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

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.

19/05/2025

Difference and Belonging: Indigenous and Autochthonous National Minorities in Europe's Transforming Region

November 12-14, 2025, Leipzig/Germany
The Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography (IfL), in partnership with the Institute of Geography at the University of Leipzig, the Sorbian Institute in Bautzen, and the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg, invites Papers for the international conference "Difference and Belonging: Indigenous and Autochthonous National Minorities in Europe's Transforming Regions”

24/04/2025

The Future is Now! Shaping the Socio-Ecological Transformation – Contribution to the Poster Exhibition of the ARL Congress 2025

On 27 and 28 March, the international ARL Forum Gender and Spatial Transformation had the opportunity to contribute to the poster exhibition at the ARL Congress 2025 'The Future is Now! Shaping the Socio-Ecological Transformation' at the Leopoldina in Halle (Saale).

24/04/2025

The Urban Crisis of Care and Social Reproduction – Recap of our workshop in Hannover

On 17 and 18 February 2025, members of the ARL International Forum Gender and Spatial Transformation convened at the ARL headquarters in Hanover for an insightful two-day workshop.

08/04/2025

The Winners of the Photo Contest 2025 "Future Now!"

For the ARL Photo Contest 2025, we invited participants to capture the socio-ecological transformation through images.

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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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