After successful completion of the course, students are able to...

develop reseacrh and planning strategies based on key elemenmts such as project management, governane and dissemination.

Students know about different types of research (e.g. applied, action research, case studies, comparative studies etc) and planning (local, regional, national level instruments of planning) and can discuss about explaining project examples for each type of planning and research.

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.

course lecture, obtaining knowledge from project works and their presentations

This course is related to UE Forschungs- und Planungsdesign, together they form the Master Pflichtmodul 1: Forschungs- und Planungsdesign.

written examination