The Workshop PRIN 2022 "Mapping local economic activity using night-time light data" will be held on 30 September - 1 October 2025 in the Seminar Room of the Department of Economics and Management at the University of Padua (via del Santo 33, Padua).

Programme Committee
Giulio Cainelli, Roberto Ganau, Claudio Lupi, Nadiia Matsiuk, Luca Romagnoli, Giovanni Savio

Local Organising Committee
Giulio Cainelli, Roberto Ganau

Venue and Dates
Scientific events:
• Sala Seminari, Via del Santo 33, on Tuesday 30 September, 14:30–18:15
• Sala Seminari, Via del Santo 33, on Wednesday 1 October, 09:00–12:30
Coffee breaks and light lunch in Common Room, Via del Santo 33

Full Programme

Day 1 - Tuesday, 30 September 2025

14:30-14:45: Welcome institutional address by Michele Fabrizi, Vice-Dean of the Department

14:45-15:45: Keynote Lecture
Chair: Roberto Ganau (University of Padua)

Michael Storper (UCLA, LSE) "Europe’s geography problem: reconciling growth with equity"

15:45-16:15: Coffee break

16:15-18:30: Session 1 - Microgeographic and night-light data in economics
Chair: Luca Romagnoli (University of Molise)

Angela Stefania Bergantino (University of Bari) "Shedding “light” on territorial disparities: evidence and policy implications"

Andrea Caragliu (Polytechnic University of Milan) "Coagglomeration and consumption amenities"

Diego Giuliani (University of Trento) "Accounting for neighbouring effects in measures of industrial coagglomeration"

Alberto Tidu (University of Cagliari) "The evolution of agglomeration patterns in Italian manufacturing and services"

19:45: Social dinner at Dante alle Piazze

Day 2 - Wednesday, 1 October 2025

9:00-10:00: Keynote Lecture
Chair: Giulio Cainelli

Christopher Elvidge (Colorado School of Mines) "VIIRS low-light imaging – Gems from the night"

10:00-11:00: Session 2 – TBC– Geo-spatial data I
Chair: TBD

Giovanni Savio (ISTAT) "Mapping Italian GDP at sub-national level with VIIRS night lights and panel data models"

Claudio Lupi (University of Molise) "Disaggregating income data at sub-municipal level using satellite imagery"

11:00-11:30: Coffee break

11:30–12:30: Session 3 – Geo-spatial data II
Chair: Roberto Ganau

Roberto Pierdicca (Marche Polytechnic University) "GeoAI, spatial intelligence and geospatial reasoning: new paradigms for the interpretation of geodata"

Nadiia Matsiuk (University of Padova) "Trust and local economic conditions"

12:30-14:00: Light Lunch

The workshop was funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research within the framework of the PRIN project call 2022 (DM 104 of 02.02.2022) “Mapping local economic activity using night-time light data: Statistical indicators and long-term determinants of economic geography in Italy at municipality and sub-municipality level”, project code 2022Z4L3HK, CUP C53D23004920006.