Habitat and Cities

The main objective is to improve participation of City Professionals in the development and implementation of innovative urban and architectural tools and approaches for design, planning and construction. General aims of these Chairs are to: - increase critical knowledge of technical responses to problems related to urban planning, architecture and built environment with specialised NGOs, universities and private institutions; - improve institutional dialogue between City Professionals, NGOs, universities' research centres, social movements and public organizations.

 

Capacity-building for city professionals and co-operation networking With the aim of strengthening scientific, professional and institutional capacities and adapting the academic education with the present needs of the profession in an urbanizing world, particularly in developing countries, a new project has been launched through the "Latin American Network for City Professionals". Interdisciplinary and intercultural approaches to the education of Architects, Land- and Townplanners are also being developed within working groups in co-operation with Urban NGO's. City Professionals MOST Capacity building for young scientists has embarked upon a new activity focusing on the training of "city professionals" which is to deal with the problems of the disparity between university training, changing professional practices regarding the production and management of urban space and developments in the job market. This international project aims not only to adapt study programmes to the challenges currently facing city professionals, but also to improve the development and use of techniques and skills and enhance the ability of institutions to develop appropriate responses to the new methods of planning and governing urban space, such as teamwork among the different professional sectors involved in this field. The project is being implemented to begin with in the Latin American and the Caribbean region. Based on the choice of a small number of innovative educational experiments being carried out in universities of the region, it consists in setting up a platform for exchanges between higher education and research centres, professional associations and other civil society organisations, in order to ensure mutual support and the dissemination and replication of know-how. More detailed information on the project is available in English, French and Spanish. Below a list of established UNESCO Chairs - UNITWIN Networks in the field of Habitat and Cities by country.

	Bioethics
	Economics & Business
	Future-Oriented Studies
	Habitat & Cities
	Health & Development
	Peace & human rights
	International Relations
	Migration & Multiculturalism
	Philosophy & Ethics
	Political Sciences
	Societal Problems
	Sustainable Development
	Sustainable Tourism
	Women Issues