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We at ISOCARP, the International Society of City and Regional Planners, want to share with you what we did and what has happened in the last months. In this newsletter, you will find information about the following topics:
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More than ever before, we now realise that making healthy cities is paramount. Making cities healthier places for living and working should be on the top of the agenda of every government, mayor, city planner and developer. Urban and regional planners are the doctors and surgeons of cities. They know how our patients should change their lifestyles and, if necessary, where and how to operate to improve their well-being. We as urban and regional planners should stand up and feel the profound responsibility for making and designing better and more healthier cities and public places.
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At the World Urban Forum (WUF10) in Abu Dhabi we discussed combined efforts to make cities and regions more healthy, resilient, liveable and meaningful by connecting culture and innovation. Nevertheless, at WUF10, we missed the exchange with our respected colleagues and friends from Asia and China who cancelled their participation due to the global Coronavirus outbreak. The City of Wuhan, where the COVID-19 pandemic started, made considerable efforts to make the city a more resilient, greener, and healthier place to live by pedestrianizing and upgrading the West Lake and Zhongshan Avenue. As ISOCARP was part of the research and assessment teams of these highly successful projects, we are glad to see that the daily life in China is slowly getting to normal situation.
On the other side, Europe quickly became an epicentre of the COVID-19 pandemic development. We deeply empathise with our colleagues from Spain, France, Germany, Switzerland, and, above all, Italy. It is strange to see the usually crowded streets, squares and parks in beautiful Rome and Lombardia now completely empty. The virus outbreak in North Italy also affected the activities of ISOCARP. The Merano YPP workshop, planned for the beginning of March, was cancelled one week before the start and postponed earliest to September or October. With hindsight, the Merano Municipality and ISOCARP made a wise and timely decision not to risk the health and well-being of the Young Planning Professionals and their tutors.
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In Memoriam
With sadness, gratitude and kind memories, we remember Prof. em. Estefanía Chávez Barragán (89) from Mexico, as one of the initiators of the Young Planning Professionals Programme. We can rightly say that she was the caring grandmother of hun -
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dreds of ISOCARP Young Planning Professionals who participated in numerous workshops and events in the past decades. Supported by her relatives, Estefanía participated in many of our recent congresses, always eager and passioned to engage in discussions about the planning profession she loved so much.
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ISOCARP’s future growth
Although we are currently slowing down our activities, particularly those demanding direct personal contact, we are aware that ISOCARP can only grow through constant transformation – better organisation, innovative initiatives, and new members. Our Head Office in the Hague as a vivid body in support of ISOCARP and ISOCARP Institute also goes through a transition period. Our esteemed colleagues – David Struik, Office Manager and Balint Horvath, in charge of Communication and Member Relations – will leave us soon. On the other side, in the past eight months, we welcomed 170 new individual and institutional members from 44 countries. Hence, we cordially invite you to take part in a number of ISOCARP activities and bodies. The official call for ISOCARP Board members (with seven open positions including President-Elect) will be released soon, while the call for candidates for the Scientific Committee invites members to help position ISOCARP in the highly challenged field of city and regional planning today. To be active part of the ISOCARP network, please join or make sure you timely renew your membership.
Martin Dubbeling, President
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56th ISOCARP World Planning Congress
'Post-Oil City: Planning for an Urban Green Deal'
Doha, Qatar, November 8-12, 2020
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Based on the ongoing communication with our partner and hosting organisation, the Qatari Ministry of Municipality and Environment (MME), at this moment we agree to proceed with 56th ISOCARP World Planning Congress as scheduled. While the circumstances are changing every day due to the Coronavirus, there are currently no plans to cancel or postpone the Congress format unless the global situation should require so. We remain vigilant and mindful of our responsibilities, working actively with our local partner to closely monitor the situation and ensure that appropriate precautionary measures are planned to safeguard the health of our participants.
We will publish updates on a regular basis and provide more information about logistical matters via the congress website and isocarp.org. For updates on the current guidelines and measures in Qatar, you may visit the website of the Ministry of Public Health.
