to represent the interest of planning schools
in Europe in national and international
administrations and organisations, particularly within Europe
to facilitate co-operation and exchange between
planning schools in Europe, and to
encourage the harmonisation and equivalence of their degrees
to articulate a European dimension within planning
education as part of the process of institutional co-operation and integration
within Europe, bearing in mind also the prospect of increasing professional
mobility within Europe
to foster and enrich higher education in planning
across Europe by mutual support, including
facilitating dialogue, exchange visits and the spread of information
to defend the cause of expanding and enhancing
higher education in planning and
to promote a progressive approach to planning
education in schools of planning by experts
with a rounded view against rival claims from older-established academic
units and from other
disciplines and professions