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| name = European Spatial Development Planning Network
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| type = Network of [[Europe]]an universities
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| foundation = 1987<!-- this parameter modifies "Founded" -->
| founder = Louis Albrechts
| location_city = [[Leuven]]
| location_country = [[Belgium]]
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| key_people = [[Frank Moulaert]], Flavia Martinelli, Arantxa Rodriguez, AbdelIllah Hamdouch 
| area_served = [[Spatial planning|Spatial development and planning]], [[Town planning]]
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The '''European Spatial Development Planning''' or '''ESDP-Network''' seeks to promote [[education]], [[research]] and professional [[training]] in [[spatial planning]] across [[Europe]]an countries, in collaboration with many partners in other regions of the world. To this purpose it considers planning as a process and a change agenda.[https://web.archive.org/web/20110706232144/http://www.irl.ethz.ch/re/news/news_archive/KUL-IWT-CongresLeuven2007.pdf]

Presently coordinated by [[Frank Moulaert]] at [[Global Urban Research Unit]], [[Newcastle University]], the network coordinates a number of student and staff mobility programmes involving various partner institutions in a number of [[Europe]]an countries. The existing structure is a merger of the '''Spatial Development Planning network''' established by Louis Albrechts at the [[Katholieke Universiteit Leuven|University of Leuven]], [[Belgium]] in 1987 and that built around the European [[Town planning]] by Richard Williams at [[Newcastle University]] in the 1990s. The overlaps between both networks shows a natural basis for their integration.

== Aims and objectives ==
The basic aims of the network revolve around the need to promote the [[Planning]] practices across [[Europe]], interdisciplinary interactions, and identification of successful planning experiences.

Three kinds of staff and students exchanges are supported under the banner of the network: 
* General [[ERASMUS programme]] mobility; 
* Short Intensive Programmes; and, 
* a comprehensive Postgraduate Certificate in European Spatial Development and Planning.

Apart from this the network scholars are also engaged in wider interdisciplinary research through various programmes funded by [[European Commission]] and respective national institutions.

The network also holds regular scholarly events that generally address the evolution of planning aspects since the inception of the network.

== Participating institutions ==
{{BEL}}:
* [[Katholieke Universiteit Leuven]], [[Leuven]]
{{FRA}}:
* [[University of Lille]], [[Lille]]
* [[François Rabelais University]], [[Tours]]
{{GER}}:
* [[University of Bremen]], [[Bremen]]
{{GRE}}:
* [[Harokopio University]], [[Athens]]
{{ITA}}:
* [[University of Milan Bicocca|Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca]], [[Milan]]
* [[Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria|Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria]], [[Reggio Calabria]]
* [[Polytechnic University of Turin|Politecnico di Torino]], [[Turin]]
* [[University of Rome La Sapienza|Università di Roma La Sapienza]], [[Rome]]
* [[University of Naples Federico II|Università degli Studi di Napoli Fredrico-II]], [[Naples]]
{{POR}}:
* [[University of Aveiro]], [[Aveiro, Portugal|Aveiro]]
{{SVK}}:
* [[Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava|Slovenská technická univerzita v Bratislave]], [[Bratislava]]
{{ESP}}:
* [[University of the Basque Country]], [[Bilbao]]
{{SWE}}:
*[[KTH Royal Institute of Technology]], [[Stockholm]]
* [[Blekinge Institute of Technology|Blekinge Tekniska Högskola]], [[Blekinge]]
{{TUR}}:
* [[Middle East Technical University]], [[Ankara]]
{{GRB}}:
* [[University of Newcastle upon Tyne]], [[Newcastle upon Tyne]], [[England]]
* [[Cardiff University]], [[Wales]]

== See also ==
* [[Global Urban Research Unit]]
* [[ESPRID]]

{{Networks of European universities|State=collapsed}}

[[Category:European research networks]]