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

22/11/2024

Shaping the Future of Rural Europe: Small and Medium-Sized Towns in Focus

The ARL Brussels Talk focuses on the future direction of European funding programs

20/11/2024

Wanted: Your visions of future and transformation

"The Future is Now!”

Take part in the ARL photo competition 2025 and surprise us with your view of a sustainable future!

19/11/2024

Innovative approaches for services of general interest in rural areas - What Germany can learn from the experiences of other European countries

The results brochure of the research project InDaLE has now also been published in English.

15/11/2024

And the winners of the Video Challenge 2024 “Why It Matters – In 120 seconds!" are...

You will be impressed by the relevance of the content and the professional quality of the videos – definitely worth watching!

01/11/2024

How do European Small Towns Face Metropolitan Development?

ARL Lunch Talk #8

25 November 2024, 13:00-14:00 (CET), online

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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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