6-8 February 2008
St. Petersburg, Russia

2nd AESOP Young Academics meeting:
"Looking Beyond one's Nose: Planning, Policies and Institutions for Integration"

The AESOP Young Academics Network and the North-West Academy of Public Administration – Faculty of State and Municipal Administration cordially invite proposals for individual papers for the 2nd YA meeting aimed to engage young scholars on planning and development issues.

The 2nd YA Meeting – ‘Looking Beyond One’s Nose: Planning, Policies and Institutions for Integration’ – aims to gather young researchers and students from a variety of cultural and disciplinary backgrounds. It also wants to discuss and encourage the exchange of ideas and research on evolving perceptions of the ‘border’, not only for what concerns its territorial implications but also its institutional, social and cultural dimensions.

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11-14 July 2007

The  Council of Representatives meeting in Naples, Italy

More info on the conference website

Click here to download CoRep Minutes

14 April 2007

The proceedings of the Leuven Head of Department meeting

Click here to download the report (pdf - 169 ko)

Bologna Survey Report

now available online

A presentation by Simin Davoudi (AESOP past president) about the Bologna process for ACSP (Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, North America) can be found here.

Prof. KUNZMANN is awarded for his lifetime achievements

7-10 February 2007

1st YA meeting 

Bratislava , Slovakia ,

Join the AESOP Young Academics in their '1st AESOP Young Academics Meeting' in Bratislava , Slovakia , February 7-10, 2007. T his year's meeting aims to address planning and development issues most pertinent to Central and Eastern Europe . Abstracts are due October 15, 2006.

World Planning Schools Congress 2007 - Mexico City

To the postgraduate module Sustainable Development in the Urban Region in Germany and the US: Dresden and Columbus as Examples

The Department of Spatial Development and Planning, at the Technische Universität Dresden, Germany, with Prof. Dr. h.c. Bernhard Mueller. It is the AESOP member school that gets the prise, though at a world planning congress it is pleasant with the cooperation the Planning School at Ohio State University, Columbus, in the United States. So Prof. Dr. Hazel Morrow-Jones also got a prize diploma.

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- Best Paper Competition awarded to:

Kate Shaw "The Place of Alternative Culture and the Politics of its Protection in Berlin, Amsterdam and Melbourne'. In the journal Planning Theory and Practice

The committee further provided a distinction of honor to the essay of: John Friedmann "Globalization and the emerging culture of planning"  In the journal Progress in Planning

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- Professor Louis Albrechts, a founding member of AESOP, was granted Aesop’s second honorary memberhip.

16-18 March 2006

Bratislava

AESOP Head of Department Meeting

The Bologna Process

Prof Patsy Healey, a founding member of AESOP, was granted Aesop’s second honorary memberhip at the 2004 General Assembly.

In the Chart of our Association we have a special category of membership: that of Honorary members. We have used this in the past only once. Klaus Kunzmann has been nominated Honorary member in the first years of life of Aesop. Now that Aesop is approaching its adulthood I have been discussing with Exco and Corep about the opportunity to nominate new honorary members with the intention of recognising those scholars who have put a particular effort in the development of Aesop in terms of ideas, organisational activity and representation of the Association in the external world. Corep has accepted this idea and we have decided that one honorary member for each term of presidency should be recognised in order to give a sense of continuity and of constructing a new tradition.
Therefore it is my turn. Having the opportunity of nominating a second Honorary member among the many distinguished scholars who have contributed to the development of Aesop I haven't had many doubts. Among the most distinguished "founding fathers" of Aesop we have had only one "founding mother": Patsy Healey. She has been the one who, with the care of a mother, has probably contributed most to our growth: in the group who has conceived the same idea of Aesop at the beginning of the '80s, being President between 1994 and 1996, launching various working groups, introducing the best paper prize, and providing Aesop always with new ideas and suggestions. Now that still very young she has retired from active academic life she continues to be involved in practice and research in a more essential way showing with all her energy the way to follow for all the scholars of our association.
I, myself, have been asked by Patsy in 1994 to chair the working group on planning research and this has been the beginning of my commitment in Aesop. It is a great honour for me to ask now Patsy Healey to become our Honorary member continuing to be linked to the association she has contributed to create and strengthen.

Sandro Balducci