Research Group Regional Development (Prof. Dr. Tobias Chilla)

The Regional Development Working Group has its focus in partiuclar on the following fields:

European Spatial Development – Border Studies:

Firstly, we focus on the European dimension of regional development. Border regions and the Alpine area are the most prominent geographical focus. Project examples:

• BMBF CoBo (Cohesion in Border Regions), 2021-23, with Hochschule St. Gallen
• 9th Report on the State of the Alps (RSA9): Alpine Towns. On behalf of the Swiss presidency of the Alpine Convention (2021-2022)
• ESPON Alps2050 – Common Spatial Perspectives for the Alpine Area. Towards a Common Vision (2017/18, Lead Partner)
• Cross-border mobility in the Alpine Region (WP2) [Alpine Region Preparatory Action Fund] , 2018.
• ESPON ACTAREA: Thinking and planning in areas of territorial cooperation (with Spatial Foresight and University of Geneva, 2016/17)
• Entwicklungsgutachten für den bayerisch-tschechischen Grenzraum mit Grontmij München u.a., i.A. des Bayerischen Heimatministeriums – 2015/16

Regional Economic Geography: 

Secondly, we analyse economic and spatial development from a regional perspective. Project examples:

• BMBF Reprola (2018-23): Regionalproduktspezifisches Landmanagement in Stadt-Land-Partnerschaften am Beispiel der Metropolregion Nürnberg
• Räumliches Monitoring zum Siemens-Campus in Erlangen (mit Prof. Glasze; i.A. Siemens AG, seit 2014)
• INTERREG AlpBioEco (2018/19)
• INTERREG Luigi (2021/22)

 

• European Planning Studies, Member of the Board
• ESPON – European Observation Network for Territorial Development and Cohesion
• Akademie für Raumforschung und Landesplanung
  (LAG Bayern; Hochschulbotschafter)
• DVAG-Regionalforum Erlangen-Nürnberg
• Institut für Entwicklungsforschung im Ländlichen Raum Ober- und Mittelfrankens
• Netzwerk Humangeographie Bamberg – Bayreuth – Erlangen