The modul predominantly focuses on informing students about how to plan and develop research and planning designs. Further goals are:

- development of students' capabilities to develop calls, proposals and offers for planning and research projects

- presentation and discussion of ongoing but also already finished research and planning processes

- presentation of funding institutions and planning clients in the EU and Austria

After giving an overview of the research and planning funding landscape for urban and regional research and planning in the EU and Austria, in the lecture basics concerning different types of research (e.g. applied, action research, case studies, comparative studies, etc) and of planning (local, regional, national level instruments of planning) will be presented and discussed through explaining project examples for each type of planning and research. Furthermore, focus will be laid on certain parts of research and planning design: project plans, time and budget plans, project governance (actors and their interactions), forms of dissemination of the produced knowledge.

Diese LVA ist zusammen mit der UE Forschungs- und Planungsdesign Bestandteil des Master Pflichtmodul 1: Forschungs- und Planungsdesign.

written examination