SPRING Master Programme
SPRING (Spatial Planning for Regions in Growing Economies) is a two year Master´s degree programme that addresses up to date topics of spatial planning in developing countries. In lectures, participants of the SPRING Programme discuss for instance the rapid growth of megacities, searching for solutions in the conflict between environmental protection and economic development as well as dealing with strategies to improve traffic systems. The course starts with one year of study in Dortmund, Germany, followed by the second year at one of the four partner universities in Asia, Africa or Latin America. At TU Dortmund University SPRING is with now more than 25 years the oldest Master course and was the first one being conducted in English.
IGLUS – Innovative Governance for large Urban Systems
IGLUS is a non-profit initiative of EPFL and selected partners, seeking to help cities better understand the strengths and weaknesses of the governance of their infrastructures with respect to the dimensions Efficiency, Sustainability, and Resilience.
IGLUS brings together practitioners (city managers, city officials, urban services providers, etc.) and academics from many different disciplines (amongst others, urban planners, architects, geographers, engineers, economists, management experts, and political scientists). IGLUS’ multidisciplinary approach focuses on infrastructures (technologies), institutions (rules), actors (organizations) and pervasive information and communication technologies (ICTs). The Faculty of Spatial Planning is part of the IGLUS programme.
www.iglus.org
Research and Graduate School
Under the funding scheme “Partnerships for sustainable solutions with Sub-Saharan Africa” of the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research Prof. Baumgart and Prof. Grieving of the Faculty of Spatial Planning recently initiated a Graduate School on Governance and Planning of Resilient Cities in East Africa.
