July 6, 2014 (Venue: Department of Geography, University Hill, Mytilene) 10:00 to 12:00 Parallel Session 2.1: Local and Global social dimensions in Sustainable Development, Chairing: Rainer Rothfuss & Sidiropoulos, Georgios 10:00 to 10:20 Electro mobility and Pedelecs: Spatial reconfiguration of the transport system?, Rainer Rothfuss, Jessica Le Bris 10:20 to 10:40 Smart Cities as a New Paradigm for Serving Urban Sustainability Objectives A View in the Mediterranean Experience, Anastasia Stratigea & Maria Panagiotopoulou 10:40 to 11:00 Seeking the international role of Athens in the context of globalization, Emmanuel V. Marmaras 11:00 to 11:20 Identifying the forms of Gentrification in the Athenian Landscape, Stergiou, Margarita, Sidiropoulos, Georgios 11:20 to 11:40 Everyday urban mobility and urban form. Cases studies in Nikaia and Dionysos (Athens Metropolitan Area), Christy (Chryssanthi) Petropoulou 11:40 to 12:00 Discussion 10:00 to 12:00 Parallel Session 2.2: Innovative Community and Social Development, Chairing: Flaminia Sacca, Deim & Electra Petracou 10:00 to 10:20 Evaluation and Choice of University Courses Using the Analytic Hierarchy Process Decision Making Method, C. Frangos, Con. Fragkos, I. Sotiropoulos, I.Manolopoulos 10:20 to 10:40 Social policy implementation of Kallikratis program: Review and critique, Leotsakos Andreas, Athanasiadi Elena, Obaidou P.Antonia, Hasanagas Nikolaos
Page6 10:40 to 11:00 Bentham and Monge in duality: Uncertainty, subjectivity and group decision making, Electra Petracou and Athanasios N. Yannacopoulos 11:00 to 11:20 The glocality of political cultures, Flaminia Sacca, Deim 11:20 to 11:40 Developing the Social Economy in member states: The European Coop Campus Project, Georgios Tsobanoglou, George Korres 11:40 to 12:00 Discussion 12:00 to 14:00 Parallel Session 2.3: Entrepreneurship and Regional Development: Policy and Planning, Chairing: Charalampos Botsaris & Maria Markatou 12:00 to 12:20 Incentives to Promote Entrepreneurship in Greece: Results Based on the New Innovative Entrepreneurship Program, Maria Markatou, Yannis Stournaras 12:20 to 12:40 Business Model Innovation as Antecedent of Sustainable Enterprise Excellence and Resilience, Elias G. Carayannis, Vangelis Grigoroudis, Stavros Sindakis, Christian Walter 12:40 to 13:00 Dimensions of Entrepreneurial Behavioural Beliefs, Attitude Toward Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneurial Intention, Vasiliki Vamvaka, Charalampos Botsaris 13:00 to 13:20 A Structural Equation Model of the Relations Among Behavioural Beliefs, Attitude Toward Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneurial Intention, Vasiliki Vamvaka, Charalampos Botsaris 13:20 to 13:40 Managing corporate culture through sociotechnical approach: a Russian perspective, Belyaeva, Ksenya, Burmykina, Irina 13:40 to 14:00 Discussion 12:00 to 14:00 Parallel Session 2.4: Sustainable Communities: Social Development and Education, Chairing: Charalambos Louca & Giavrimis Panagiotis 12:00 to 12:20 Measuring Efficiency in Education: The DEA Method, Charalambos Louca, Aliki Dimosthenous 12:20 to 12:40 School Bullying as a Social Construction, Soulioti Ioulia, Chatzigianni Evanthia, Giavrimis Panagiotis 12:40 to 13:00 Intercultural interactions in compulsory education in Chios island, Tsagkatos Emmanouil, Giavrimis Panagiotis, Sargioti Vicky 13:00 to 13:20 The Educational Policy in 60s and 70s Greece: Ideology and Discipline, Kouraki Anna, Giavrimis Panagiotis, Chatzigianni Evanthia 13:20 to 13:40 TBA 13:40 to 14:00 Discussion 14:00 to 15:00 Lunch Break
Page7 15:00 to 17:00 Parallel Session 2.5: Cultural Management, Local Heritage and Local Development, Chairing: Panoraia Poulaki & Ekaterini Nikolarea 15:00 to 15:20 Cultural Tourism and Ottoman Monuments in Chios, Greece, Panoraia Poulaki, Maria Ntoumi, Dimitrios Lagos 15:20 to 15:40 Tourism Industry and Economic Growth: Time-Series Evidence from France, Charalambos Louca 15:40 to 16:00 Cultural Policy and Management in Cultural Organizations: Regulations and the Public Interest, George K. Ganztias 16:00 to 16:20 Evolving Individual Bilingualism vis-à-vis Individual Mobility, Ekaterini Nikolarea 16:20 to 16:40 TBA 16:40 to 17:00 Discussion 15:00 to 17:00 Parallel Session 2.6: New Types and Policies of Sustainable Growth: Case Studies and Applied Research, Chairing: Kiran Prasad & Efstratios Papanis 15:00 to 15:20 Currency Areas as Games, Nicholas A. Yannacopoulos 15:20 to 15:40 Communicating the Green Path to Sustainable Development: Experiences from India-EU Partnerships, Kiran Prasad 15:40 to 16:00 Hollowing out of the state and the different forms of voluntary participation in Greek Non- Governmental Organizations, Yiannis Ioannides 16:00 to 16:20 Infection by Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) in Males and Females and social stigma, Panagiotis Papalambros and Efstratios Papanis 16:20 to 16:40 Entrepreneurs beliefs on sustainable tourism practices: evidence from Karditsa and Kalabaka Sardianou E., Kostakis I., Mitoula R., Theodoropoulou E., Gkaragkani V. and Lalioti E 16:40 to 17:00 Discussion 17:00 to 19:00 Round Table: Financial Crisis and Socio-Economic Growth: Urban and Regional Development and planning Policies for Sustainable Growth Monday, July 7, 2014 10:30 to 17:30 Excursion to Plomari (Optional)
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