European Urban Summer School
for young planning professionals
In 2010 AESOP launched a new annual event: the European Urban Summer School (EUSS) for young professionals. AESOP wanted to bring together young professionals and experienced academics and practitioners across Europe to discuss planning issues.
AESOP expected that it would facilitate trans-European understanding of planning matters and, as a consequence, will help to improve the quality of life. These aims corresponded with AESOP objectives enumerated in AESOP Charter. AESOP wished to involve both EU and non-EU countries into the project knowing that AESOP has no geographical limits of the membership.
AESOP has offered its resources in teaching at European Urban Summer Schools. This idea was to facilitate trans-European exchange and to foster a debate on the most important planning topics. It was supposed to promote every involved actors as bodies being able to help politicians and other stakeholders in spatial development and management issues.
This concept didn't involve economic profit. The European Urban Summer School should be a platform of debate and exchange and should be run on as low as possible fee for participants. Tutors do not get any fee for their work.
AESOP decided to invite European partners from planning organizations to cooperate in this project. In 2012 the folowing organsations have joined EUSS: European Council of Spatial Planners (ECTP-CEU), International Federation for Housing and Planning (IFHP), International Society for City and Regional Planners (ISOCARP).
2nd European Urban Summer School, Lusofona Univeristy, Lisbon, 23/09-1/10 2011
The second EUSS (2011) took place in Lisbon, Portugal and involved more partners. AESOP invited ECTP-CEU and IFHP to join the event along with ISOCARP and EURA. Representatives of each organization were present in the EUSS2011 Committee and they offered their tutors and organizational help.
EUSS 2011 theme: Quality of Space – Quality of Life
EUSS 2011 explored the definition and meaning of quality of urban space and its relation to the quality of life. Analysing carefully selected cases EUSS 2011 would like to ask numerous questions: do they lack quality? what is quality itself? how it does relate to urban space? what is essential about quality of urban space? are there components increasing quality of space? what kind of mechanism affect quality of space?
But description and analysis were not only EUSS 2011 goal. They helped with understanding but they did not deliver the answer.
EUSS 2011 would like also to look for the methods for evaluation, monitoring and improving quality of urban space. EUSS 2011 would like to compose the guidelines for assessment quality of urban space and comprising the set of tools for refining it.
EUSS 2011 would like to offer a solution not only ask the question.
More at: http://www.aesop.euss2011.net/
UN-Habitat & AESOP European Urban Summer School - Wroclaw, 10-19 September 2010
Published at: 3 May 2011
UN-Habitat and AESOP want to bring together young professionals and experienced academics and practitioners from across Europe to discuss the most important planning issues.
The Summer School will facilitate intra-European exchange of practitioners and academics and will promote trans-European debates on and understanding of planning matters. It will promote cooperation between professionals, aca-demics, politicians and other stakeholders in spatial development and management and, as a consequence, will con-tribute in improving the quality of life of Europe's citizens and foster debate on important planning topics.
These aims correspond to UN Habitat's focus and the AESOP Charter.
European Urban Summer School 2010, knowing that 'old', 'past' and 'heritage' are fashionable, will be exploring the question if they are also sustainable.
Wrocław, a city in Central Europe, was chosen as the host because of two reasons. First, being a medium-sized European city it serves as a good example to study important topics of this class of cities. Secondly, having multi-cultural roots and the unique experience of changing population after WW2, it is an interesting case study of building local identity and overcoming historical burden
Additional information can be found at http://unhabitat.org.pl/euss/
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2010 - Wroclaw (Poland), 10-19 September UN-Habitat&AESOP European Urban Summer School
2011 - Lisbon (Portugal), 23-30 September EUSS in cooperation with ECTP-CEU, EURA, IFHP, ISOCARP