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Urban Green Deals – put forward by municipalities as place-specific plans – create a reservoir of experiences and ideas to ensure the well-being of citizens while profoundly changing the way cities operate within planetary boundaries. The focus of the congress is to discuss how Urban Green Deals are shaped; what the key issues are in various contexts; how they can be planned and implemented, and how they can contribute to the Global Agenda.
The opening ceremony on November 8 coincides with the annual World Town Planning Day and a joint event with Global Planners Network is currently under consideration. The second congress day concurs with the opening of COP26 Climate Conference, the highly anticipated world stage to finally curb the global warming – a historic moment that should be well used by the Doha Congress and its Declaration. Capitalising on positive experiences from our Congress in Bodø two years ago, the Doha Congress will also apply a multi-stage approach spread around the downtown area of Doha, accessible by new metro-lines and inviting for walking, cycling and even running activities during the Doha Congress. All good reasons to register and submit your paper abstract!
Piotr Lorens, General Rapporteur, and Hangwelani (Hope) Magidimisha, General Co-Rapporteur, together with the congress team welcome your contribution s under the following tracks:
TRACK 1: Understanding Urban Metabolism
TRACK 2: Ensuring the Economic Diversity and Resilience
TRACK 3: Planning for Urban Connectivity
TRACK 4: Safeguarding the Urban Resilience
TRACK 5: Focusing on Heritage and Smart Culture
TRACK 6: Creating Healthy and Inclusive Urban Environment
TRACK 7: Shaping Liveable Places
Special Track: The Future of Hot CitiesKEY DATES:
April 24, 2020: Deadline for abstract submission.
July 31, 2020: Deadline for contribution (paper/presentation/case study) submission as well as for the submission of session proposals.
Please find more information on our new congress website.
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Call for Bids for 2021+ ISOCARP World Planning Congress
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ISOCARP is encouraging hosts to bid for the 2021 congress and beyond. ISOCARP has successfully held congresses in many places around the world and now is seeking the 2021 location. Please submit your proposal for our consideration.
The ISOCARP World Planning Congress is an exciting opportunity not only to bring international delegates to the host city and discuss the most current topics of planning. It is also an opportunity to showcase the country and leave a legacy in terms of content and networking. The congress is widely recognised by urban professionals worldwide and the event has helped many host cities and organisations to realise their goals.
For more information on congress policies and support, please contact Neeanne Balamiento, ISOCARP Congress Director at balamiento@isocarp.org, or visit our website. Please submit your proposal to host the 2021 congress before June 30, 2020. For further years we are open to receive proposals on a rolling basis. |
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Following the well-established tradition of recognising the most prominent achievements in the broad field of spatial planning, in 2020 ISOCARP will bestow the three category awards:
- Awards for Excellence, open to a wide range of professionals and institutions operating in the domain of urban and regional planning; participants are invited to submit different tools used in planners’ daily practice: normative plans, strategic plans, urban projects, programmes, policies, research works, software, etc.
- Gerd Albers Awards, given for best individual publication: book, book chapter, journal article, and project report; only for ISOCARP members.
- Student Awards, addressing a student or student-group at different levels (undergraduate-bachelor, graduate-master) with outstanding results in urban and regional planning or related field.
The submission deadline is June 30, 2020. The winning entries will be promoted not only through the ISOCARP website and social media, but also in the special publications currently under preparation. Don’t miss the opportunity to make your work rewarded by some of the renowned ISOCARP awards! Additional information is available from ISOCARP Director for Awards Ana Peric, peric@isocarp.org and can be also found at the website. |
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ThinkNature Project concluded
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After three succesful years the ThinkNature project has been concluded. The objective of the ThinkNature project was the development of a platform that supports the understanding and the promotion of Nature-Based Solutions (NBS). Nature-based solutions are about building with nature instead of building in nature. The goal is to tackle urban problems like air pollution or urban heat islands by using natural ecosystems.
