ARL International

We promote international exchange in spatial sciences and practice.

Our platform connects excellent knowledge, transferable questions, practical recommendations, and expertise from both science and practice across Europe and beyond.

This dynamic approach fosters cross-border perspectives and transdisciplinary solutions, addressing the increasingly important challenges of our time.

Latest News

06/06/2025

Shaping spatial transformation - Open call for working and transfer formats

Missions are a new instrument of the ARL, with which the work and transfer formats are aligned to topics and fields of action with high currency and relevance.

02/06/2025

New EU Regulation on Cross-Border Obstacles – But is it enough?

Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on facilitating Cross-Border Solutions – BRIDGEforEU
New position paper of the ARL

28/05/2025

Call for Abstracts: Special Issue on Nature-Based Solutions and Private Landowners

The journal Environmental Hazards invites contributions for a special issue exploring the motivations and agency of private landowners in implementing nature-based solutions (NBS)

27/05/2025

Call for Contributions: Visualising Health Equity for Urban Planning

Cities & Health, in partnership with the Academy for Territorial Development in the Leibniz Association (ARL), announces a new Special Issue dedicated to the transformative role of visualisation in tackling health inequities through urban planning.

21/05/2025

Call for Membership for the Review Committee of the ARL

Application deadline extended to May 31

The Executive Committee invites active Academy members to express their interest in participating in the Review Committee in 2025 and 2026 and to help shape the content-related work of the ARL in this important function.

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Who we are

The ARL – Academy for Territorial Development in the Leibniz Association is the central platform and professional voice of spatial science research and practice. As a social research infrastructure, we bring together recognised experts on socially relevant topics.

We provide our members and all participants in our network with the human and financial resources necessary for inter- and transdisciplinary cooperation, the synthesis of spatial knowledge and the effective transfer of results. In this way, we tackle current issues of sustainable spatial development in an integrated, multidisciplinary and practice-orientated manner.

This inter- and transdisciplinary approach characterises all our activities, events and publications with the aim of stimulating forward-thinking change and actively shaping the process of spatial transformation.

The ARL is a member of the Leibniz Assoctiation.

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