Find a research partner

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Sweden

Jonas R Bylund
Stockholm University, Department of Human Geography

http://people.su.se/~jbylu

Biodiversity and infrastructure (energy, water, etc.) in urban regions. My competence lies in qualitative planning and policy studies, as well as what might be called the geography of sociotechnical projects.

2008-01-17

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Netherlands

Karin Peters
Wageningen University
Postbus 47

www.wur.nl 

I am interested in the role of urban public spaces for inter-ethnic interactions and relations. My research focuses on inter-ethnic interactions during leisure activities. Do interactions in urban parcs change inter-ethnic relations and attitudes?

2008-01-18
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Sweden

Vania Ceccato
Royal Institute of Technology
Drotning Kristinas väg 30
+46-8-7908709

http://www.infra.kth.se/GIS/staff/ceccato/

Message: I regard 'safety' as a central dimension of contemporary debate of social sustainability in urban areas. I would like to develop a comparative study dealing with 'crime' and 'fear of crime' in a selected group of European cities. GIS and quantitative methods should underpin the methodology employed in the project but I am open to discuss similar research ideas.

2008-01-21

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Netherlands

Henk van Houtum

Radboud University

www.ru.nl/ncbr/henkvanhoutum

-Urban identity

-Transnational urban networking

-Cross-border urban cooperation

-Urban branding

-Borders and cities

-Nomansland

Sweden

Ingrid Sarlov Herlin
SLU, Deaprtment of Landscape Architecture
PO BOX 58, SE 230 53 Alnarp
004640415407

Interaction between rural and urban landscape issues such as use of grazing animals in urban areas. What are the implictaions for biodiversity, mangament, peoples perception, social values and landscape values? 

2008-01-21

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Sweden

Abdellah Abarkan
Royal Institute of Technology, school of architecture
Östermalmsgatan 26, SE 100 44 Stockholm, Sweden
+4687908468

Segregation and new urban forms, social inclusions/exclusion and physical environment. Social sustainabilty related to urban form/environment and economic devlopment/welfare.
Wish to contribute as the project coordinator my filed of research is urban morphology, member of ISUF

2008-02-21
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Belgium

Corentin Lorand
Vrij Universiteit Brusseles
35, av. gén. Dumonceau
0032(0) 477.450.419

Developping 'minority' democracy through education in urban context.
- urban policy for education
- use of cultural activity (theatre, danse,..) to empowered 'minority' and enlarge 'education' (philosophical and political background)

08 01 23
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Turkey

Derya OKTAY, PhD
Eastern Mediterranean University - Urban Research & Development Centre, Famagusta, N. Cyprus, via Mersin 10, Turkey
+90 392 6302701; +90 533 8672377

http://urdc.emu.edu.tr;  http://arch.emu.edu.tr

"A comparative study on sustainable housing patterns in the Mediterranean countries". I am a Professor of Architecture & Urban Design, and have been involved with research on similar issues (sustainability of cities and neighborhoods) for the last eleven years. I am also Director of the URDC and our board members would be interested to work in a team, focusing on these issues. I can direct the Case Study of Cyprus.
Keywords: Housing environments, situation in the urban context, local environmental characteristics, sustainable and non-sustainable patterns, Mediterranean countries (Cyprus, Turkey, Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal).

08 01 23
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Netherlands

Mark van Ostaijen
Tilburg University
331 Dickenson Road, M13 ONR Manchester
07949766307

This proposal is about transitions of society and the city and the way how (social, cultural, economic)transformations in everyday life give rise to the importance of social urban sustainability programmes.

08 01 23
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Belgium

maes
University Ghent, Centre for Sustainable Development
Poel 16, b-9000 Ghent
+32+9+264.82.13

http://cdonet.rug.ac.be/english/

Sustainable land use (care, multi-use, access, sense): multi-level, multi-actor approach in all domains and scales - framing and through cases (strategic projects)study of the implementation in practice, key-factors in process. Interested in normative debate with the field.

