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Every year, STU Master’s students make their first study trip to a French city. The students carry out a collective survey on the issues of the visited territory. Nantes has distinguished itself over the past twenty years by an urban action widely recognized.

Urban planning students went to Genoa from 25 to 29may, 2021. The trip focused on the strategic orientations of the city in the face of thedecline of the industrial port.

Juliette Hazard and Thaïs Sarrebourse d'Audeville are currently cycling around France as part of their gap year. They met in the master’s degree and discovered that they share values and interests.

The Palladio Foundation and the Agorize open innovation platform launched the "Make the City Challenge" last September. Students from all over France, from all curricula and disciplines were invited to “imagine cities and places of life that are more human, inclusive, livable, environmentally friendly and sustainable" The team of our students "Dans ta rue" won this first edition of the challenge.

Marion Waller, graduate of the master Governing the Large Metropolis, is currently Advisor to the Mayor of Paris. She previously worked as advisor to the deputy mayor of Paris in charge of urban planning and architecture.

The Ruhr is an industrial and urban space located in the Land of North Rhine-Westphalia, in the west of Germany. The challenges of this trip were to understand the evolution of the IBA model.

Naomi Fagla-Medegan received two awards for her association Gbobètô. She received the Social and Humanitarian Trophy of THE _Trophées des Français de l’étranger_ 2021. She also received the 1st _Terre de Femmes_ Prize 2021.

First year students of the master Governing the Large Metropolis went to South Korea. The trip was to question the dimension of the ‘smart city’

The group project is at the heart of the pedagogy of all the Urban School's Masters programmes. Students respond to a real territorial issue posed by a public, private or associative organization. Each project concludes with a presentation of the final results to the partner.

Students of the masters of Regional and Urban Strategy, Governing EcologicalTransitions in European Cities and Urban Planning Programme travel to Europe. The trips are a highlight of the course, for the richness of the input and the creation of links between students.

Pranav Kuttaiah is one of the 15 winners of the 2020 Palladio Scholarship. He is a second-year student of the Master Governing the Large Metropolis. Pranav will join the University of California, Berkeley, to complete a 5-year PhD.

The Urban School of Sciences Po and the Urban Planning Department at the UCLA Luskin School have launched a new dual master’s degree in urban planning. The new degree builds on the corestrengths of both universities. The program consists of two years, the first at UCLA and the second at Sciences Po.

Our dean Patrick Le Galès and Fatoumata Diallo, an alumna, present our school and our courses. Find out more about the admissions process at our admissions page.

The Institut Paris Région has just published the study carried out by our students as part of a capstone. The purpose of this study is to provide an overview of the rental stock in four countries and the role of private institutional investors.

The 2020 edition will be held on-line via the Seekube platform from 14 to 16 October. The Career fair is a unique opportunity for students to: Get information on a wide range of companies, their values, the opportunities they offer.

Four students from Sciences Po’sMaster in Regional and Urban Strategy have recently come to the end of a GROUP project with the Ihédate. The aim of the group project was to study strategies of ecological governance in Germany.

Inaugural lecture was held on 10 September on the theme "Cities, climate crisis and ecological transition" Swedish historian and professor of environmental History, spoke on the subject.

Inaugural Lecture of Sciences Po’s Urban School on the theme "Cities, Climate Crisis and Ecological Transition" 10 September, from 5 pm to 6:30 pm. Watch live here.

Camille Gaumont is the Cycling Project Manager at Plaine Commune, a public institution representing 9 communes to the north of Paris. She is the cycling lead for the entire area, which is half the size of Paris and home to 430,000 inhabitants.

This year’s group projects are now finalised. The aim is to create a guide of recommendations for urban project management. The West of the Vosges is a rural territory with a remarkable landscape and cultural identity.

Mathilde Fraisse, student at the Urban planning programme, won first Carbuncleprize for her paper. An awards ceremony was held via videoconference on May 20 and was followed by a webinar on sustainable cities in France and Turkey.

This paper aims to gain an overview on how smart city is being interpreted and embedded in China, through the example of Huawei and Alibaba’s smart city implementations in Shenzhen and Hangzhou. It examines the emergence of the “Brain-Nerves” model of smart urban governance in Chinese cities, as well as the practices, processes and outcomes that are currently unfolding on the ground.

The Urban School is launching its annual campaign to identify "group projects" The campaign is aimed at deciphering the crisis linked to the health crisis in France.