participation with TEAGASG (Ireland), the National University of Ireland in Galway
(Ireland), the Institute of Spatial Planning, University of Dortmund (Germany),
Spiekermann and Wegener, Urban and Regional Research (Germany), the Department
of Geography of the University of Valencia (Spain), the Seinajoki Institute for Rural
Research and Training of the University of Helsinki (Finland) and the Department of
Economics of the University of Patras (Greece).
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