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From the 12th to 19th February 2023, 12 SMUS partners/associates participated in a GIZ-DAAD Pilot Project on Urban Sustainability and Green Cities in India, organised by the GIZ Sector Project on Education. This intense networking week brought SMUS scholars and young scientists together with GIZ (German Agency for International Cooperation) projects and other development cooperation organisations.

Given the diversity and inherent complexity of the themes contained within the targets of the SDG #11, which are underlain by as well as directly concerned with “the urban”, conceiving academic work and conducting research turns out to be pivotal to enable the critical evaluation of the numerous challenges encountered throughout the various world regions when it comes to furthering urban sustainability.

Drawing on the targets and indicators of the Sustainable Development Goal #11 (SDG #11), Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable, this Call for Applications, open to all SMUS partners, is looking for innovative projects for making a difference in professional practice for urban sustainability with the aid of spatial research methods.

In this 11-part SMUS interview & podcast series Prof. Dr. Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Professor and Chair of Epistemologies of the Global South with Emphasis on Africa at the University of Bayreuth introduces viewers to the topic of decolonisation.

To give an insight into the current status of our upcoming MOOC , we are pleased to share the latest Progress Report from the Columbia Team. This MOOC focuses on the integration of ethnic and environmental inclusion in Colombia's Planning Policy. The investigation area is located in one of the most biodiverse and precipitation-rich regions of the world: The Chocó region.

In this short video, three of the SMUS post-doctoral fellows introduce themselves, share their discipline backgrounds, say a few words about their research proposals and express what it was like to have been awarded a scholarship as well as done research and lived in the city of Berlin.

Conceived by Prof. Dr. Fraya Frehse, SMUS lead partner in Brazil and Conference coordinator, with the aid of the Conference Management Team, this report offers the global SMUS community an overview of the SMUS Conference Brazil 2022. The event took place online at the University of São Paulo from Thursday September 8th, to Saturday 10th, 2022.

Get access to the Opening Ceremony and Opening Lecture, to the six keynotes, the two roundtables as well as to the Closing Lecture and Conference Closure.

Join us for the 3rd International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Spatial Methods for Urban Sustainability (SMUS conference) from 20th February to 26th February 2023 at the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee(IIT Roorkee).

"Street Architecture in Covid-19 São Paulo" is a documentary by SMUS Lead Partner Professor Fraya Frehse that was commissioned for the exhibition "Who's Next? Homelessness, Architecture and Cities" curated by Daniel Talesnik at Architekturmuseum TUM from November 2021 to February 2022.

We hereby invite you to submit an abstract for the “3rd International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Spatial Methods for Urban Sustainability” (“SMUS Conference”), which will simultaneously be the “3rd RC33 Regional Conference Asia: India”, and take place on site at the Indian Institute for Technology Roorkee (IIT Roorkee, India). From February 20th, to February 26th, 2023.

This Call has been prepared by Action 4 Speaker Prof. Dr. Fraya Frehse and Action 4 Scientific Coordinator Dr. Ignacio Castillo Ulloa. If you require any further information or clarification on this call, please write to: smus-action4-peips@usp.br. SMUS

This semester, several guest researchers are going to visit the Department of Sociology, SMUS and the CRC 1265. The guests are going to present their research in a series of Brown-Bag-Lectures.

Prof. Dr. Steve William Tonah of the Department of Sociology at the University of Ghana and SMUS advanced researcher has been awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation’s Research Prize. He will give a hybrid laureate lecture on Displacement in West Africa: An Examination of the Key Drivers and Durable Solutions, on 3rd May 2022, 18:00.

In the framework of the GCSMUS strategic action scheme, the Action 4 speaker Fraya Frehse, scientific coordinator Ignacio Castillo Ulloa and doctoral student Caio Moraes Reis are coordinating the hybrid (online and on-site) UrbanSus Seminar at the Institute of Advanced Studies (IEA) of the University of São Paulo (USP) on 13 April 2022.

SMUS Joint Teaching-Research Courses: SMUS is pleased to announce an open call for two joint teaching-research courses. The courses will be co-conceptualised and designed by staff members from two SMUS partner-institutions.

The course is embedded into a larger project that will be conducted in Germany, Botswana and Indonesia in 2022/2023.

3rd International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Spatial Methods for Urban Sustainability (SMUS Conference) & 3rd RC33 Regional Conference Asia: India, 20.‒26.02.2023, by IIT Roorkee (India).

On 26 October 2020, the Global Center of Spatial Methods for Urban Sustainability held an official hybrid Kick-off-Event at Tempelhof Airport in Berlin