ECTP-CEU - European Council of Spatial Planners

10/06/2026

Could you please take a few moments to answer the question below?

In order to represent our organisation at different international bodies, I would be grateful for your help.

Thank you.

Kent G. Dagsland Håkull
ECTP-CEU ExCo
Delegate to the Council of Europe
Delegate FKP Norway

08/06/2026

🟥 The for projects of the 15th of European Towns and Town Planners has been published by the Associação Portuguesa de Urbanistas (APU, Portuguese Association of Planners), an ECTP-CEU member and local organiser of this year’s edition of the Biennale.
The Biennale will take place in , from Wednesday 11th to Friday 13th November 2026. This year’s Workshop (separate call published on 29th May) will be fully integrated into the Biennale programme. There will also be a rich programme of social events in the evenings and planners-relevant guided tours.

🟥 Theme, tracks and sessions
This year’s theme of the Biennale is “The Lens of Time in Spatial Planning”. There will be four thematic tracks, each one with a keynote speaker and one or more parallel sessions:
1️⃣ Time of the Process (Administrative Agility)
2️⃣ Time of Ex*****on (Construction & Circularity)
3️⃣ Time of People (Sovereignty & Rhythms)
4️⃣ Time of New Frontiers (AI, Digital and Social Paradigms)

🟥 Deadlines
📆 30 June 2026: abstract submission
📆 30 July 2026: communication of acceptance
📆 12 October 2026: full materials submission

🟥 Submission fee and tickets
The submission fees and ticket prices will be published soon. There will be early-bird discounts and discounts for individual members of ECTP-CEU member organisations who are up to date with their membership fees.

🟥 Info
For further details, the preliminary programme and abstract submission, please refer to the Call for projects, the event’s website at
🌐 [see link in the comments]
📧 or address your questions to [email protected].
Some additional information can also be found on ECTP-CEU’s website at
🌐 [see link in the comments]

🔵 The lists of ECTP-CEU’s full and corresponding member organisations and ECTP-CEU’s partners and friends are in the comments.

30/05/2026

🔴 Are you a in ?
🟠 This is an opportunity not to be missed!
🟡 The ECTP-CEU announces the for Projects for its 15th Workshop, to be held in from 11 to 13 November 2026 as part of ECTP-CEU’s 15th of European Towns and Town Planners.
🟢 The selected projects will be presented and discussed during the Biennale, on an international stage bringing together professionals, administrators and academics from across .

📌 Applications are open to individual professionals and teams of 2–3 young planners
📌 ECTP-CEU’s “35-10-year rule” applies
📌 10 European projects will be selected
📌 Each selected project receives a grant of 400 Euro
📌 At least one member of each selected team is required to attend in Lisbon
📌 Each young planner in attendance is invited for free to the official delegates’ dinner (networking opportunity)
📌 Academic or university research projects are not eligible
📌 Deadline: 29 June 2026

📩 We invite all young spatial planners working in Europe to apply based on their professional experience and to share this opportunity within their networks.

🔗 Call for Projects: see link in the comments
🔗 Biennale website: see link in the comments

🗺️ Do you have an innovative project to share with Europe? Now is the time to submit it.

08/03/2026

Congratulations to all of our formidable female planners on the 115th International Women's Day!

22/02/2026

A snapshot at ECTP-CEU’s first in-person meeting in 2026 in Brussels. Unfortunately three of us could not travel to Brussels due to bad weather conditions. They attended online. Nevertheless the meeting was very interesting and fruitful.
are good! 😊
21st February 2026

Catherine Vilquin, Tomasz Majda, Markus Hedorfer, Gerhard Vittinghoff, Kent G. Dagsland Håkull, Lidiia Chyzhevska, Richard Blyth, Sofia Tsadari and Martine Coets-Gaibili.

09/11/2025

15/09/2025

🔴 – in on 19th September
Industrial Architecture and Urban at your fingertips
The experience of the open call for and hackathon for living in a diffuse urban area
🗺️ Bruxelles-Brussels – Rue du Lombard 34/42 – Lombardstraat 34/42
🏛️ ULB Université Libre de Bruxelles – Faculté d’Architecture La Cambre Horta
📅 19th September 2025
🕑 14:00 – 17:30 CEST
▶️ Programme at [see in the comments]
📢 Speakers: Serge Peeters – Markus Hedorfer – Andrea Panzavolta – Janet Askew – Sylvain Vezolles – G. Dagsland Håkull

ECTP-CEU - European Council of Spatial Planners – Ordine Architetti Modena – – International Association of Facilitators - IAF – – Ministero della Cultura – Direzione Generale Creatività Contemporanea

