After successful completion of the course, students are able to understand the general institutional structure of the EU and to use this expertise to explain political processes in the Union. Additionally, they can identify spatial and economic structures and major trends of european regional development to consider relevant challenges for the european integration process. Especially, the students are qualified to understand the main instruments, concepts and measures of European cohesion policies, to apply them in practice and to develop a critical view on their spatial and structural effects.
1 The European Union
2 Economic disparities in Europe
3 Cohesion Policy
4 Other relevant EU-policies
Detection of currents problems
Critical debate on institutions and instruments
Discussion of case studies
Die Vorleseung wird über Vortragsvideos (die über TUPeerTUbe gestreamt werden können) und in Präsenz im Hörsaal (Übertragung über einen Livestream in Zoom) abgehalten. Der genaue Ablauf der Lehrveranstaltung wird in der Vorbesprechung am 08.10.2020 erläutert.
individual oral examination (approx. 20 minutes)
Basic understanding of spatial development and rough overview on instruments of spatial planning.