On 11 and 12 May 2023, twelve researchers from the Czech Republic, Poland and Germany met in Braunschweig to launch the international research project on the social and political consequences of spatial inequalities in Central Eastern Europe.
Are spatial inequalities within nation states a risk to social cohesion? Do people in disadvantaged regions feel "left out" of the economic boom and neglected by national governments? Do people react with discontent and protest?
These questions were the focus of the kick-off event of the research project "Social and Political Consequences of Spatial Inequalities", which took place on 11 and 12 May 2023 at the Thünen Institute in Braunschweig (Germany). In the project, the Thünen Institute for Living Conditions in Rural Areas (https://www.thuenen.de/de/fachinstitute/laendliche-raeume/lebensverhaeltnisse-in-laendlichen-raeumen) cooperates with the Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences (https://www.soc.cas.cz/en) and the Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning of the Polish Academy of Sciences (https://www.igipz.pan.pl/home_en.html).
The international research project is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and its sister institutions GACR (Czech Republic) and NCN (Poland) as part of the Weave Lead Agency Initiative.
