Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP)

With over 150 members, AESOP is the only representation of planning schools of Europe. Given this unique position, AESOP strengthens its profile as a professional body. AESOP mobilizes its resources, taking a leading role and entering its expertise into ongoing debates and initiatives regarding planning education and planning qualifications of future professionals. AESOP promotes its agenda with professional bodies, politicians and all other key stakeholders in spatial and urban development and management across Europe.

These aims are achieved through a number of activities:

• Annual Congress, on European, national, regional and local spatial planning issues
• Yearly meeting of the Heads of Schools discussing planning curricula
• PhD Workshop for young academics
• European Urban Summer School for young planning professionals
• Lecture Series
• Cooperation with planning professionnal bodies and other key stakeholders
• Research Thematic Groups
• Awards
• Publications

AESOP is founding member of the Decade of Planning.

AESOP STRUCTURE

The administrative and managerial organs of the AESOP are: the General Assembly, the Council of Representatives and the Executive Committee.

The Assembly is the Association’s formal means of consultation. All of the powers of the AESOP rest within the Council of Representatives which is a body elected by Full Members. The Executive Committee holds the managerial and administrative powers of the Association.

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