The UFP team and partners present at the 2023 AESOP Congress

The session was a part of the annual congress of the "Association of European Schools of Planning" that was held in Lodz, Poland from 11-15 July 2023. The UFP team contributed with three presentations to the session. The first presentation was by Jun.- Prof. Dr. Cathrin Zengerling, titled, “Tracing accountability chains and design of climate action planning in eight international cities – on gaps, traps and bridges”. This was followed by MSc. Nikita John who presented on “Demystifying urban planning by identifying invited spaces: Status Quo of Participatory Processes in Infrastructure Planning in Delhi”. The third presentation by MSc. Ahmed Tarek Alahwal was titled “Authority in Cairo‘s climate governance: New authority bases and spaces for actors in the planning of multi-level urban climate governance."

The other partners who presented at the session were Prof. Dr. Debora Sotto of the University of São Paulo, Brazil, Prof. Dr. Oliver Fuo & Prof. Anél du Plessis of the North West University, South Africa, Dipl.-Geogr. Andreas Obersteg of the HafenCity University in Hamburg, Germany, Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Robert Knippschild of the Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development & Technische Universität Dresden, as well as Prof. Dr. Agnes Förster of the RWTH Aachen University, Germany.

As an outcome of the contributions to this session, a special issue is in the process of being prepared for publication.