ISOCARP participated in the ThinkNature project as work package leader for communication and dissemination. The work included development of the visual identity including website and motion graphics; co-organization of three forums in A Coruna, Paris and Bucharest; multiple articles, a handbook and a NBS game. The project is now concluded but the platform will stay online.
The research will be continued by new EU H2020-funded projects. ISOCARP will stay involved in multiple ways and we will keep you updated on activities open for ISOCARP members.
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+CityxChange Webinar on the Citizen Participation Playbook
Online, May 27, 2020
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As part of our project +CityxChange, the Citizen Participation Playbook has been developed. It helps local authorities to enable local communities on how they could become a Positive Energy Block and lead the transformation towards Positive Energy Districts and Cities. Meaningful citizen engagement is a challenge in any city-making process led by public institutions. The resulting Playbook is not a mere catalog of physical and online participatory tools, but a detailed roadmap of four distinctive citizen participatory processes to co-design Positive Energy Blocks and Districts including phases, steps, stakeholders, outcomes together with a set of seven physical tools and seven online tools. The playbook is available online and will be presented by the lead authors Colaborativa.eu during a webinar on 27 May, 2020. Register here. |
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ISOCARP Communications 2.0
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Through many initiatives raised by Secretary-General Frank D’hondt and with support of other Board members as well as the Head Office, ISOCARP strives to sharpen its presence in a real-world, but also in a digital realm. We are still miles away from a perfect Cyber Agora. But heralding the motto that perfect is the enemy of good, we should aim for good and better. Our website Planetary is good, but it can be better and we are working on it. Some will argue that we need an entirely new platform to design our Cyber Agora, but costs might outweigh the benefits. While further improving what we have, suggestions on how to enhance communication between ISOCARP Board and members, as well as among the members themselves, are most welcome as it is a vital reason to become and remain a member! Read more. |
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Community of Practice: Urban Health: Planning Resilient Cities for and with People
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What is urban health, how can urban planning and health-related disciplines work together more closely, and what is ISOCARP’s take on this? To answer this question and to take on a leading role in the debate, ISOCARP creates a vibrant Community of Practice. This CoP will enable to gather, produce and improve knowledge on the topic amongst its members; define and promote urban planners’ unique role to shape healthy/caring cities and healthy behaviors; explore new definitions and strategies; share ideas and identify best practices; and, establish partnerships to bring us closer to the goal of healthy/caring cities and citizens.
Initiated by ISOCARP members Jens Aerts and Elisabeth Belpaire, the Urban Health CoP’s first product will be an ISOCARP Think Piece on Healthy Cities, which we can share with external partners. If you have a particular experience or deep interest in this topic, please send a message to urbanhealth@isocarp.org before March 31. Read more. |
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Community of Practice: Urban Mobility
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WUF10 provided a fertile ground to plant the second ISOCARP Community of Practice (CoP) on Urban Mobility initiated by a (new) ISOCARP member Joachim Bergerhoff and ISOCARP Board member Sebastien Goethals. A potential cooperation project with GiZ and a WUF10 ISOCARP-booth’s event on ‘affordable low-carbon urban mobility’, co-animated by the Pascal Smet, Secretary of Brussels Capital Region, paved the pathway towards this CoP. The GiZ-promoted tool of Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMPs) will be at the heart of this initiative. For more information, please contact urbanmobility@isocarp.org. |
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Global Planning Aid: Training Barefoot Planners
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Global Planning Aid is ISOCARP’s answer to the ‘Decade of Action’ to make the best of the SDGs by 2030. It aspires to mobilise educated planners to train millions of community workers as ‘barefoot planners’. This is meant as a term to take pride and empowerment to help communities with basic training in participatory and incremental urban and territorial planning and placemaking. Global Planning Aid would mainly provide training to intermediate local/regional NGOs to train grassroots communities. Only this way we can aim for scale.
