In the picture, AESOP founders in 1987

   

Charter
 


AESOP's was founded in 1987

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

AESOP has been registered as a non-profit association under Belgian law since May 1992.

 


Download here the Full Charter (May 1992), and find information on:

- Destination
- Aims
- Registered address
- Members
- Rights and duties
- Administration
- Assembly
- Council
- Executive
- Budgets and accounts
- Extinction of members' rights
- Modification of constitution