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25 urban institutes from across five continents participated in the Global Urban Network Workshop. The next meeting will be next February in Abu Dhabi, during Habitat World Urban Forum.

Martha Delgado Peralta, Undersecretary for Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights at the Secretariat of Foreign Affairs of the United Mexican States, will be at Sciences Po on 13 November. She is going to discuss about Mexico’s contribution towards building prosperous, inclusive and tolerant cities.

Lucas A. Cividanes and Clément Da Cruz were awarded the Jury Prize at the 2019 UrbanPlanners International Forum for their study of urban agriculture policies in São Paulo. For nearly two months, the two students conducted field visits and more than 20 interviews with key actors of Urban agriculture. They focused specifically on the analysis of the "Ligue os Pontos" policy, which, since 2016, has sought to engage the metropolis into a transition towards sustainable, resilient and circular urban development.

The new Master of Government course will open in 2020. The course aims to improve the quality of life in European cities. The master's objectives are to make Europe's cities better places to live.

Two alumni, one student from the UrbanSchool, presented the school programmes during a live interview. The interview took place on Tuesday 2 November 2021.

Hugo Ribadeau Dumas graduated from Sciences Po in 2013. He now works as an advisor to the Government of India. He has worked in India, Bangladesh and Afghanistan in the last 6 years.

Students in second year of the MASTER IN REGIONAL AND URBAN STRATEGY study trip to Madrid. Aim is to understand evolving forms of urban governance and policy-making.

Governing the Large Metropolis is a study trip to Mexico City. The main goal of the trip is to collect data for a collective report on governance dynamics of a large metropolis.

The Geneva Challenge is an international competition for graduate students. Annaechtor, Hillary Birch, Maria Giorda and Natalie Boychuk from Columbia University have been selected among the finalists. They have developed a formal proposal for an urban health intervention in Accra.

Biodiversity is seen as a necessary element in the construction of sustainable and resilient cities. We asked ourselves the question of the acceptability of this biodiversity in the emergence of the metropolis. We have built a cross analysis of four case studies in four French metropolises: Bordeaux, Montpellier, Nantes and Strasbourg. We identified six levers of acceptability: The culture of nature, the communication, the participative democracy, the law, the economy and the administrative organization.

LucianoVandelli was one of the main drivers, if not the main driver, in the legal profession. He wrote the first systematic work on the system of the Spanish autonomous communities. He was extremely familiar with the French system.

How major events transform cities sustainably? The cases of the Universal.Exhibition in 2015 in Milan and the Olympic Games Paris 2024 are discussed.

The project concerned the implementation of an urban development project on the Clos Saint-Louis. The 130 ha land is located on the banks of the Seine on thecommune of Dammarie-les-Lys. The former industrial site has for several years been the subject of a reflection on the possible development of a new district.

The Clichy-Batignolles ecodistrict is one of five eco-neighbourhoods in France. The aim is to provide a diagnosis of the practices of the neighbourhood and improve the consideration of the real needs of the inhabitants.

The project aims to identify places with a high mobility potential -particularly for drive-sharing. The hubs will be activated at different times of the day, in order to offer relevant services that correspond with the displacement loops of inhabitants.

Group of four students carried out a study to analyse the existing practices and the operational application of an OFS carried out by a real estate developer. The project is based on more than fifty benchmarks and interviews conducted in several countries around the world with leading actors.

After a year and a half or two years of work, the students of the Masters of Regional and Urban Strategy, Governing the Large Metropolis and the UrbanPlanning programme graduated on 28 June.

The European Commission (DG Regio) launched a call forexpressions of interest, or Pilot Action, on the Industrial Transition. Centre-Val de Loire, Grand Est and Hauts-de-France regions have been selected for support and a framework for reflection. The Industrial Transition covers issues related to the preparation of future jobs.

The project explores the concept of “collaborative city’s factory” The aim is to clarify the theoretical and operational issues involved in the collective design of the urban project.

The study is part of the territory’s attractiveness policy, including the creation of the “Le Havre Normandie Campus’. Aiming to highlight existing or remaining links between higher education, research and the economic world.

The study was based on extensive literature review, interviews in Paris and in the regions, and two in-depth case studies on the territory of Dunkirk, and the union Energies Vienne.

The aim of a study trip is to allow students to learn to observe places, to ask questions that promote exchange, and to analyze data in a comparative and critical manner. The entry point of this trip was based on a reflection that is dear to the students: to question the tension between Montpellier and Sète.

The students carried out a study on citizen participation in large cities, conurbations and metropolises. The report stresses the need to clarify the rules of non-regulatory participation.

Group project: Conception of a 5-day study trip to the United Kingdom on the topic "After Brexit: The United Kingdom facing its territorial fractures" The five-day trip took place in London, Manchester and Stoke-on-Trent.