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Developing Energy-Efficient Urban Fabric in the Tehran-Karaj Region

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Conference “Future Megacities in Balance”, October 11-13, 2010

Dear Madam,
Dear Sir,
We would like to draw your attention to the international Conference “Future Megacities in Balance” by the German federal Ministry of Housing and Urban Development (October 11-13, 2010) to be held in Essen, the European Capital of Culture 2010. You can find all information on the conference at:
http://www.emerging-megacities.de/seiten/tagung/startseite/startseite-en.aspx.
Online registration for the conference is [...]

German Project Delegation visits Teheran and Hashtgerd New Town

A German delegation, mainly consisting of representitives from the disciplines Urban Planning and Design, Landscape Planning and Environmental Assessment, accompanied by Prof. Dr. R. Schäfer as the Project Coordinator on German side, is going to visit Teheran and Hashtgerd New Town from May 18th. - May 20th., 2010. The delegation will meet high ranking Iranian authorities in order [...]

Special DAAD Research & Study Scholarships on Megacities Research in “Young Cities” Project at TU Berlin esp. for Iranian Applicants

Program “Study and Research Scholarships of Today for the Megacities of Tomorrow”
(Application Deadline on the 30h of September 2010).
For further information also visit:
http://www.daad.de/deutschland/foerderung/ausschreibungen/13750.de.html
Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin, Berlin Institute of Technology) offers highly‐qualified senior
scientists, postdocs, and senior experts from Iran as well as from Morocco, Vietnam, India, China,
Peru, South Africa or Ethiopia the opportunity to [...]

20. Symposium für thermische Solarenergie Bad Staffelstein, 05. - 07. Mai 2010

Prof. Dr. Nytsch-Geusen vom Fachgebiet Versorgungstechnik und Versorgungsplanung der Universität der Künste Berlin und Verantwortlicher für diesen Bereich im Projekt Young Cities hält im Rahmen des 20. Symposiums für thermische Solarenergie in Bad Staffelstein vom 05. - 07. Mai einen Vortrag unter dem Titel “Konzeption und Planung solarunterstützter Energieversorgungssysteme für New Towns im Iran”. Nähere Informationen unter [...]

Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers April, 14th - 18th 2010

Two delegates of the Young Cities Project have presented the present research results of the project in the context of the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, which took place in Washington D.C. from April, 14th - April 18th 2010. Find more on http://www.aag.org/annualmeetings/2010/index.htm

Dec. 18.-22 2009: German Delegation visits Hashtgerd

Five German Decision-Makers from different Dimensions of the Project visited Hashtgerd shortly before the Christmas Break for a Conference with the Iranian partners in order to set the course of the Young Cities Project for 2010. Beside the Conference the delegation members had the opportunity to get a picture of the progression of the New [...]

Dec. 03, 2009: Jan Grunwald visits New Quality Building field

Jan Grunwald, research associate at the Department Design and Structure at the Technische Universität Berlin, just visited the New Quality Pilot Project, which is currently under construction in Hashtgerd and will approximately be finished in March, 2010. In several dialogues the responsible Iranian engineers overviewed the progression of the construction and discussed questions of the [...]

Low Carbon Cities | 45th ISOCARP International Congress | Porto - Portugal, 18-22 October 2009

In the framework of the International ISOCARP congress in Porto from 18th to 22th Oct. 2009, Sebastian Seelig, research associate at the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the Technische Universität Berlin presents the experiences of Low Carbon Housing in Hashtgerd within the Young Cities Project.
To get to the abstract please follow the link:
http://www.isocarp.net/Data/case_studies/1480.pdf

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6th BMBF Forum for Sustainability - One Step Further 9 - 10 September 2009, Hamburg

Hamburg, 09/09/09. Prof. Dr. Schäfer introduced the Young Cities Research Project to the international audience at the conference „Research for Sustainability – One Step Further“ at the Prototyp Museum Hamburg. The aim of the conference was to strengthen the collaboration of politics, science and industry for the generation of sustainable innovation. 400 international experts discussed [...]

53rd IFHP World Congress

The 53rd International Federation for Housing and Planning World Congress was held 6–9 September 2009 in Berlin on the theme ‘Urban Technologies for Urban Sustainability: Climate Change and Energy Efficiency’. In the context of the congress Dr. Farshad Nasrollahi, research associate in the field of building technology and design at the Technische Universität Berlin contributed [...]

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