08 01 24

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Spain

Maria Luisa Gomez Jimenez
University of Malaga
C/ Margarita Xirgú núm. 4. 1 e
0034 952070221

I´m very interested in create a network of researcher working on legal aspects of housing for seniors in europe from a multidiciplinary approach connected with the environment and the resilience of these people to grow older in their own homes and without enough economic resources to even adapt their building or to reach the recommended level in their quality of life.
So my project is on RESILENT HOUSING FOR SENIORS IN EUROPE AN SOCIAL SERVICES APPROACH

08 01 24
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Mongolia

Gregory Cowan
Mongolian Construction Technology College
21.Microdistrict, Songinokhairkhain, Ulaanbaatar
+97695740922

www.gregory.cowan.com

Architecture and sustainable Urbanism of the Ger Khoorolol (Informal settlements) of Peri-Urban western Ulaanbaatar

08 01 24
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Sweden

Mattias Legnér
Linköping University
+46 (0)708254001

Interested in the management and development of urban cultural heritage, such as sustainable development at world heritage sites, policies and practices used.

08 01 24
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Sweden

Ingegärd Eliasson
University of Gothenburg
department of Earth Sciences, Box 460, SE 405 30 Göteborg, Sweden
+46317862832

http://www.gvc.gu.se/kontakt+/
Personal/EliassonIngegard/

We are a group of climatologists/geographers that are interested in climate change and tourism. We are looking for a potential partner with a background in social or/and economic science.

08 01 28
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Sweden

Sofia Thorsson
University of Gothenburg
department of Earth Sciences, Box 460, SE 405 30 Göteborg, Sweden

http://www.gvc.gu.se/kontakt+/
Personal/ThorssonSofia/

We are a group of climatologists/geographers that are interested in climate change and tourism. We are looking for a potential partner with a background in social or/and economic science.

08 01 28
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Kenya

Thomas N Kibutu (PhD)
Catholic University of Eastern Africa
P. O. Box 62157 Nairobi 0200 Kenya
+254-720662376

Changing livelihood strategies and environmental dynamics in a third world city, The case of Nairobi. I am teaching geography at the above named institution..

08 01 29
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Sweden

Peter Loukopoulos
VTI (Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute)
VTI, SE-581 95, Linköping, Sweden
+46-13-204187

www.vti.se/loukopoulos

My research expertise and interests lie in the application of social psychological theories to travel behaviour (and behaviour change), attitude change, mobility management, and other so-called "soft areas".  I am also interested in understanding humans' reactions to policies (e.g., tolls, neighbourhood design) from the above perspective.

08 01 30
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France

Nicolas Salmon
NOBATEK
34 Avenue de Bayonne
+33 559036129

www.nobatek.com

Nobatek is a technological centre working in the field of sustainable construction. Our activity is focused on technology transfer, R&D activity strongly market oriented.
In the field of sustainable urban planning we are working especially with small cities in rural-urban area trying to implement sustainable neighboorhoods by the application of actual knowledge in this field.
We propose our experience for a research project via demonstration activity or application of innovative principles on real cases in south western France.

08 02 05
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Cyprus

Charalambos Panayiotou
Atlantis Consulting Cyprus Ltd
I. Grypari str., off. 104, 1090 Nicosia, Cyprus
+357 22 660482

www.atlantis-consulting.eu/en

The company has expertise in the following fields:

1. Urban Air quality
2. Environmetal noise monitoring & modelling 3. Urban sustainability indicators 4. G.I.S.

We are interested in participating in research projects related to the above fields

08 02 05
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Germany

Prof. Dr. Bernhard Müller
Leibniz Institute of Ecological and Regional Development (IOER)
Weberplatz 1, 01217 Dresden, Germany
+49 351 4679 210

www.ioer.de

We represent a network of university and non-university research institutions in Germany (IOER and TU Dresden), the U.S. (Ohio State University) and Chile (Universidad de Chile) with various activities on the topic of urban resilience. In a joint teaching programme "Urban Resilience: How Do Cities React to Change?" in the summer of 2008 we will examine the existence or lack of resilience for two case cities, Dresden in Germany and Columbus, Ohio in the U.S. Thereby, we will also further develop our ongoing research on this topic. This year, we present our findings about urban resilience on international conferences such as the "World Conference on the Development of Cities" in Porto Alegre, Brasil in February 2008 and the Joint AESOP/ACSP conference in Chicago in July 2008. We are greatly interested in networking and collaboration with participants of this Urban-Net call, working in the field of resilience.

