AESOP newsletter - December 2023

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS -  36th AESOP Annual Congress 2024 Paris, July 8-12 2024
GAME CHANGER? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions

Call for abstracts EXTENDED until 31 January 2024!

The Paris Congress will examine a key question at the heart of the multiple ongoing transitions: what exactly constitutes a game changer?
For over a century, European urban planning has depended heavily on publicly-driven land urbanization,...

AHEAD OF THE GAME.
REVERSIBILITY, FRUGALITY AND CARE IN THE CONTEXT OF URBAN TRANSITIONS

GRENOBLE, JULY 3-6 2024

Call for applications EXTENDED until 31 January 2024!

The 2024 AESOP PhD Workshop is an event linked to the AESOP Annual Congress organized by SciencesPo Institute in Paris, in July 2024. Titled “Game changer? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions”, the congress will critically assess the impacts of the...

Planning education for recovery and resilience

Iuav - University of Venice

The conditions that led to the birth of the modern city over the course of the 20th Century have changed radically. Today, multiple and dramatic emergencies (economic and financial, social, environmental and climatic, health, and geopolitical) call for critical reflection on the nature and goals of urban planning. After years of progressive reduction of public resources, European...

The Conference Officer (CO) is a Member of the Executive Committee of AESOP with responsibility to support the launch of major events in which AESOP is directly involved (e.g. the Annual Congress, the PhD Workshop, the Heads of School Meeting); oversee the progress of the LOC in the above events; liaise with the ExCo and LOC for timely decisions and report on the preparation of major events to ExCo and CoRep.

Application deadline: 17 February 2024...

AIM OF THE PRIZE

Teaching and capacity development in the field of spatial planning is one of the main activities of AESOP Member Schools. Thus, in 2002, AESOP introduced a prize (https://aesop-planning.eu/activities/awards/excellence-in-teaching-award ) to recognize and encourage Excellence in Teaching.

Through this award, AESOP celebrates and disseminates innovative practices in teaching in its Member Schools. The broad aim of the Prize is to...

AESOP is looking for candidates willing to organise the 20th AESOP Lecture Series in 2024. 

The application has to be from an Academic on behalf of an AESOP member institution.

The Lecture Series was initiated in 2012 as part of the AESOP’s Silver Jubilee Year celebrations. Since then, a series of Lectures have been regularly organised with prominent ‘urban thinkers’, both academics and practitioners. The idea has been to attract not only...

Recently, there have been multiple reports of phishing and fraud attempts targeting our members via email and this time via phone calls.  

They are using the identity of GPEAN members and the AESOP president. 

Here are some key points to be aware of: 

1. Email Source Verification: Always verify the sender's email address. Legitimate communications from AESOP will always come from AESOP's official email account (@aesop-planning.eu...

The Call for Project deadline has been extended: 15 January 2024. Visit the website for all the information about topics, submission, publications and presentation: https://www.ectpceu-inubiennalenaples.com

EURA 2025 CONFERENCE

Call for expression of interest to host the event in 2025

The European Urban Research Association President and Governing Board invite expressions of interest from Universities, Research Centres and Research Institutes who would be interested in organising and hosting the EURA annual conference in 2025

EURA ANNUAL CONFERENCE

EURA is a network of urban scholars facilitating cross-disciplinary research and...

We are happy to announce the forthcoming XI AESOP Sustainable Food Planning Conference “Building Movement, Achieving Transformation”. The conference will be held in Brussels and Ghent (Belgium), from the 19th to 22th of June 2024.

The XI AESOP Sustainable Food Planning Conference asks how sustainable food planning can become more embedded into socially innovative and transformative movements. How can we strategically...

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS -  36th AESOP Annual Congress 2024 Paris, July 8-12 2024
GAME CHANGER? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions

All TG NTP Members and other Colleagues interested in the subject of New Technologies and Planning are cordially invited to submit a contribution to Track 16 NETWORKS AND DATA: Planning and socio-technical systems, digital methods and technologies

Please visit the AESOP 2024 PARIS CONGRESS website...

Towards the end of 2023, we have news to share to kick-start all of us into 2024.

We have noticed many publications in the past year that can boost all of our collective thinking even more. Use this form https://forms.gle/gJYhTfN5DuaBMbpM9 to share your own ones on planning and complexity, or other recommendations. The form also includes our collection of key concepts and terms from Manchester in 2023, and all further ideas are welcome.

We invite you to join...

Dear all,

Last week we had a small but productive TG meeting, reflecting on 2023 and thinking about activities for 2024. Our main activity is of course the AESOP Annual Congress in Paris. Our TG is responsible for TRACK 4 BORDERS “Transboundary planning for sustainability and cohesion”. Please note that the deadline for abstract submission is already on January 8th. Further information about the congress can be found here: https://aesop-planning.eu/paris

In...

-   CALL FOR PAPERS N°16   - 

The productive city in the age of ecological transition: issues and debates for urban planning and development

This issue of RIURBA is part of the scientific debate on productive activities. It echoes the political and practical concerns that turn them into an object of public policy, questioning the conditions of their location, territorial and urban integration, functioning, their effects...

Aalto University is a community of bold thinkers where science and art meet technology and business. We are committed to identifying and solving grand societal challenges and building an innovative future. Aalto University has six schools with 12 000 students and nearly 400 professors. Our campuses are in Espoo, Finland.

The School of Engineering is an international unit with nearly 70 talented professors and 3400 full-time students. Currently, the Department of Built...

C-NEWTRAL Doctoral Network is funded by the prestigious Horizon Europe Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) and led by University College Dublin (Assist. Prof. Aura Istrate). There are 12 vacancies for highly ambitious Doctoral Candidates (DC) to conduct research on how to advance towards achieving climate-neutral cities from different dimensions (Urban Nature, Urban Mobility, Built Form, Energy, Circularity) through citizen engagement and decision-making support.

There...

The School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy is seeking expressions of interest from prospective PhD students to fill one fully funded PhD studentships in the Planning subject area. A PhD will be funded in the following two broad thematic research areas:

• Urban design, mobility and spatial justice

About the School

The School of Architecture, Planning...

Faculty of Technology, Art and Design

University Assistant (Prae-Doc)
30 hours/week | limited to 4 years

PhD position on digital participation tools for sustainable university campus transformation at RWTH Aachen University, Chair of Urban Design and European Urbanism.

RWTH Aachen University Chair of Urban Design and European Urbanism is looking for prospective PhD students interested in an interdisciplinary doctoral position bridging urban design and spatial planning with social studies and computer science. You will be part of the 48-month project Sustainable Campus...

Research Programme

“WEB SERVICES FOR FLOOD EARLY WARNING IN THE SAHEL (ACRONYM SLAPIS)”

Content and finality of the research program

The Research Program concerns the organization of the database and innovative web service of the three years project "Local Early Flood Warning System in the Sahel" led by DIST and funded by the AICS. The database contains hourly flow and water level data as measured by hydrometers placed...