Joint HES-SO / UNIGE Urban and Regional Planning

This course has been set up in partnership with the Faculty of Sciences and Society at the University of Geneva, under an agreement signed by the two institutions. For the UAS, it is a Master’s programme aimed primarily, but not exclusively, at Bachelor’s students from the Engineering and Architecture faculty.

The course allows students to acquire skills applicable to territories that are currently facing ever-more complex challenges, in demographic (increasing urbanisation), ecological (increasingly frequent environmental crises), economic (increasing scarcity of public funds and rising land prices) or institutional terms (the appearance of new layers of governance and increasing numbers of actors).

There are also democratic and social issues. These constantly changing and increasingly intricate contexts need new forms of intervention and appropriate tools, now more than ever. The complexity of urban and spatial problems needs a new generation of competent, trained professionals, who are skilled in interdisciplinary working and understand territorial issues in their entirety, in order to provide effective, long-term solutions.