08 02 08
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Sweden

Juan Velasquez
Centre for Gender Studies/Stockholm University
106 91 Stockholm - SWEDEN
+46-8-6747305 /+46-76-2211732

http://blogs.su.se/velas/

I will conduct research on the implementation of participatory planning and gender budgets. My areas of expertise are Human geography, Urban Studies, Gender studies and Ethnology. I have been conducting two research projects on participatory planning. The first on communicative planning in deprived multicultural communities (2000-2005).  The second on participatory planning with emphasis on women's influence in the planning processes in multicultural communities (2005-2008)

08 02 08
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Cyprus

Paris A. Fokaides
RTD Talos Ltd
P.O. Box 21722, 1512 Lefkosia, Cyprus
+35722 454333

www.talos-rtd.com

RTD Talos is a Research and Development Organisation based in Cyprus, with  significant experience in EU founded through its participation in over 25 previously projects in FP5 and FP6.

We are interrested in projects related to 1. Energy efficiency and infrastructure management 2. Climate change and ecological risk management, as well as 3. Envionmental management and social behaviour

08 02 11
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Cyprus

Stratis Kanarachos
Frederick University
7, Y. Frederickou St.

Noise level measurement and noise control strategies development in schools

08 02 11
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Turkey

Deniz Altay Baykan
Bilkent University/Landscape Architecture and Urban Design  Department
Bilkent University Dept of Landscape Arch. and Urban Design-Eskisehir yolu -Ankara/ Turkey
00 90 290 18 27

www.laud.bilkent.edu.tr/

We are working as a city planners and  political scientist on gender equity, gender friendly planning and design issues in cities. Our aim is to develop design criteria  and example spatial project proposals on different scales  and levels using a participatory methodology. We are working on a continuing BM Joint Project titled  "To Protect and Promote the Human Rights of Women and Girls" This project currently applicated on  six of Turkish cities

08 02 13
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France

MATHIEU Nicole
CNRS/U Paris1/UMR LADYSS
2 rue Valette 75005 Paris
00 33 1 44 07 76 26 or 75 05

ladyss.com

We are interested in extending our EUROPOLIS network exploring the capacity for European Capital cities to face globalisation and sustainability through rethinking their rural/urban relations. We would like to find partners especially in Turkey and Romania. As Stockholm is not included in our network  Sweden could also be an interesting partner.

08 02 15
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Bulgaria

Svetla Vassileva
ICSR-Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
str. Akad.G.Bonchev bl.2, POB79, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria
003592-979-63-65

www.icsr.bas.bg

We are looking for collaboration on projects "Future Research Areas in the field of Urban Sustainability".
Until now we have experience with ecological problems solution by using artificial intelligence and also in field of reliability of the risky technical systems. The future planes are in the development of simulation models and systems for investigation of urban systems and development of the integrated systems for earth observation and resource management in conditions of natural calamity and accidents

08 02 15
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Bulgaria

Assoc.Prof.Dr.Eng Stefan Tsonev
University of Architecture,Civil Engineering and Geodesy, Department of Organisation and Economics of Construction
1, Hristo Smirnenski Blvd, 1046 Sofia, Bulgaria
35928662407 or 0888764866

www.uacg.bg

Risk Analysis for Evaluating Building Investment in Sustainable Urban Development.
Key words: building economics,urban economics,risk,simulation method.