What are the next steps? The goal is to launch an operational Global Planning Aid at the 11 th WUF in Katowice, Poland. That means that in less than two years from now we need to establish a new foundation with a viable business model as a charitable organisation funded by development and philanthropic partners. It means that we start developing online tools and training packages built up and improved in dialogue with training pilots, by mobilising our collective human resources of trained planners and volunteers. Soon, ISOCARP will call upon members to join a GPA Taskforce. Impatient members are most welcome to express interest by emailing to barefootplanning@isocarp.org. Interested? Read more. |
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IAP - ISOCARP Session @ WEF
Davos, Switzerland, January 23, 2020
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On the occasion of the 50th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, Ana Peric, ISOCARP Executive Board member, spoke at a special session on ‘Towards Smart and Livable Indonesian Cities and the New Capital City‘ organised in collaboration with the Indonesian Association of Urban & Regional Planners (IAP), represented by Bernardus Djonoputro, Senior Advisor at Ernst & Young and Chairman of the Planning Ethics Board of IAP and Hendricus Andy Simarmata, President of IAP. The event was jointly hosted by IAP, Centre of Infrastructure Studies for Indonesia, Ernst & Young Indonesia, and ISOCARP. The full programme is available at Indonesian Pavilion.
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ECTP - ISOCARP Collaboration for European UPATs
Mechelen, Belgium, January 27, 2020
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(ECTP) Joris Scheers and ISOCARP Secretary-General Frank D’hondt signed a Memorandum of Cooperation to jointly prospect and co-deploy European Urban Planning Advisory Teams and to advance the implementation of both the New Urban Agenda and the European Urban Agenda. ISOCARP as a global association of planners and ECTP as European association of national planning associations together aspire to contribute to the territorial component of the Decade of Action and implement the SDGs.
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A work plan includes the following joint milestones:
- Launch of a joint call for European UPATs (EUPATs) on our websites.
- Prospect for a joint EUPAT in/with Brussels Capital Region.
- Prospect for a joint special session on the “European Green Deal” at the upcoming World Planning Congress 2020 in Doha.
- Prospect for EU/Benelux funding for a joint Euro delta workshop or series of workshops around the World Planning Congresses 2020/2021.
- Prospect for a partnership for the World Planning Congress 2021 in case hosted in Europe.
- Mutual endorsement and promotion of events and products.
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ISOCARP in India
New Delhi, Noida, Bhubaneswar, India, February 1-10, 2020
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At the beginning of February, ISOCARP Board member Ali A. Alraouf was representing the Society in several activities and events related to urban and planning issues in India. After delivering lectures at three universities – Noida, Sharda and Xavier University – the opportunities for increasing ISOCARP presence and organising collaborative actions were vividly discussed with the professional planning communities in India, particularly Indian Planners Institute. The Indian hosts expressed great interest in organising joint YPPs, capacity-building workshops, and, ultimately, future World Planning Congress, preferably in 2022 or 2023. Interested in more? |
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ISOCARP @ WUF10
Abu Dhabi, UAE, February 8-13, 2020
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ISOCARP and ISOCARP Institute actively participated at WUF10 by co-hosting two networking events in a booth shared with Norwegian University of Science and Technology ( NTNU), presenting the Society and its projects, while its Board and Head Office members spoke on behalf of the Society in a number of various dialogues, roundtable and side events. A glimpse into the most relevant activities is provided below. Should you be interested in more, have a look at our WUF10 report.
NETWORKING EVENT: Beyond the Metropolis – Inspiring and innovative initiatives to strengthen territorial management of worldwide metropolises and large-city regions (organised by MTPA, ISOCARP and UN-Habitat’s MetroHUB)
February 9, 2020
The main issue of this event was metropolitan governance and the relation between the political and technical bodies to advance metropolitan planning and cooperation. ISOCARP Secretary General Frank D’hondt presented key findings from ISOCARP 2019 World Planning Congress in Jakarta, its Declaration, and ISOCARP Review 15 ‘Planning for Metropolitan Area’. MTPA promoted their new publication and MetroHUB announced the “State of the Metropolis 2020” initiative, followed by case presentations from different metropolises around the world.
