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Department of Open Space Planning and Design
Leibniz University Hannover Germany
The Leibniz University Hannover (LUH) is one of the nine leading Institutes of Technology in Germany. Founded in 1831, LUH today serves as a place of study and work for ca. 28,000 students and more than 350 professors across a diverse disciplinary spectrum spanning the natural sciences and engineering, humanities and social sciences, and law and economics.

The Institute of Open Space Planning and Design is part of the Faculty for Architecture and Landscape Sciences and one of three institutes of the Landscape Unit, which has a 75-year experience in research and education for landscape architecture.
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Research laboratory 1: Transformation
Aarhus School of Architecture
The Aarhus School of Architecture (AAA) was established in 1965 and has about 700 students and provides a three-year Bachelor programme, a two-year Master programme, a three-year PhD programme and professional master studies. In 1988, AAA became a research institution and the PhD program was introduced. Since then, AAA has awarded over 100 PhD degrees.
In 2021 AAA moved into the first new-built school of Architecture in Denmark with state-of-the-art workshops and a top of the arts Library.
In its efforts to strengthen architectural research, AAA deliberately works with a broad concept of research that ranges from scientifically founded research over research by design to artistic development work.
In its Research Laboratory ‘Transformation’, AAA combines the professional fields within landscapes, urban development, planning, urban spaces, heritage and buildings, containing material as well as immaterial aspects and mindsets.
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Academy of Arts
UiT The Arctic University of Norway
UiT The Arctic University of Norway is the northernmost university of the world located in Tromsø, Norway. The university was founded in 1968. Today approximately 17000 students and 3500 staff study and work at UiT. The academic community in Tromsø is highly international. More than 20% of the academic staff and 10% of the student body are from abroad.
UiT's study portfolia covers all classical subject areas from health sciences, social sciences, education and humanities, science and technology to economics, law, social work, tourism, sports and fine arts.
UiT's key research focuses on the polar environment, climate research, indigenous people, peace and conflict transformation, telemedicine, medical biology, space physics, fishery science, marine biosprospecting, linguistics and computational chemistry.
The landscape architecture programme at UiT is placed at The Academy of Arts. The programme offers a masters degree in landscape architecture giving special emphasis to arctic/subarctic conditions.
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Department of Landscape Architecture, Biotechnical Faculty
University of Ljubljana
The University of Ljubljana is the leading education and research institution in Slovenia spanning across a diverse disciplinary spectrum from natural sciences, engineering, humanities, social sciences, law and economics to art, at 26 full members, including 3 art academies. The Department of Landscape Architecture of the Biotechnical Faculty has its own research programme funded by the National Research Agency (Landscape as a Living Environment). UL will start a doctoral programme in art (RTD) in 2024-2025.
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Institute of Urban Design and Landscape Architecture, Research Unit Landscape Architecture and Landscape Planning
TU Wien
The Technische Universitaet Wien was founded in 1815. It is Austria's largest research and educational institution in the field of technology and natural sciences with more than 26,000 students in 62 degree programs, and more than 4,000 scientists in five main research areas at eight faculties. Prof. Dr. sc. Susann Ahn and Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas E. Hauck share a joint professorship at the Faculty of Architecture and Planning, Institute of Urban Design and Landscape Architecture, and are heads of the Research Unit Landscape Architecture and Landscape Planning. They teach landscape architecture and landscape planning to more than 7,400 students in the study program of architecture as well as the study program of spatial planning. Their research and teaching are dedicated to post-anthropocentric approaches reflecting self-dynamic and conflict-resolution processes in urban planning projects with the aim of co-habitation.
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Department of Geosciences, Environment and Spatial Planning, Faculty of Sciences
University of Porto
University of Porto (UPO) is Portugal’s second largest university and one of the most prestigious teaching and research institutions in the country. It has over 31.000 students (around 1500 international students) and 2300 full-time academic staff. This high qualification level of the teaching staff, combined with advanced lab technology and equipment, as well as the close connections with the business world ensure first-class training. The Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto (FCUP) aims at generating and disseminate knowledge in Science and Technology in order to contribute to the grand Society Global Challenges. FCUP has large experience in European Projects with several previous EU grants in FP6, FP7, in H2020 and in Horizon Europe.
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