Upcoming Events

IAOS-SCORUS Conference in Kiev, 12-14 September 2012
on “Getting our message across – Strategies and Best Practices to Ensure the Use of Statistics in Decision Making”
including 5 SCORUS sessions on
-facilitating cooperation among regional statisticians through a common language
-City networks for a cooperative development, communication and application of statistical information
-Cooperation across the hierarchical levels of official statistics – the example of statistics on the urban economy
-Housing statistics on regions and urban areas from the perspective of competitiveness, social cohesion and sustainability
-Location-based information for decision support: emerging systems and strategies

World Statistics Congress in Hong Kong, 25-30 August 2013

With 3 SCORUS sessions
SCORUS Europe Group Conference in 2012 / 2013 (to be announced)
Chaired by Petra Kuncova (ČR), Asta Manninen (Fi), Jolanta Minkevica (Lv)

Contacts

Petra Kuncova (Chair), e-mail:
Stephen Leung (Vice chair), e-mail:
Wendy Thomas (Secretary), e-mail:
Teodora Brandmüller (Treasurer), e-mail:
SCORUS Europe Group:
Petra Kuncova, e-mail:
Asta Manninen, e-mail:
Jolanta Minkevica, e-mail:
SCORUS website(to be revised shortly):
/ The International Network
for Urban and Regional Statistics
Standing Committee on Regional and Urban Statistics
of the International Association for Official Statistics (IAOS)
SCORUS, a platform to facilitate the development of urban and regional statistics and research, is an organisation under the umbrella of the International Association for Official Statistics – IAOS – within the International Statistical Institute -ISI.
SCORUS’s mission is to stimulate and organise a worldwide dialogue on urban and regional research and statistics and to promote in depth statistical analyses with the aim to contribute to progress in this field and to improve the understanding of urban and regional phenomena as well as the comparability of concepts and results. SCORUS aims to enhance the knowledge created for urban and regional policy.

SCORUS actions

It is the core objective of the SCORUS network to strengthen the harmonisation of concepts, methodology and output of regional and urban analyses, research and statistics.
In order to provide a platform for worldwide dialogue and to exchange on a large scale the knowledge on indicators, methods and results of regional and urban statistics, SCORUS
  • organises conferences(the biannual conference, regional conferences and thematic conferences), on regional and urban research and statistics as well as sessions at ISI and IAOS conferences
  • provides an internet platform for the continuous exchange of knowledge and of ideas and for developing consensus positions on relevant issues,
  • actively tries to enlarge the participation of users (researchers, policy makers, consultants) and producers (at municipal, regional, national and international level) of regional and urban statistics in this worldwide exchange of experience and ideas,
  • promotes the exchange and co-operation on topics of common interest within Regional SCORUS groups.
This way, SCORUS has established a link between official statistics and researchers in urban and regional statistics. The SCORUS network is continually enlarging its virtual community as a discussion board for the exchange of information, for harmonisation of standards and for cooperation in Europe and worldwide. /

Recent activities

General SCORUS conferences in recent years were held in
  • Minneapolis, USA (2004) on “Understanding Change”
  • Wroclaw, Poland (2006)on“Globalisation impact on regional and urban statistics”,
Shanghai, China (2008) – together with IAOS - mainly on the subjective well-being of citizens and the application of urban and regional statistics in Asian cities.
  • Riga, Latvia (2010) on “Creating a knowledge base for successful cities and regions, along the statistical value chain”
  • Santiago, Chile (2010) – together with IAOS - on “environmental aspects of regional and urban research and statistics”
SCORUS Europe Groupconferences were held recently in
  • Amsterdam, Netherlands (2005) on “Competing and caring: the challenge for European cities”
  • Darmstadt, Germany (2007) on “The Strength of cities and regions”
SCORUS also contributes its own sessions to all World Statistics Congresses - WCS, the latest held in Dublin (2011).
SCORUS Satellite conferences to the WSCs were held in
  • Potsdam, Germany (2003) on “Standards for urban and regional indicators”
  • Limavady, Northern Ireland (2011) on “The future of regional & urban statistics and research”
Plans for the immediate future
  • Redesign the SCORUS website to intensify the exchange of information among the SCORUS partners
  • List active partners in the SCORUS network for bilateral contacts
  • Prepare conferences in Kiev, Hong Kong and the Europe Group meeting