‘Urban Regulations and Political Memory: Towards Understanding Spatio-Temporal Aspects of Urban Development PLUS’ is an international, interdisciplinary, educational and research project organised by four 4EU+ member universities: University of Warsaw, University of Milan, Charles University, Sorbonne University. Its element is the course, which is the 4EU+ joint educational offer during the academic year 2023/2024. The project was awarded in the SEED4EU+ 2023 call.

The first edition of the course was conducted in 2021/2022, the second in 2022/2023. Read more: https://unread.wpia.uw.edu.pl/, https://unread2022.wpia.uw.edu.pl/.

Key topics of the UNREAD+ course are the driving forces of urban changes, development of smart cities and interdisciplinary methodologies of urban studies. The course is developed as part of an educational project which addresses changes in the conditions of the urban development of smart cities in Poland, Italy and Czechia, according to three dimensions: past (history), present (law) and future (geography). Emphasis is put on integrated and interdisciplinary approach in order to help students understand the complexity of new urban centres in which real estate development must coexist with the protection of the environment and with the history and heritage of the local community.

The course included 35 online didactic hours (19 hours of lectures, 16 hours of workshops).

Assessment methods and conditions for obtaining credit:

Group work: producing an essay and delivering a presentation (each student group has to comprise participants from different universities). Essays will be presented at a face-to-face conference (2 days) held at the University of Milan in March 2024. The best student essays could be published on the course communication platform / website or in co-authorship with the tutor in journals.

ECTS recognition is done at the home university and faculty.

ECTS credits at Charles University: Faculty of Law 4, Faculty of Science 5.

ECTS credits at University of Milan: 3

ECTS credits at University of Warsaw: Faculty of Law 8, Faculty of History 4, Faculty of Geography 8

Application and selection:

The students will be selected based on their CV and motivation letter. The deadline for sending the documents is 5 October 2023. The CV and the motivation letter should be sent as a single PDF document to unread@wpia.uw.edu.pl. The file’s name should contain the applicant’s name (surname_name.pdf), and the subject of the email should be “UNREAD+ recruitment”. The motivation letter should indicate the students’ objectives and motivations for taking the course. The motivation letter should not exceed 1,000 characters.