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.

The future is now!

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

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20/01/2025

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Challenges of Governance and Research on Second Homes in the Alps

ARL Lunch Talk #9

05 February 2025, 13:00-14:00 (CET), online

05/01/2025

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!

17/12/2024

Dortmund Conference 2025: Planning in times of multiple crises

DOKORP | 10.-12. February 2025

Registration now open!

13/12/2024

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Exploring land-management across Europe: perspectives, challenges and practices

We are inviting PhD candidates to submit papers for the 2025 ARL International Summer School, taking place 17-19 June at the campus of NMBU in Ås, Norway (30km south of Oslo).

11/12/2024

High tension in the Alps: How spatial planning can manage new land use conflicts

CIPRA's annual conference 2025
27 February 2025

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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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