networks

Internacional networks

  • AESOP - Association of European Schools of Planning

With over 150 members, AESOP is the only representation of planning schools of Europe. Given this unique position, AESOP strengthens its profile as a professional body. AESOP mobilizes its resources, taking a leading role and entering its expertise into ongoing debates and initiatives regarding planning education and planning qualifications of future professionals. AESOP promotes its agenda with professional bodies, politicians and all other key stakeholders in spatial and urban development and management across Europe.

Members: Fernando Brandão Alves, Miguel Lopes, Sara Santos Cruz (responsible for Research Affairs)

AET was founded in 1998 as a non-profit making organisation open to anyone wishing to advance transport planning through discussion and debate amongst professionals. Its members include both individuals and organisations. The Association organises Europe's oldest multi-disciplinary, multi-stream annual transport conference, the European Transport Conference (ETC).

Members: António Lobo (Board Director responsible for the Publications Working Group and Member of the Intelligent Mobility – Management and Operation Committee)

By bringing all the relevant stakeholders from divers sectors such as industry, research, services, public and local authorities, associations, SMEs, the CCAM Association aims to accelerate the development of new technologies and their deployment in real life with all that implicate :         

  • Road safety and efficiency
  • Inclusiviness for everyone
  • Impacting benefitially the environment and andswering the Climate Change challenges we are facing
  • Make Europe the center of CCAM technologies

  • CRUSOE – Conference of Rectors of the Universities of the European South West

The Conference of Rectors of Universities and Polytechnic Institutes of South-Western Europe (CRUSOE) is a non-profit international association formed by the Universities of Galicia, Castilla-León, Asturias, Cantabria, the Northern Region and the Central Region of Portugal.

A total of 29 higher education institutions, more than 150 nationally renowned research groups in Spain and Portugal, and almost 240,000 students spread across more than 40 campuses (4 of which have been rated as internationally renowned) constitute the strengths of the CRUSOE Network, which is configured as an alternative to traditional institutional knowledge networks and, at the same time, promotes new projects in the macro-regional space of Southwestern Europe, RESOE.

Since 2011, CRUSOE has been working to redefine a multidisciplinary space for academic collaboration and research and innovation, which contributes to territorial development and smart specialisation in Southwestern Europe.

ICTCT is an international association aiming since 1988 at building up and sharing scientific knowledge on road safety, with a particular interest for methods that do not only rely on crash data but also on non-crash events. It does so by organizing conferences, courses and opportunities for knowledge transfer, all directed to a worldwide professional audience. ICTCT approaches safety as an integral part of the wider road traffic system, envisaging all transport modes with a specific emphasis on vulnerable road users.

Members: António Lobo

ISUF is the international organization of urban form for researchers and practitioners. It was inaugurated in 1994, bringing together urban morphologists worldwide. It seeks to advance research and practice in fields concerned with the built environment. Members are drawn from several disciplines, including architecture, geography, history, sociology and town planning.

Members: Vitor Oliveira (president)

The New European Bauhaus initiative connects the European Green Deal to our daily lives and living spaces. It calls on all Europeans to imagine and build together a sustainable and inclusive future that is beautiful for our eyes, minds, and souls. 

The New European Bauhaus is a creative and transdisciplinary movement in the making!

  • It is a bridge between the world of science and technology, art and culture.
  • It is about leveraging our green and digital challenges to transform our lives for the better.
  • It is an invitation to address complex societal problems together through co-creation. 

  • Shrinking Cities International Research Network (SCiRN™) 

SCiRN™ was founded in 2004 at the Institute of Urban and Regional Development at the University of California, Berkeley, when and where scholars from various countries realised that although the decline of cities and urban regions was a common issue for urban and regional planners in different local contexts, there was little comparative research on this topic. Today, SCiRN™ is a worldwide research consortium of scholars and experts from various institutions pursuing research on shrinking cities in a global context, whose mission is to advance international understanding and promote scholarship about the topic.

Member: Sílvia Sousa

The National Road Safety Authority (ANSR), in carrying out its planning and coordination work to support the Government’s Road Safety policy, is defining the National Road Safety Strategy 2021-2030 – Vision Zero 2030, in accordance with the European Commission’s road safety policy 2021-2030, the Stockholm Declaration and the Safe System approach.

Vision Zero 2030 intends to establish a medium-term road safety policy in Portugal and define the strategic and corresponding operational goals, which shall be achieved through biennial action plans, starting in 2021 and which will cover a total period of 10 years.

Members: Sara Ferreira (as member of the Executive Council of Experts)