ISOCARP
INSTITUTE
Centre for
Urban
Excellence
ISOCARP INSTITUTE
Centre for Urban Excellence
We are the research spin-off of the International Society of City and Regional Planners (ISOCARP) and specialise in research, citizen engagement, advocacy, research communication and professional trainings in fields related to urban planning.
As a knowledge broker and think tank, we facilitate the cross-learning border dissemination and adoption of transdisciplinary knowledge and innovation across sectors, governance levels and communities.
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LATEST NEWS AND UPDATES
Welcome to our first News Update of 2025! We sincerely hope that the new year has started well for all of you, as it has for the Institute. In recent weeks we have been successful in acquiring two new projects related to green spaces and soils in cities. We are excited about these new challenges! As usual, the Institute is striving for Urban Excellence, and we are therefore looking to engage more with the urban community: we will soon be opening a new chapter of the Institute on our website, in the spirit of urban inclusiveness. Stay tuned!
Our activities are very rich between research, technical assistance and capacity-building: in this August 2024 edition, we give an update on our different European Research projects. We are also thrilled to announce that we are part of the team working on the project Urban Retrofit UK in partnership with the University of Glasgow and UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence (CaCHE); this project is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (part of UK Research and Innovation) and will investigate how cities can be planned and ‘retrofitted’ for net-zero living, as well as conduct research on place-based approaches to an environmentally sustainable future, providing evidence to support local and national decision making. We are looking forward to engaging in exciting events in the months to come!