08 02 18
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Portugal

Herculano Cachinho
Centro de Estudos Geográficos, University of Lisbon
Faculdade de Letras, Alameda da Universidade, 1600-214 Lisboa, Portugal
351 21 794 02 18

www.ceg.ul.pt

I am a geographer in the Department of Geography, Lisbon University, and my research interests have included changes in urban retailing, the role played by shopping centres in the production and experience of the post-modern metropolis and the life-styles of the new consumers.
The topic that I propose for research collaboration is related to the challenges of downtowns in the society of spectacle, and particularly how can we design planning and management programs to city centres, using retail activities and consumption as magnets, in order to change de dialectics centre/periphery on retail location, and to produce more sustainable downtowns.

08 02 22
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Portugal

Joao Lutas Craveiro
Centre for Social Ecology, National Laboratory of Civil Engineering (
Avenida do Brasil, 101, 1799 Lisboa Codex, Portugal
351-218483796

http://www-ext.lnec.pt/LNEC/DED/NESO/index.htm

Topic: Integrated urban management through multi-sector/-actor governance.
I can contribute, as an environmental sociologist (Ph.D.), to clarify the decision process about urban projects and to develop a comprehensive analysis to discriminate social actors, their interests and environmental sensibilities.

08 02 22
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Turkey

Fatime Gunes
Anadolu University
Yunus Emre Kampusu Edebiyat fakultesi Sosyoloji Bolumu Eskisehir Turkey 26470
+995367768776

www.anadolu.edu.tr

Urban sociology, Economic Sociology, Poverty, Women in Poverty, Desertification, Development 

08 02 25
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France

Catherine Charlot-Valdieu
SUDEN
353 Chemin de Peyniblou 06560 VALBONNE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS
33 4 93 40 29 30

www.suden.org

SUDEN is a European network whose aim is to gather research centres and practionners in order to set up sustainable development approaches in urban areas.
SUDEN is involved in various research projects or issues such as:
- energy retrofitting of buildings towards the factor 4 through a life cycle cost analysis,
- regeneration of neighbourghoods towards sustainability or sustainable neighbourhoods
- sustainable open spaces etc.

08 02 27
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Cyprus

Dr Pavlos Economides DVM-FRSH
EP & TA Laboratories and Veterinary Diagnostics LTD
16 Phalirou Str, 2362, Ayios Dometios, Nicosia
00357 22 444 230

Mechanisms and procedures for management, reduction, reuse, recycling of animal waste in urban areas.

08 02 27
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France

SEMMOUD Nora
University Blaise Pascal of the Tours
30 rue de Lourmel 75015 Paris
06 75 74 97 80

Urbans practices and citadinity confronted to the public action.
Cities of the Arabic World and the Mediteranean.

08 03 05
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Portugal

António B. Moniz
IET (FCT-UNL)
2829-516 Caparica, Portugal
212948305

iet.fct.unl.pt

Expertise in the field of trends of technology development related with sustainability strategies in transport systems (individual automobile, collective road transport, light rail transport, inter-modality in urban transport), and assessment on collective attitudes related with urban transport systems

08 03 05
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Portugal

Manuel Feliciano
Instituto Politécnico de Bragança
Campus de Santa Apolónia, 5300 Bragança
+351273303339

www.ipb.pt

As a team interested in urban sustainability, we have been developing several research projects in the fields of urban air quality assessment, thermal comfort in urban climate and urban noise characterization and modeling. We have developed research studies, integrating such tools as diverse measuring instruments, GIS and modeling software and social surveys. 
We look forward to develop projects within the above mentioned fields of study.

08 03 05
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Germany

Sabine Weck
ILS
Detusche Straße 5, 44139 Dortmund
+49-231-9051 184

www.ils.nrw.de

Research Interest: Migration, Social stability, deprived neighbourhoods, social exclusion, shrinking cities. We are interested in a transnational co-operation on the social and spatial mobility of persons with a migrant background, "housing biografies" of migrants, clustering of housing mobility types, policy recommendations for dealing with highly ethnically or socially segregated neighbourhoods.

