On 28 and 29 April 2022, the IAK "gender and climate just cities and urban regions" met at the Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences. Prof. Petra Schneider, head of the department of Water, Environment, Construction and Safety, had hosted and organized the meeting. The event was supported by students of the department and the climate protection management of the University of Applied Sciences. The green campus of the University of Applied Sciences with its various research infrastructures provided many occasions for discussion in the group: What does it imply, especially for infrastructures, if cities want to become climate neutral and take gender aspects into account in this context?  

The international working group (IAK) "gender and climate just cities and urban regions" focused on questions of gender-oriented and climate-related urban planning on 16 and 17. Sept. 2021 in Vienna. An impulse from Eva Prangerl ("Smart City Team" of the City of Vienna) enhanced the discussion on the conflicting issues of climate neutrality, participation and gender justice in urban development. And with examples from Serbia, England, Spain, Sweden and Germany, the members of the working group shaped the discussion on gender-sensitive planning and spatial development from their own perspectives. During excursions around one of the largest urban development sites of Europe, the "Seestadt Aspern" (pic) and the inner-city 10th district of Vienna, the group discussed on site what challenges and prospects integrated urban development can offer, and how to create and maintain vibrant neighborhoods. Peter Hinterkörner („3420 aspern development AG“) outlined key issues for social coexistence and gender- and climate-responsive planning approaches in the "Seestadt".

The IAK met at the BOKU in Vienna at 16./17 September 2021: https://www.arl-net.de/blog/gender-oriented-planning-international-working-group-met-vienna

The international working group "Gender- and Climate-just Cities and Urban Regions" (leadership Prof. Doris Damyanovic (University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences Vienna) and Prof. Ulrike Sturm (Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts)) met on March 3-4, 2021 for the first time. Aim was to concretize the basic questions and goals for the working group. Over the next three years, the committee of experts from planning science and planning practice will address challenges, concepts and goals for a climate and social-just urban and regional development. In addition to the leaders, the working group has the following members: Nataša Čolić, Institute of Architecture and Urban & Spatial Planning of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia; Dr. Cédric Duchêne-Lacroix, University Basel Department of Social Sciences; Dr. Christian Dymén, TRIVEKTOR Traffic, Lund (Sweden); Inés Novella Abril, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain; Dr. Ana Pajvančić-Cizelj, University of Novi Sad, Serbia; Prof. Dr. Petra Schneider, Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences, Germany; Prof. Lenka Slavíková, IEEP, Institut pro ekonomickou a ekologickou politiku, Usti nad Labem, Czech Republic; Meike Spitzner, Wuppertal Institute, Germany; Jeff Turner, University of Leeds, England; Prof. Dr. Brigitte Wotha, BfSR - Office for Urban and Regional Development. Franziska Städler (HS Luzern) and Roswitha Weichselbaumer (BOKU Vienna) support the AK as executive members. 

Der internationale Arbeitskreis „Gender- and Climate-just Cities and Urban Regions“ unter der Leitung von Prof. Doris Damyanovic (Universität für Bodenkultur Wien) und Prof. Ulrike Sturm (Hochschule Luzern) hat sich am 3./4. März 2021 zum ersten Mal getroffen und die grundlegenden Fragen und Ziele für den Arbeitskreis konkretisiert. In den kommenden drei Jahren wird sich das Gremium aus Expertinnen und Experten der Planungswissenschaften und der Planungspraxis intensiv mit Herausforderungen, Konzepten und Zielen für eine klima- und sozial gerechte Stadt- und Regionalentwicklung auseinandersetzen. Dem Arbeitskreis gehören neben den Leiterinnen folgende Mitglieder an: Nataša Čolić, Institute of Architecture and Urban & Spatial Planning of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbien; Dr. Cédric Duchêne-Lacroix, University Basel Department of Social Sciences; Dr. Christian Dymén, TRIVEKTOR Traffic, Lund (Schweden); Inés Novella Abril, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spanien; Dr. Ana Pajvančić-Cizelj, University of Novi Sad, Serbien; Prof. Dr. Petra Schneider, Hochschule Magdeburg-Stendal, Deutschland; Prof. Lenka Slavíková, IEEP, Institut pro ekonomickou a ekologickou politiku, Usti nad Labem, Tschechien; Meike Spitzner, Wuppertal Institut, Deutschland; Jeff Turner, University of Leeds, England; Prof. Dr. Brigitte Wotha, BfSR - Büro für Stadt- und Regionalentwicklung. Franziska Städler (HS Luzern) und Roswitha Weichselbaumer (BOKU Wien) unterstützen den AK als Geschäftsführerinnen. 

Die erste Sitzung des IAK Climate-just Cities findet am 03./04.03.2021 online statt.