Reconstruction of Ukraine: Public lecture series started

Professor Dr. Detlef Kurth from the Chair of Urban Planning at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern (TUK) is coordinating a DAAD project supporting the reconstruction of Ukraine in cooperation with the universities of applied scienes in Berlin, Cottbus and Lübeck. The central hub is the digital platform "panforukraine", which bundles teaching offers on topics of reconstruction and integrated urban development. A lecture series on integrated urban development has just been launched. It is open to Ukrainian universities and all other interested parties. 

The lectures on "Integrated urban development strategies" take place every Tuesday from 5 to 7 p.m. via the video conferencing tool Webex.

Access is through this link:
b-tu.webex.com/b-tu-en/j.php

A program overview can be found at:
www.panforukraine.de/2022/10/lecture-series-on-integrated-urban-development-strategies/

In addition, recordings of past events can be accessed on demand via the panforukraine website.

Background
In 2017, Ukraine had translated the goals of the EU's Leipzig Charter 2020 into its own decentralized planning system with the White Paper "Urban Development." The war of aggression of Russia against Ukraine is not only directed against the independent and democratic Ukraine, but also against the goals of the EU Leipzig Charter: the European city as a place of democracy, pluralism, rationalism, subsidiarity, orientation towards the common good, as well as public space as a place of exchange, free residence and also protest.

These topics will be deepened in the new teaching formats in order to enable a sustainable reconstruction in freedom. The digital learning platform set up for this purpose is intended to help maintain and network teaching at Ukrainian universities and to deepen it thematically in relation to the reconstruction of destroyed cities.

In addition, several scholarships have been awarded through the project to Ukrainian students, doctoral candidates and lecturers who are in economic need due to the consequences of the war and internal displacement. Ukrainian researchers are also actively involved in the work.

Partner universities in Ukraine are the National Polytechnic University in Lviv, the National Yuri Fedkovych University in Chernivtsi, the Kyiv National University of Building Construction Architecture, the University in Poltava and the University in Odessa.

The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) is funding the project with more than 200,000 euros as part of an immediate "Ukraine digital" program.

Questions can be directed to:

Professor Dr. Detlef Kurth
Lehrgebiet Stadtplanung
Tel.: 0631 205-4665
E-Mail: Detlef.Kurth(at)ru.uni-kl.de