08 03 05
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Cyprus

Despo Kassinos
University of Cyprus
75, Kallipoleos - 1678 Nicosia - Cyprus
+35722892275

Water and Wastewater Treatment, Xenobiotics in the Water Cycle

08 03 06
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France

Martouzet
Université de Tours
35 allée F. de Lesseps 37200 TOURS - FRANCE
00 33 247 36 14 55 or 14 66

- urban planning
- affective relationship to the city
- affect and space or place
- reason/cognition/affect
- phenomenology
- psychologist approaches of the city

08 03 14
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Turkey

Ozge Ercoskun
Gazi University
Gazi Uni. Dept.of Urban&Regional Pl. Ankara-TURKEY
+903122317400

We are looking for partners for our project about "small town model studies for self sufficiency in energy and food" for the energy efficiency topic of the call.

08 03 14
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Turkey

Dr. Hasan Soyler
Inonu University Business Administration Faculty Econometric Department
Inonu University Business Administration Faculty Econometric Department Malatya/TURKEY
90 422 3410010-4316

I am interested in sustainable development, regional development and system dynamics modelling. I have a a research project which name is "Projection of Socio-Economic Development of TRB1 Cities (Malatya, Elazig, Bingol and Tunceli) Which Supported EU Regional Development Programme by Using System Dynamics". I am interested in participating in research projects related to fields
Keywords: sustainable development, urban socio-economic development, socio-economic modelling

08 03 14
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Netherlands

Prof. R. Kloosterman and Dr. M Lavanga
Universiteit van Amsterdam (UvA) - Amsterdam institute for Metropolitan and International Development Studies (AMIDSt)
Nieuwe Prinsengracht 130 - 1018 VZ Amsterdam - The Netherlands
+31 (0)20 525 1493

www.fmg.uva.nl/amidst/

We are a team of social scientists interested in the relationship between space and economy; in particular we are doing researches on CULTURAL INDUSTRIES and urban economies with a focus is on the spatial patterns of cultural industries and their interrelationship with social networks. With our research activities we would like to contribute to a better understanding of how advanced urban economies can be successful in sustaining high living standards as well as in creating economic opportunities for their citizens. We would like to participate to the Urban-Net call with a pre-research proposal on cultural industries and urban sustainability. We are looking for partners interested in exploring the role and contribution of cultural industries to a sustainable urban development - the linkages between the cultural dimension of sustainability and the economic, social or environmental ones.

08 03 14
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Netherlands

Erik van Slobbe
Wageningen University and Research

0627060128

www.wur.nl

Green public zones in urban areas fullfill many functions. Social meeting space, recreation, water retention, temperature island mitigation, culture...etc.
Our contribution is expertise on climate adaptation and water management. We also bring in case studies.

08 03 14
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Turkey

Ayse Esmeray Yogun Erçen
Cukurova University (Not Uni-Member)
Adana/Balcali
+905326763784

I had just completed my doctoral thesis about "Women Glass Ceiling Strategies". I want to keep my reserach sprit on women especially working women's attitudes, communication difference, organizational commitment etc.. I have just planned to make a new comparative study on working women's family-life balance response co-with any researcher from Sweden.

08 03 20
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Turkey

Assist. Prof. Dr. Mahmut Yildirim Oral
Dokuz Eylül University, Faculty of architecture, Department of City and Regional Planning
Dokuz Eylül University, Faculty of architecture, Dogus cad. No:209 Tinaztepe-Buca-Izmir-Turkey
+902324128434

Basic issues of designing infrastructural systems for industrial clusters.
Key words: Industry, clustering, physical infrastructure, competitiveness, global economy.

08 03 20
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Turkey

Hilmi Evren Erdin
Dokuz Eylül University, Faculty of architecture, Department of City and Regional Planning
Dokuz Eylül University, Faculty of architecture, Dogus cad. No:209 Tinaztepe-Buca-Izmir-Turkey
+902324128443

Basic issues of designing infrastructural systems for industrial clusters.
Key words: Industry, clustering, physical infrastructure, competitiveness, global economy.

