Most of ECTP-CEU’s policies and organisation are drafted by Working Groups who are presenting their outcomes on a regular basis to ECTP-CEU’s Executive Committee (ExCo) and General Assembly (GA).
These Working Groups are constituted by members of the ExCo, delegates to the GA and even individual members of ECTP-CEU’s member organisations. In many cases, a Working Group’s activity concludes with a publication, product or event.
Current Working Groups
Currently the following Working Groups are actively working.
New Website
Catherine Vilquin (WG chair, CUB); Martin Baloga (ZUUPS); Markus Hedorfer (ASSURB); Kent Håkull (FKP); Gerhard Vittinghoff (bAIK).
40th Anniversary
Catherine Vilquin (WG chair, CUB); Janet Askew (RTPI); Markus Hedorfer (ASSURB); Gerhard Vittinghoff (bAIK).
15th Biennale 2026
Markus Hedorfer (WG chair; ASSURB); Janet Askew (RTPI); Kent Håkull (FKP).
Newsletter & Communication
Kent Håkull (WG chair, FKP); Chantal Guillet (SFU); Markus Hedorfer (ASSURB).
Value for Money
Martin Baloga (WG chair, ZUUPS); Markus Hedorfer (ASSURB); Kent Håkull (FKP).
Professional Characterisation & Recognition
Henk van der Kamp (WG chair, IPI); Janet Askew (RTPI); Martin Baloga (ZUUPS); Dominique Lancrenon (SFU); Kent Håkull (FK); Martin Reents (SRL); Vít Řezáč (AUÚP); Virginie Rippinger (SFU). Other colleagues of our member organisations are also involved in the WG’s activities.
Restart Ukraine
Markus Hedorfer (WG co-chair, ASSURB); Lidiia Chyzhevska (WG co-chair, NSAU-APP); Luc-Émile Bouche-Florin (hon. pres.); Vincent Goodstadt (RTPI); Izabela Mironowicz (Gdańsk Tech); Michael Stein (BAK).
Past Working Groups
Several other Working Groups have already concluded their activities.
14th Biennale 2024
Markus Hedorfer (WG chair; ASSURB); Chantal Guillet (SFU); Ignacio Pemán Gavín (AETU).
Migration & Inclusion
Catherine Vilquin (WG co-chair, CUB); Markus Hedorfer (WG co-chair, ASSURB); Bjorn Bonello (KMaP); Vincent Goodstadt (RTPI); Chantal Guillet (SFU); Maíri Zífou (ΣΕΠΟΧ).
Sponsorship
Janet Askew (WG chair, RTPI); Markus Hedorfer (ASSURB); Kent Håkull (FKP); Dominque Lancrenon (SFU); Michael Stein (SRL/BAK).
Awards & Biennales
Vladan Đokić (WG co-chair, UniBG); Ignacio Pemán Gavín (WG co-chair, AETU); Brendan Allen (IPI); Richard Blyth (RTPI); Chantal Guillet (SFU); Zoran Hebar (†, UHU); Markus Hedorfer (ASSURB); Dominique Lancrenon (SFU); Vít Řezáč (AUÚP); Michael Stein (SRL/BAK).
EU Urban Agenda (UA) & Territorial Agenda (TA)
Joris Scheers (WG chair, VRP); Janet Askew (RTPI); Luc-Émile Bouche Florin (hon. pres.); Vincent Goodstadt (RTPI); Miran Gajšek (DUPPS); Vincent Goodstadt (RTPI); Chantal Guillet (SFU); Markus Hedorfer (ASSURB); Sandra Huppe (SFU); Henk van der Kamp (IPI); Laura López (UAAU); Ánna Nikoláou (ΣΕΠΟΧ); Ignacio Pemán Gavín (AETU); Géza Salamin (MUT); João Teixeira (APU); Gerhard Vittinghoff (bAIK).
Migration
This first WG on Migration was set up on 30th June 2017 at the Spring GA in Paris. It was substituted by the new WG on Migration & Inclusion established on 17th November 2018 at the Autumn GA in Brussels. Members were:
Pablo Molina Alegre (WG chair, AETU); Markus Hedorfer (ASSURB); Vincent Goodstadt (RTPI); Dominique Lancrenon (SFU).
Earlier Working Groups
Among the past Working Groups the following earlier WGs have left an important mark in ECTP-CEU’s history of the last 20 years:
- Charter of European Planning (led to the publication of the same name which since 2013 has replaced the New Charter of Athens of 1998 and 2003 has since become the ‘Constitution’ of the European planners)
- Climate Change
- European Charter on Participatory Democracy in Spatial Planning Processes
- New ICT in Planning practice
- Professional Qualification Recognition (followed by the mutual recognition procedure between Irish and French planners and whose outcomes were also an essential contribution to the 2017 Guidelines on professional competences in spatial planning; professional characterisation and recognition still constitutes one of ECTP-CEU’s core activities, and on 5th November 2023 a new phase was announced leading to the current, very active WG)
- Vision 2020 ECTP-CEU
- Young Planners (Working Group subsequently converted into a permanent project, the Young Planners Project with its annual Young Planners Workshop since 2012)