BOOTH EVENT: Mobility for carbon-friendly Cities
February 9, 2020
A booth event was staged with four international speakers: Pascal Smet, Secretary of State of the Brussels-Capital Region, responsible for Urbanism and Heritage, European and International Relations, Foreign Trade and Fire-fighting and Emergency Medical Assistance, Eleri Jones, Foresight and Urban Policy, Space Syntax, Annemie Wyckmans, NTNU, and Joachim Bergerhoff, Team Leader SMMR Project, implemented by GFA on behalf of GIZ. The session moderated by ISOCARP President Martin Dubbeling and with the support from ISOCARP Institute, Tjark Gall and Federico Aili, revolved around the importance of urban mobility for resilient urban development and resulted in creating the new Community of Practice on Urban Mobility – an ISOCARP member platform for further engagement with the mobility issues in everyday planning practice. Enjoy the presentation here.
SIDE EVENT: Planners for Climate Action: Nature-Based and Decarbonizing Solutions in Heritage contexts
February 9, 2020
ISOCARP Board member Milena Ivkovic supported the Planners for Climate Action (P4CA) side event on climate and heritage, leading and moderating the conversation on how to better include local communities in both saving their unique cultures and adapting for climate change. The examples from the US, Canada, Australia and France gave a unique view on how important it is to support local communities with climate-adaptive planning and design guidelines and actions. |
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DIALOGUE: Urban Planning and Heritage Preservation
February 11, 2020
During an expert panel introduced by the UN Habitat Executive Director Maimunah Mohd Sharif, ISOCARP Board member Milena Ivkovic presented the project on “Suzhou Grand Canal”. This UPAT, organised in collaboration with Jiangsu Province Urban Planning Institute, interpreted adaptive reuse of the Panmen Bridge heritage area in a rather unconventional way. Briefly, it focuses on innovative interdependencies between climate adaptation, community inclusion and redesign of public space that together form both tangible and intangible living heritage.
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ROUNDTABLE PROFESSIONALS: Professionals Roundtable
Habitat Professionals Forum
February 12, 2020
Habitat Professionals Forum (HPF) is a voluntary association of 24 international organisations of urban professionals hosted by UN-Habitat. After an introduction to the Stakeholder Policy Task Group by Dy Currie, Vice-Chair of SAGE, Laura Petrella (UN-Habitat) described the 4 Domains of Change of UN-Habitat (Strategic Plan). Eleanor Mohammed, President of Canadian Association of Planners, delivered an impressive keynote on the challenges of urbanisation. It was followed by four World Cafes roundtables, moderated by HPF Professionals, who discussed the state-of-the-art in urban solutions and shared the knowledge of the professional organisations with the participants related to the 4 Domains of Change of UN-Habitat. The Roundtable Professionals session was moderated by Didier Vancutsem, Chair of Habitat Professionals Forum and Director of ISOCARP Institute.
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NETWORKING EVENT: Global Planning Aid – A new partnership approach to “Sustainable Cities and Communities”: Empowering poor and marginalised people to make better places (organised by ISOCARP and Planning Aid Scotland)
February 12, 2020
The event was devoted to launching the idea of expanding the planning pool through providing tools and training for barefoot planners in poor and deprived places in the Global North and South. Key conclusions addressed the deficit of planning capacity and the possibility for learning from existing planning support practices. Followed by lively discussion with the audience, the mayoress of Banjul, Gambia, agreed for her city to be a pilot for barefoot planning support.
ISOCARP Secretary-General Frank D’hondt initiated this event in partnership with Planning Aid Scotland (PAS). The event was chaired by ISOCARP President Martin Dubbeling. Several ISOCARP members contributed to the success of the event.
