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Postgraduate European Module Spatial Development Planning (Leuven)

Postgraduate

In Leuven ()

£ 1,500.94 VAT inc.

*Indicative price

Original amount in EUR:

1,750 €

Description

  • Type

    Postgraduate

  • Duration

    Flexible

The European Module in Spatial Development Planning is an intensive post-graduate programme offered at the KU Leuven to students, researchers and practitioners from across the world who share a philosophy on planning, territorial development and social innovation that is oriented to serve progress in society. The module extensively draws from the social sciences in the broadest sense, adopts a pluralist approach, both in analytical focus and planning methodology, and is strongly anchored to principles of equity, social innovation and sustainability
The programme provides structured teaching, a series of research seminars, and personalised tutoring on ongoing research. For the participants, it is a unique opportunity to deepen or refresh their academic and practical knowledge and to enhance their ongoing research.

About this course

The EMSDP is an integrated advanced teaching programme for post-graduate students, researchers and practitioners in spatial planning.

The main goal is to explore spatial transformation processes and the way several disciplines are providing interdisciplinary insights into spatial issues. Due to the wide cooperation with international academic partners, the EMSDP is tightly related to the ongoing international debates and research activities. At the same time, it keeps an eye to the past in order to understand evolutions in the field and the way spatial dynamics have been addressed.

Based on three forms of training (structured lectures, self-standing presentations and an interactive post-graduate research seminar), the EMSDP empowers students to address spatial development and planning issues - including urban and regional plan-making, programmes and policies - from a complex interdisciplinary perspective that lies at the crossroads of economics, sociology, spatial planning, urbanism, geography, political science, etc.

PhD students can enhance their research methodological capacities, which should enable them to follow a professional academic trajectory. For them, the EMSDP is a unique opportunity to develop their research capacities and test the robustness of their topic and adopted methodology. It is considered an integral part of their PhD research activities and is fully recognized by the home institutions. Participation in the EMSDP has proved a very positive factor for PhD graduates to find a job in the academic or research world (Alumni records available).

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Subjects

  • Approach
  • Teaching
  • Engineering Science
  • Innovation
  • Spatial Planning
  • Planning
  • Engineering
  • Exchange
  • Science
  • Engineer
  • Programme
  • Faculty
  • Erasmus
  • Erasmus exchanges
  • Specifically

Course programme

The EMSDP is designed as an intensive training opportunity for two types of participants:

  • Students in regular post-graduate university programmes (Ph.D. and II level Master) and other academic fellows working on their dissertations or engaged in some research project.
  • Practitioners (professionals, civil servants, activists) who wish to refresh and/or deepen the skills acquired in previous studies and practice and to improve their research capabilities.

Given the interdisciplinary nature of its content and approach, the programme is open to people from different backgrounds - economics, sociology, anthropology, social work, geography, spatial planning and design, environmental studies, political sciences and other disciplines involved in urban and regional studies. Practitioners in spatial planning and design, environmental planning, urban and regional planning and community development are very welcome.

The maximum number of admitted participants is 20. Criteria for selection are:

  • quality and appropriateness of the applicants' research topic
  • capacity to manage general competences at an advanced level
  • capacity to reflect on professional experience from the perspective of theory and ethics
  • scientific way of thinking and capacity to deal with complex problems
  • capacity to contribute interactively to processes of knowledge production
  • attitude to crosscut disciplines and scientific theories
  • ability to communicate research questions and early findings

The EMSDP combines teaching and seminar activities.

The teaching activities are structured along three modules:

1. Socio-economic Development in Space (8 ECTS);

2. Planning Theory and Practice (8 ECTS);

3. Emblematic Planning Experiences in a Comparative Perspective (8 ECTS).

The first module lays the common conceptual basis of the debate concerning socio-economic development in space and sets the broad analytical framework for the subsequent teaching contributions. The second module makes students acquainted with the main traditions, theories and approaches of spatial planning, territorial development and social innovation. It discusses the diverse dimensions of spatial development analysis and planning, which has become a matter of integrating complex agendas – through spatial strategy making – and democratic consultation as well as decision-making. The third module focuses on the methodological dimension of research agendas, linking concepts and approaches deployed in the other modules and providing a comprehensive methodological synthesis for comparative analysis. The case studies presented in this module are selected from different countries and have different spatial scales and issues, showing the analytical building blocks presented at the beginning of the module.

Parallel to the lectures and case-study presentations, research seminar activities pay particular attention to the development of the students’ research capacity. All participants to the EMSDP present their individual research work and its progress (6 ECTS) at least twice over the duration of the programme, to both peer participants and an international panel of tutors from the partner universities.

Postgraduate European Module Spatial Development Planning (Leuven)

£ 1,500.94 VAT inc.

*Indicative price

Original amount in EUR:

1,750 €