24/08/2025

🔴 Workshop 2025 in
🟠 Theme: Planning of Small and Medium-Sized European Towns Since 2000
🟡 The call is out! Deadline 14 September 2025 (hurry up!)
🟢 All Young (only practitioners, only single participants) are invited to submit a 300-word summary to propose a work they’ve done or they’re doing for presentation at
🎤 ECTP-CEU’s 40th Celebration
📆 7 November 2025 in Bruxelles, Belgium.
💶 Every selected young planner receives 400 € + invitation to gala dinner
5️⃣ Only 5 planners will be selected this year

🔗 Link to the in the first comment 👇

🔵 ECTP-CEU – European Council of Spatial Planners

🌐 Ziviltechniker:innen Bundeskammer – VRP Vlaamse Vereniging voor Ruimte en Planning – Съюз на урбанистите в България – Asociace pro urbanismus a územní plánování ČR – Bundesarchitektenkammer – Société Française des Urbanistes – Σύλλογος Ελλήνων Πολεοδόμων & Χωροτακτών - ΣΕΠΟΧ – MUT - Magyar Urbanisztikai Társaság – Irish Planning Institute – ASSURB - Urbanisti italiani – Istituto Nazionale di Urbanistica – Forum for Kommunal Planlegging (FKP) – Towarzystwo Urbanistów Polskich – Associação Portuguesa de Urbanistas – Удружење урбаниста Србије/ Udruženje urbanista Srbije – Društvo urbanistov in prostorskih planerjev Slovenije – Združenie pre urbanizmus a územné plánovanie na Slovensku – Асоціація просторових планувальників України - Рада урбаністів НСАУ – Royal Town Planning Institute – SRL Vereinigung für Stadt-, Regional- und Landesplanung


⚙ University of Belgrade - Faculty of Architecture – Wydział Architektury PG – DIST - Dip. Interateneo di Scienze, Progetto e Politiche del Territorio – Dipartimento di Architettura, Design e Urbanistica - Università di Sassari – Shqipëria 2030/ AKPT – სივრცითი და ქალაქთმშენებლობითი განვითარების სააგენტო • Suda – OPQU – CivilScape – IFLA Europe – AIVP – Cobaty International ASBL – A.U.A. Albanian Union of Architects and Urban Planners – Асоцијација на архитекти на Македонија / Assoc. of Architects of Macedonia – Foreningen af Byplanlæggere - FAB – TMMOB Şehir Plancıları Odası – Collectif National des Jeunes Urbanistes (CNJU) – Skipulagsfræðingafélag Íslands – Zvidsy – Restart Agency – Gornja Lastva – world architects

05/06/2025

Hurry up!
Only a few hours left (until midnight) to submit your application for the 13th European Planning Awards. Filling in the table in the “tier-1 template” Word document takes only a few minutes. No complex outlines, posters or presentations required at this stage!

🥇 13th European Urban and Regional Planning
📢 The call is out!

📅 for submitting entry proposals is now to 5th June 2025
📌 Awards in on 7th November 2025

💡 For detailed info the call 👇
https://ectp-ceu.eu/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/awards-2025-call.pdf
and the submission template 👇
https://ectp-ceu.eu/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/awards-2025-template-tier1.docx

🔵 ECTP-CEU - European Council of Spatial Planners

🌐 Ziviltechniker:innen Bundeskammer – VRP Vlaamse Vereniging voor Ruimte en Planning – Съюз на урбанистите в България – Asociace pro urbanismus a územní plánování ČR – Bundesarchitektenkammer – SRL Vereinigung für Stadt-, Regional- und Landesplanung – Société Française des Urbanistes – Σύλλογος Ελλήνων Πολεοδόμων & Χωροτακτών - ΣΕΠΟΧ – MUT - Magyar Urbanisztikai Társaság – Irish Planning Institute – Skipulagsfræðingafélag Íslands – ASSURB - Urbanisti italiani – Istituto Nazionale di Urbanistica – Forum for Kommunal Planlegging (FKP) – Towarzystwo Urbanistów Polskich – Associação Portuguesa de Urbanistas – Удружење урбаниста Србије/ Udruženje urbanista Srbije – Društvo urbanistov in prostorskih planerjev Slovenije – Združenie pre urbanizmus a územné plánovanie na Slovensku – Асоціація просторових планувальників України - Рада урбаністів НСАУ – Royal Town Planning Institute


⚙️️ University of Belgrade - Faculty of Architecture – Politechnika Gdańska – DIST - Dip. Interateneo di Scienze, Progetto e Politiche del Territorio – Dipartimento di Architettura, Design e Urbanistica - Università di Sassari – სივრცითი და ქალაქთმშენებლობითი განვითარების სააგენტო • Suda – AIVP – CivilScape – Cobaty International ASBL – IFLA Europe – Zvidsy – OPQU