Minutes for the PRSCO Council Meeting 2022
Online PRSCO Council Meeting
Date and Time: Thursday, July 28, 2022, GMT 7:00-9:40 (16:00-18:40 in Japan)
Meeting Place: Zoom
Chair: Hidehiko Kanegaea) Apologies received, roll-call, and confirmation of Section representatives (Hidehiko)Present:Hidehiko Kanegae (PRSCO President, JSRSAI), In Kwon Park (PRSCO Vice president, KRSA),
Andrea Antonio Caragliu (RSAI Executive Director), Kimlong Chheng (Cambodia), Yogi
Vidyattama (ANZRSAI), Sumana Bandyopadhyay (Indian RSA), Lily Kiminami (JSRSAI), BrianH.S. Kim (KRSA), Sutee Anantsuksomsri (Thailand), Nij Tontisirin (Thailand), Jaewon Lim(WRSA), B.P. Resosudarmo (past RSAI President, IRSA), Rosella Nicolini (PiRS Editor), TomásLopes Cavalheiro Ponce Dentinho (RSPP Editor), Hiroyuki Shibusawa (past PRSCO ExecutiveSecretary, JSRSAI) Soushi Suzuki (PRSCO Executive Secretary, JSRSAI)
Apologies received:
Fabian Vilema (RECIR), Serena Erendira Serrano Oswald (AMECIDER), Dusan Paredes A.
(SOCHER), David A. Plane (WRSA), Yoshiro Higano (APJRS Editor), Eduardo Amaral Haddad(RSAI President)b) Minutes of the PRSCO Council Meeting (Online) 2nd August 2021 (Hidehiko)Hidehiko’s motion to approve the minutes of the previous meeting held online was accepted.
c) Report on the 27th Pacific Conference of the RSAI in 2022 (Hidehiko)Hidehiko reported that the 27th Pacific Conference of the RSAI is to be held online August 1-4, 2022,
based on Annex (c).
d) Discussion and Report on the 18th PRSCO Summer Institute in 2023
Kimlong Chheng (Asian Vision Institute) proposed on the Summer Institute 2023 based on the Annex.
It will be held in Siem Reap, Cambodia, 15-17 June 2023. It was approved. Soushi explained a planthat a part of froze budget of Nurturing talent programme for PRSCO will be prioritized allocating forthis summer institute in order to ensure supporting for LOC.
e) Report on the 28th Pacific Conference of the RSAI in 2024 (KRSA, Daegu City, South Korea)
In Kwon Park (PRSCO Vice president, KRSA) proposed on the Pacific Conference of the RSAI in2024 based on the Annex (e). It will be held in Daegu City, South Korea. It was approved. The details
will be reported in the next council meeting.
f) Discussion on venues of PRSCO Conference and Summer Institute in 2025-2028 (Hidehiko)Hidehiko confirmed the schedule for the conferences and the institutes for 2025–2028.
Jaewon proposed hosting the Pacific Conference in 2028, Yogi proposed hosting the PacificConference in 2026 based on Annex (f-ANZRSAI) and Sumana proposed hosting on the Summer
Institute based on Annex (f- India RSA). Based on the Discussion, tentative plan presented asfollowing;1

2025: 19th Summer Institute
India RSA and Sri Lanka (New Delhi or Kolkata), tentative
2026: 29th PRSCOANZRSAI (Canberra), tentative
2027: 20th Summer Institute
The Philippines, tentative
2028: 30th PRSCOWRSA, tentative
More discussion will be held at the next council meeting in Cambodia.
g) PRSCO Awards (Dusan, Hidehiko)-PRSCO Award for Best Paper by a Young Regional Scientist (Hidehiko)Dusan could not attend the meeting. Hidehiko reported that the winner of the PRSCO award for Best
Paper by a Young Regional Scientist is Mauricio Oyarzo, Universidad de Concepción. The title of thepaper is “Shocks derived from mining windfalls and horizontal transfers: Exploring the permanentincome hypothesis in Chilean municipalities from a spatial competition approach”. It was approved.
-Higano Award for Outstanding Service to PRSCO (Hidehiko)Awardee 2021 N/A Committee chairs will be appointed in this year. Hidehiko announced that lookforward to receiving nomination by sending recommendation letter for 2022. Email attachment to:
soushi-s@lst.hokkai-s-u.ac.jph) Confirmation of the PRSCO representative for the RSAI council (Hidehiko)Hidehiko confirmed the PRSCO representative for the RSAI council as;
Hidehiko Kanegae (2022–2023), Brian Kim (2019–2021, 2022–2024), Lily Kiminami (2018–2020,2021–2023).
i) Report on activities of the RSAI (Andrea)
Andrea reported on the RSAI activities based on Annex (i).
j) Editor’s report: Papers in Regional Science (Rosella Nicolini)
Rosella reported on the situation of Papers in Regional Science based on Annex (j).
k) Editor’s report: Regional Science Policy & Practice (Tomáz)
Tomáz reported on the situation of Regional Science Policy & Practice based on Annex (k).
l) Discussion on Kyrghistan Workshop Proposal (Tomáz)
Tomáz proposed Kyrghistan Workshop based on Annex (l). Tomáz asked for PRSCO support fromthe budget of Nurturing Talent programme - PRSCO share. But his proposal was not adopted at thismeeting.
PRSCO council meeting confirmed that the call for applications for the Young Scientist Development
Programs of other PRSCO member countries will be prioritized. It was decided to wait for the resultsof the PRSCO member countries' calls and applications before partitioning all applications for a faircross-comparison in the future. PRSCO will announce the Nurturing talent programme at PRSCO
assembly session & announcement in PRSCO 2022 Kyoto on 3rd AUG, and potential proposers fromcountries in PRSCO may exist soon, so that PRSCO council meeting couldn't formally be agreed any
approval of the proposal at this timing. It is clearly confirmed that remaining carrying over theNurturing Talent Programme budget will be call for prior member countries of PRSCO in a certain
term of this summer except for the next year summer institute in Cambodia. PRSCO councilors wereagreed with that it should be continuously discussed by persons involved.

2m) Editor’s report: Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science (Yoshiro, Soushi)
Yoshiro could not attend the meeting. Soushi reported on the situation of Asia-Pacific Journal ofRegional Science based on Annex (m).
n) Any further business
Next PRSCO Council meeting, Phnom Penh, Cambodia (tentative)
Minutes taken by Soushi Suzuki and confirmed by Hidehiko Kanegae3