The workshop aimed at fostering an interdisciplinary debate involving economists, statisticians, modellers and other social scientists towards a better understanding of contemporary regions and cities, viewed as complex socio-economic systems.

It encouraged contributions about new theoretical/methodological approaches and applied research from regional economics, behavioural economics, environmental economics, experimental economics, statistics and other quantitative disciplines.

Some possible topics applied to regional and urban themes:behavioural economics, digital transformation, environmental economics, experimental economics, inequality, innovation and competitiveness, migration, nudging, regional divide, regional economic adjustment and development, small areas, social exclusion, social mobility, spatial modelling/statistics/econometrics.