08 03 20
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Turkey

Dr. Neslihan Karatas
Dokuz Eylül University, Faculty of architecture, Department of City and Regional Planning
Dokuz Eylül University, Faculty of architecture, Dogus cad. No:209 Tinaztepe-Buca-Izmir-Turkey
+902324128471

Basic issues of designing infrastructural systems for industrial clusters.
Key words: Industry, clustering, physical infrastructure, competitiveness, global economy.

08 03 20
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Netherlands

Femke Hoekstra
ETC Urban Agriculture
Leusden/ The Netherlands
+31 33 432 60 00

http://www.etc-urbanagriculture.org/ and http://www.ruaf.org
ETC Urban Agriculture is an advisory group and resource centre in the field of Urban Agriculture and Food Security. We are looking for research partners who are interested to study Urban Food Systems (analysis and planning ) of cities worldwide and identify best practices to implement such a strategy on city or community level.

08 03 20
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Turkey

Prof.Dr. Kemal Sezen
Uludag University
Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Gorukle Campus Bursa - TURKEY 16059
+90 224 442 89 40 - 41113

http://homepage.uludag.edu.tr/~kemal/

My research interests include operations research, production management and simulation models. My current research interests are innovation, regional development and system dynamics.
We formed a project team in order to work on the keywords below:
Keywords: Learning region, innovation system, regional development and planning, sustainability of regional competitiveness.

08 03 20
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Cyprus

Dr. Stratos Stylianidis
GeoImaging Ltd.
Georgios Seferis 6, 1076 Nicosia, Cyprus
+357-22-447770

www.geoimaging.com.cy

The use of Geographical Information Systems and Spatial Data Infrastructures in urban & regional planning. GeoImaging is very much interested in GIS issues. We have both expertise in research and development.

08 03 25
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Bulgaria

Dragomir Manoilov
UCTM
Bulgaria,Sofia, bul"Kiril i Metodi" 8

http://www.uctm.edu/

Environmental Management, By Using Biological Species. We use Bees and Their products for Raceiving Information about Environmental Contamination. Building Monitoring Sistem, Data Base for screening Air, Soil and Watel en e.g.

08 04 04
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Romania

Vera MARIN
UAUIM - University of Architecture and Urban Planning and ATU - Association for Urban Transition
18-20, academiei street
0040723577595

www.atu.org.ro

national and local housing policies and urban regeneration potential projects in housing estates (grands ensembles) built during the communist regime in East European countries.
contribution to the housing policies analysis tools, and with Romanian case studies.

08 04 04
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Turkey

Hatice Kurtulus
Mugla University
Fen Edebiyat fakultesi, Sosyoloji Bolumu, Kotekli-Mugla, 48000 Turkey
90 0538 614 93 33

We are the group of urban scientists, focus on the reletion between new migration waves to the urban areas, spaces of urban poverty and urban sustainability.We are preparing a project proposal for Urban-Net 2008 as a project coordinator and looking for partners from France, Nadherlands and Sweden where some of the receiving countries of this new migration waves and facing with more complex socio-spatial problems in urban sustainabilty. Our proposal will include five migrant neighbourhoods of five cities in different urban scale, Istanbul, Nicosia, Stockholm, Amsterdam and Barselona. Please contact to us until 7th of April if you are interested in the poroject as a partner.

08 04 04
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Portugal

Manuel Duarte Pinheiro
DECivil/IST
Av. Rovisco Pais
+351934658451

www.lidera.info

The research will be in urban architecture mainly in sustainable assessament and certification in search of regenerative approachs. To test and adjust and approach to to assess and suport eco design. The project will involve also Profº Manuel Correia Guedes.

08 04 04
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Bulgaria

Prof.Dr.Rangel Gyurov
New Bulgarian University,Department of Earth and Environmental Studies with Natural Hazards and Risk Management
21 Montevideo str.,Sofia,Bulgaria
00359 2 8110606

www.nbu.bg

The team of the department and Laboratory is inerested in integated development planning and natural hazards, natural hazard risk reduction, incorporating natural hazard into planning and decision-making in the public sector.

08 04 07
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