The European School of Urbanism and Architecture is a pilot curriculum for integrated urban and architectural study funded by the European Union's Leonardo da Vinci programme in vocational education and training.   It has been developed to address the most pressing challenges of European and global practice today.
 
Its thirteen partners in seven countries can use the elements of the curriculum as modular units of their own existing programmes within a cooperative network, or establish a quasi-independent full-degree programme.
 

The programme features:

*  The latest advances in best practice on sustainability and climate change
*  integrated study of urbanism with architecture
*  inter-disciplinary education
*  immersive, project-based learning
*  exchange studies across national boundaries
*  emphasis on local and historical resources as a basis of sustainable
    economics
*  first-hand studies of local architectural, urban and cultural histories
*  the economic and cultural value of local identity and tradition
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From the workshop in Berlin
The student exercise focused on urban design principles, with both a series of lectures and an urban design exercise for a site close to the new Central Railway Station in Berlin.   Read more

From the workshop in Norway
Based on the ESUA curriculum and training methodology hypothesis, this test module focused on the problems and possibilities in real-life situations by studying ongoing development and building projects in Norway, using  wood as a sustainable building material.    Read more
 
From the charrette in Oslo
The purpose of the workshop was to test how a group of students can be involved in a live planning charrette in order to learn to work as a team, in collaboration with public and local stakeholders, and in order to arrive at one collective proposal within a limited time-span.   Read more
 

Students and instructor at the charrette in Oslo - january 2008
  
From the workshop in Romania
The test course had 13 international ESUA partner representatives and 18 Romanian and Norwegain students participating. The test course was finalised with a study trip of Transilvania to relate the project to restoration crafts training and cultural heritage.   Read more

From the workshop in Italy
From the 4^th – 11^th of May 2007 the European School of Urbanism and Architecture (ESUA) held a workshop on built heritage and stone architecture in Italy.   Read more

Students doing research in Rome may 2007