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Lecture 'Sustainable Planning Goals'
Antwerp, Antwerp University, February 26, 2020
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Last month, Secretary General Frank D’hondt was invited by the University of Antwerp in Belgium to give a lecture on his personal and ISOCARP experiences with Sustainable Development Goals applied to urban and territorial planning. The one-hour lecture was well attended by alumni and senior members of the Belgian National Delegation of ISOCARP. The baseline of the lecture was a call for the Decade of Action, entering the final ten years to implement the SDGs approved by all UN member states in 2015. Read more. |
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ISOCARP maintains databases on International planning organisations and events. They are both on the homepage left-hand column. ISOCARP is a member of the Global Planners Network and events are updated in collaboration with them and other ISOCARP partners. If you know of a international planning organisation and/or events to be included, please email isocarp@isocarp.org. |
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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ‘URBAN E-PLANNING’ ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF E-PLANNING RESEARCH
April 6-7, 2020, Lisbon, Portugal
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IMPORTANT NOTE: The conference is rescheduled for September 1-2, 2020. The final decision on new date will be confirmed in June 2020.
The IJEPR Annual Conferences are a multi- and interdisciplinary forum for the exploration, discussion and presentation of innovative theoretical and empirical research on Urban e-Planning. The 5 th International Conference on Urban e-Planning, as the previous four, aims to explore how the current digital revolution in the field of urban planning can serve the common good. Read more. |
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AGE-FRIENDLY CITIES 2020 CONFERENCE AND EXHIBITION
April 7-8, 2020, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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IMPORTANT NOTE: The conference is rescheduled for July 6-7, 2020.
The Age-friendly Cities 2020 Conference and Exhibition (AFC 2020) is an international conference conceptualised to introduce ‘best practices’ and serve as a mechanism to create a deep understanding of what is involved in the creation of vibrant, cohesive and sustainable age-friendly cities, hence providing the foundation for creating a global network of Age-friendly Cities and Communities. Read more.
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25TH REAL CORP 2020: ‘SHAPING URBAN CHANGE: LIVABLE CITY REGIONS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY’
April 15-18, 2020, Aachen, Germany
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IMPORTANT NOTE: The conference is rescheduled for September 15-18, 2020.
REAL CORP 2020 aims to discuss strategies and concepts for quality change management in light of the challenges outlined above, which arise in neighbourhoods, cities, urban regions and metropolitan areas. This also raises the question of who the actual actors of current urban, regional and metropolitan regional development are and what role planners can play in the corresponding scenarios. Read more.
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2020 RSA ANNUAL CONFERENCE: TRANSFORMATIONS: RELATIONAL SPACES, BEYOND URBAN AND RURAL
June 17-20, 2020, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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IMPORTANT NOTE: This conference has been postponed to 2022, please read the full statement here: http://bit.ly/refundljb
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URBANISM NEXT EUROPE CONFERENCE
June 25-26, 2020, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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A lot of research and media attention has focused on the technical aspects of new mobility and the growth of e-commerce. But the built environment and urban governance have decisive roles to play. How should local and regional governments deal with these forces of change? How can elected officials and the professionals that plan, design, build and manage urban form contribute to positive outcomes? What can we learn from existing research, and where do we need more research? What can the private sector expect, and how can it partner with the public sector for the common good? Read more. |
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TRANSITION WORKSHOP AND MASTER CLASS 2020
July 13-24, 2020, Geneva, Switzerland
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The Braillard Architects Foundation (BFA), LISD and partners launch, under the overarching cultural Programme The Eco-Century Project ®, the first international workshop to address the professional interactions, scales and methods of the urgent ecological transition in the future urban realms.
We invite you to:
- Study the ecological transition through innovative action-research.
- Design with experts and stakeholders for sustainable communities.
- Join our global collaborative platform to boost your local initiatives.
- Be an agent of change for a bio-diverse and healthy planet. Read more.
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SUSTAINABLE & RESILIENT URBAN-RURAL PARTNERSHIPS 2020
November 25-27, 2020, Leipzig, Germany
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URP2020 will be embedded in the German EU Council presidency in 2020 and is under the auspices of the German Minister of Education and Research. The conference will provide an excellent stage for developing new urban-rural imaginaries, integrating strategies and projects that explore present and future potentials in terms of sustainability and resilience. ISOCARP will organise a special session in partnership with ESPON – European Territorial Observatory Network. Have a look at the session details and submit your abstract by May 31, 2020.
