AESOP newsletter - August 2025

We are delighted to inform you that the AESOP Excellence in Education Board has awarded the following planning programmes with the AESOP Certificate of Quality for the period 2025–2031. This prestigious recognition celebrates educational excellence, innovation, and academic rigour in planning education across Europe.

🏅 The following programmes have been granted the Certificate of Quality:

• BSc Spatial...

18–21 March 2026 | Prague, Czech Republic
Organised by the Faculty of Architecture, Czech Technical University in Prague (CTU FA), in collaboration with the Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences.

ABOUT THE CONFERENCE

The AESOP Young Academics (YA) PhD Conference is an annual, free-of-charge...

AESOP is pleased to announce that the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) has been selected to host the AESOP Heads of Schools Meeting 2026. The selection was formally approved during the AESOP Council of Representatives meeting held on 7 July 2025.

The event will take place at NMBU's Ås Campus, located 30 km south of Oslo, in a vibrant academic environment that brings together research and education...

The 6th World Planning Schools Congress will take place 29.6.-3.7.2026 in Helsinki/Espoo (Finland)!

See more information on the website: www.wpsc2026.org or on LinkedIn !

CALL FOR SPECIAL SESSIONS [EXTENDED]

Special sessions are intended to cover timely and relevant subjects that are not covered by the 15 tracks. See below an initial list of keywords for each track.

Special sessions consist of 4-8 oral presentations....

Registration is now open until 15 August.

Please register at the following link:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfNWPO24gMGyikIk3Kpnw0mGw2ukkHVAfBbYuLGES1KOFMBRw/viewform?usp=sharing&ouid=101925520454545353151

Call for papers closed on 15 July.

A final program of the conference will be available after the closing of registrations.

Best regards

the Organizers and Scientific Committee

‘Contested urban policy: breeding concrete...

First European Lecture Series on Small Towns will start in autumn/winter 2025. This lecture series explores current research and practices relating to the development of small and medium-sized towns in selected European countries. It discusses ongoing spatial dynamics, ranging from small neighbourhoods and inner cities to regional and national perspectives. These dynamics are closely linked to political debates and planning strategies in the relevant countries, as well as to...

The hybrid event is a two-part academic lecture series hosted in Bratislava, organized within the framework of the EU-funded project “Project Management for EU Urban Transformation in the Context of Climate Change and Energy Transition” (PM4U), and supported by AESOP and the TG Transboundary Planning and Governance. It focuses on Ukraine’s path toward European integration, offering...

INVITATION
Pre-Conference Seminar (ONLINE)

We are looking forward to the upcoming 23rd meeting of our thematic group on Planning and Complexity in Gothenburg (Sweden) on 27 and 28 November 2025. To keep us connected and inspired, we have organised an online pre-conference seminar. Open to all members of the thematic group and everyone who feels connected to the group and/or the topic. You can download the invitation as PDF file here.

Adaptive governance:...

An editorial team in AESOP Sustainable Food Planning is launching a call for chapters for the edited volume “The Changemaking of Urban Food Systems: a Methodological Lens”

This volume seeks to bring together contributions from the diverse field of urban food planning and urban food systems, with a critical focus on the role of methodologies as tools to reveal, analyze, or shape food system dynamics. Chapters’ contributions will...

Event of the AESOP Thematic Group ‘Public Spaces and Urban Cultures’

15/16 September 2025

Newcastle University/Newcastle Contemporary Art, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

Partner organisations:

Newcastle University, School of Architecture, Building and Planning, Newcastle upon Tyne

(United Kingdom), Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne (United Kingdom), Vrije

University Brussels, The Brussels Centre for Urban Studies...

 Curator of the Loeb Fellowship

Harvard Graduate School of Design

Full-time 001179SR 

Nominations may be submitted online here.

Company Description 

Why join the Harvard Graduate School of Design? 

The Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD) educates leaders in design, research, and scholarship to make a resilient, just, and beautiful world. The GSD offers an unparalleled setting for interaction...

The Sao Paulo State University (UNESP), Sorocaba Technology and Science Institute, makes public the applications for one (1) Postdoctoral scholarship in the Geoprocessing and Environmental Mathematical Modeling research line, granted by FAPESP in process 2024/01128-5, referring to the Science Center for the Development of Social Housing in the State of São Paulo (CCD HIS SP), regarding the partnership between the Sorocaba Institute of Science and Technology (ICTS), the State...