• Open to researchers born after December 31, 1984
• Eligible degrees: BA, MA, or PhD
• Unrestricted nationality and host country

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• The Centro Einaudi with the support of Fondazione CRT launches the Giorgio Rota Best Paper Award. Young researchers are invited to submit papers on the subject: Rural economies, evolutionary dynamics and new paradigms.
• The Award is open to researchers born after December 31st, 1984 (BA, MA or PhD).
• The authors of the three best papers will be awarded a prize of 1.500 Euros (gross) per paper and they will be invited to present their work at the Giorgio Rota Conference.
• Topics of interest thus include, but are not limited to:.
• The local and global restructuring of the rural economy.
• The economy of the mountain areas.
• Rural capitalism and finance.
• The mountain-rural-urban divide.
• Rural-urban relationships and flows.
• Strengths and weaknesses of the rural firm.
• Environmental policies and the payments for ecosystemic services.
• Self-help and self-determination in the rural communities.
• The political representation of the rural areas.
• Protection and development of rural villages.