"Lifelong learning" nowadays is a requirement in almost all occupations to meet the ever-changing demands.
Urban planning and spatial planning in particular are required to keep up with the times with regard to dealing with the "city of the future".
In addition to university education, there are a variety of opportunities to expand the professional horizons and to exchange views with experts from your own city or region, but also from all over the world.
Congresses, conferences, trade fairs but also project-specific seminars and workshops offer a very good opportunity to keep up with the times and build up and maintain the personal network.
Also international planning clubs and associations can be very helpful when it comes to further development.

The seminar offered is intended to provide a compact overview of selected

• professional (international) events
• international planning associations / clubs
• Online resources in the planning area

and provide the participants with insights for a successful entry into the world of knowledge networks outside their home university.

• Overview conferences / congresses / fairs / seminars / project-specific events: similarities and differences, motivations for organizers and participants

• Example international conference: Procedure / rules of the game, how do I participate, what do I do there, how do I manage to give a lecture myself and come to my own specialist publication

• Overview "Planning Associations": IFHP - International Federation of Housing and Planning; INTA - International Urban Development Association: ISOCARP - International Society of City and Regional Planners; ...

• Overview international planning - e.g. UN-Habitat, UNIDO, EU Structural Funds, ...
  Online sources for planning know-how

• selected online sources for planning know-how

Analysis of 3 or 6 (depending if CORP-participation or not)  conference papers on spatial planning / urban development and related fields that are available online, preferably from the program of the conference CORP2019, but also papers from other conferences can be selcted; 2-3 pages analysis per paper of what is particularly interesting, what is incomprehensible, why an article is particularly good or not very good;

Participation in the introductory event in March 2019 and the final event in June 2019; desired but not mandatory: free participation in international conference CORP2019 at KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, 1.-5. April 2019

Transmission of the results until 24.5.2019 by email to manfred.schrenk@gmail.com

Remarks on "Paper Analysis"
• Analysis of 3 or 6 (depending if CORP-participation or not) self-selectable articles on spatial planning / urban development (including "related disciplines")
preferably from the program of the conference CORP2019, which are all available online via www.corp.at; contributions from other conferences are also welcome.

• "I have selected the following articles bechause ..."

• How would you cite the articles if you write a scientific paper yourself?
in each case information from author (s), title of article, published where / when / in ... (publisher ?, ISBN-Nr.?; ev. additional information (Open ...?)), link to online version

• Justification, why just this Articles were selected
technically interesting; Points of contact to your own interests or topics that are currently being worked on; Title sounds exciting; Author (s) known (personally or as recognized experts); spatial reference; "Familiar / exotic"; ...

• 2-3 pages analysis of what is particularly interesting, what is incomprehensible, why an article is particularly good or not very good; relevant topic ?; understandable and clearly structured ?; helpful for further activities; ...

(Criticism based on solid argumentation is very welcome)

• Transmission as PDF by email to manfred.schrenk@gmail.com to 24.5.2019

Englisch als Fachsprache von Vorteil, da die meisten Quellen/Publikationen auf Englisch sind