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IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT

ECTP-CEU Autumn General Assembly 2023 to be held in Gdansk (Poland) with Conference on ‘Transforming Cities’ At the generous invitation of the Gdansk City Architect, Professor Piotr Lorens and the TUP President, Tomasz Majda, the ECTP-CEU Autumn General Assembly 2023 is going to be held in Gdansk (Poland) from 4th November – 8th November 2023, alongside their conference on ‘Transforming Cities’. The City Architect is inviting contributions from planners across Europe to contribute to the conference.  The ECTP-CEU Young Planners’ Workshop will be incorporated into the conference.  More details will follow soon. We can also announce that the combined event

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11 July 2023
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Spatial Planning Governance for 21st Century

As part of the ECTP-CEU General Assembly, the host country organises a conference on a specific theme. On 22th May, the conference which was organised together with the Malta Chamber of Planners and the Department of Spatial Planning & Infrastructure (University of Malta) was entitled – SPATIAL PLANNING GOVERNANCE FOR THE 21ST CENTURY.  Here are the report and the video

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10 July 2023

The quality of construction in the light of the various new regulations: an interprofessional approach

On Friday 30 June2023, ECTP-CEU had the opportunity to participate actively in an important event organised by Cobaty International -an ECTP-CEU partnership member- and Cobaty Italia in #Milan, Italy. The title was ‘#Quality in the #construction of the built environment in the light of the new #norm – an inter-professional approach’. ECTP-CEU vice president Markus Hedorfer participated representing the European #spatial #planners. Other professions who spoke at the conference were architects, engineers, builders, developers, legal experts, notaries, economists, EU decision makers ; it was a brilliant opportunity to work on vertical expertise integration around the construction sector, where spatial #planning

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7 July 2023

ECTP-CEU Conference : Spatial Planning Governance for the 21st Century

Recently ECTP-CEU had a terrific conference in Malta about spatial planning governance for the 21st century. We feel privileged to have amongst our members a diversity of countries across the whole of Europe –east, west, north and for this Spring Conference we were meeting in one of our most southernly states. We feel that we can enlighten ourselves as planners, by discussing our most pressing problems and exchanging our most inspirational ideas for good planning. At this conference, Janet Askew, our President held an interesting speech centered around the question, why governance? In this speech she explained the importance of

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28 June 2023
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Successful conference on Spatial Planning Governance for the 21st Century held in historic World Heritage city of Valletta, Malta

The ECTP-CEU were the key participants in a conference organised by the Malta Chamber of Planning, held in Valletta, Malta on Monday 22nd May 2023.  The theme of the conference was ‘Spatial planning governance for the 21st century’, and a variety of speakers gave insights into planning in Malta.  They included the Minister of Planning for Malta, and the President of the ECTP-CEU, alongside a keynote guest, Natasha Day, who talked about the new Spatial Plan for the Channel Island of Jersey. The Times of Malta wrote up a report on the conference – see: https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/planners-urged-focus-common-good-chamber-pushes-warrants.1033175 In addition the Royal Town

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10 May 2023
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‘ECTP-CEU takes part in meeting of Davos Baukultur Alliance in Switzerland’

Janet Askew, President of the ECTP-CEU had the privilege of attending a meeting of the Davos Baukultur Alliance in January in Switzerland. The ECTP-CEU found itself in esteemed company to discuss vital issues so important to spatial planners. Ministers of 31 countries, along with civil society organisations (NGOs and IGOs) and major construction and real estate companies met in Davos on the eve of the World Economic Forum. The ECTP-CEU sat alongside other IGOs, including ACE (architects), ICOMOS (ancient monuments), Europa Nostra (historic environments), IFLA (landscape architects), ICCROM (cultural heritage), INGO (group of all IGOs who are members of the

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21 March 2023