International activities » European Activities

FNAU is involved into European networks through the agencies of the network and through its own activities.
  • Many agencies have developed a technical cooperation with European bodies, universities and research departments working into the field of urban planning, development and management.
  • Programs such as Interreg, Urbact or The Urban Forum have offered many opportunities to involve themselves within various city networks.
  • In the recent years, the agencies working over border zones (Strasbourg, Lille, Bayonne, etc.) have also developed several "Eurodistricts projects" with help from EU and from the French interministerial French Government "cross-border operational organisation" (MOT).

FNAU has organized in 1995 the first Biennial of Towns and Town Planners in Europe in Lyon, on the topic of the sustainable development.

A Permanent International Working Party (PIWP) was then set up in order to prepare and manage the five following biennials :

Budapest :
on the topic of"Making Places" (the urban public spaces), with        Hungary, 2007
the Hungarian Town Planners Association
Copenhagen :
on the topic of "City Living, living city", with the Danish Association of Town Planners (AVNBY).		 Denmark, 2005
Barcelona :
on the topic of the urban networks, with the Catalonian Association of Town Planners (ACTU) and the Spanish Town Planners Association (AETU),		 Spain, 2003
Rotterdam :
on the topic of the urban culture, with the Dutch Town Planners Association (NIROV)		 Netherlands, 2001
Herne :
with the German Association of Town Planners (SRL)		 Germany, 1999
Rome :
with the National Institute of Town Planners (INU)		 Italy, 1997

NEXT BIENNIAL


The 8th Biennial will be held in Nancy (France) on October, 2009, on the topic of "Which place for the mid-sized towns in Europe ?", with the FNAU network.