AESOP CharterAESOP's was founded in 1987 and has been registered as a non-profit association under Belgian law since May 1992.
The formal charter establishing AESOP was signed in Dortmund, Germany in 1987 and has the following objectives:
- to
represent the interest of planning schools in Europe in national and
international administrations and organisations, particularly within
Europe
- to promote the development of teaching and research in the field of planning
- 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
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