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Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Urban and Regional Planning
Dhaka: Bangladesh Institute of Planners, ISBN: 978-984-34-7970-9
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Bangladesh Institute of Planners (BIP) is proud to announce that the findings of the 1st International Conference on Urban and Regional Planning on the topic “Planning for Sustainable Cities and Communities” held in Dhaka, October 5-6, 2019 are now available online. |
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Spatial and Transport Infrastructure Development in Europe: Example of the Orient/East-Med Corridor
Hannover: ARL, ISBN: 978-3-88838-096-9
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The book edited by Bernd Scholl, Ana Peric and Mathias Niedermaier elucidates the Orient/East-Med Corridor is a key north-south transport corridor for Europe. Over its length of more than 2,500 km, it connects the seaports of northern Germany with the Danube ports and Greek seaports. Seven capitals of EU member states are directly interlinked by the Corridor. At present however, it has genuine shortcomings in several aspects. The international working group “Spatial and Transport Development in European Corridors: Example Corridor 22, Hamburg–Athens” (2015–2018)
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trace the conditions for large scale, corridor-oriented spatial and transport development in Europe and in particular along the Orient/East-Med Corridor. The contributions in the anthology also focus on the importance of transnational initiatives in Europe and on territorial effects of transport policies. Download free e-copy or order a book! |
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Call for Papers for the Second Issue of Annual Review of Territorial Governance in the Western Balkans
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Annual Review of Territorial Governance in the Western Balkans is the journal of Western Balkan Network on Territorial Governance (TG-WeB), coordinated by Co-PLAN, Institute for Habitat Development and POLIS University. The journal is a periodical publication with select policy briefs on matters related to territorial governance, sketching the present situation, the Europeanisation process, the policy and the research and development agenda for the near future. The call for submissions invites researchers, policy-makers and policy-influencing actors with keen interest on different
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countries in the Balkans, potential comparisons, and/or EU and international perspective relevant to territorial development and governance in the Balkans. Abstract submission deadline: April 30, 2020. For more information, have a look at the First Issue. |
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UNESCO Chair Programme on Cultural Heritage and Risk Management
September 2-24, 2020, Kyoto and other Heritage Sites in Japan
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Institute of Disaster Mitigation for Urban Cultural Heritage (R-DMUCH), Ritsumeikan University in cooperation with ICCROM and supported by UNESCO and ICOM invites you to participate in International Training Course (ITC) on Disaster Risk Management of Cultural Heritage 2020. The subtheme of ITC2020 is “Towards the Integrated Protection of Immovable and Movable Cultural Heritage from Risk of Fire”. Application deadline: applications should be e-mailed to r-itc@st.ritsumei.ac.jp by April 6, 2020 (JST). Please see the Guidelines for Application for more details. |
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18th European Week of Regions and Cities 2020: #EURegionsWeek Master Class
October 11-15, 2020, Brussels, Belgium
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The European Week of Regions and Cities (#EURegionsWeek) is the biggest annual Brussels-based event dedicated to regional policy. In 2019, the #EURegionsWeek reached a record high of more than 9000 participants and more than 330 sessions – proof of the event's relevance and potential as a platform for discussing and showcasing the development of EU cohesion policy and making decision-makers more aware of the importance of regions and cities in EU policy-making. More info. |
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Old Cities, New Challenges 2020 Course Announcement
November 13-21, 2020, Penang, Malaysia
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The Getty Conservation Institute and Think City Institute in Penang, Malaysia are just about to begin the application process related to the next Old Cities, New Challenges urban conservation training course. Please keep in mind that only participants from ASEAN countries are eligible to apply. Application deadline: April 15, 2020. A short description of the course and the application can found here. |
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Do you have news items of interest to the Society? If you have announcements and articles of general interest, please send them to Ana Peric and the Head Office for consideration in upcoming e-newsletters and our social media. Please do not email to the general membership without prior approval from Ana Peric on behalf of the ISOCARP Board. |
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