Mestrado PRU - UA

1. Staff
Artur Rosa Pires (arp@ua.pt)
Eduardo Anselmo Castro (ecastro@ua.pt)
Jorge Carvalho (jcarvalho@ua.pt)
José Manuel Martins (jmm@ua.pt)
Elisabete Figueiredo (elisa@ua.pt)
Carlos Rodrigues (cjose@ua.pt)
Paulo Silva (paulosilva@ua.pt)
José Carlos Mota (jcmota@ua.pt)
João Marques (jjmarques@ua.pt)
Gonçalo Santinha (g.santinha@ua.pt)
João Margalha (jmargalhe@ua.pt)
Frederico Moura Sá (fredericomsa@ua.pt)
Rui Loza (f774@ua.pt)
International networks
The Aveiro Urban and Regional Planning school is a
founding member of AESOP- Association of Europe-
an Schools of Planning (http://www.aesop-
planning.com/). It has a long experience in promo-
ting the international exchange of students with
more than a dozen of European higher education
instiotutions, namely in the Framework of
ERASMUS Programme.
MASTER IN
URBAN AND
REGIONAL
PLANNING Contacts
Responsible of the MSc
Dr. José Manuel Martins (email jmm@ua.pt e
telefone 234 372 590)
Administrative Support Mr. Pedro Rui Jesus (email
pedro.rui@ua.pt and tlf. 234 372 489)

2. The University of Aveiro has a long tradition (20 years) in urban and regional planning related educa-
tion, being, actually, a pioneer in Portugal. It offers a MSc in Urban and Regional Planning built on this
long tradition and the pioneering role.
The MSc has been created having as basis, on the one hand, the changes in the degree in Urban and
Regional Planning provoked by the Bologna process, and, on the other hand, the creation of a degree in
Public Administration at the Department of Social, Law and Political Sciences, with a minor in Spatial
Planning. The MSc aims to provide more specialised education to those students who have a degree in
spatial planning related domains, as well as to those who want to increase their competences in the fiels
of spatial planning.
Study Progamme
Course Structure
1 year | 1 semester a.c. t | tp | p ects
Degree type Master social, economic and political dimensions, as well Urban Forms PRU 0|4|0 6
Programme running since 2007/08 as to intervene upon the dynamics of territorial Strategic Territorial Planning PRU 0|0|0 6
Duration 2 years change. Students will gain competences in: Environmental Systems and Sustainability PRU 0|0|0 6
Scientific area Urban and Regional Planning - identifying the needs of the present and future Planning Support Techniques PRU 0|3|0 6
Departament(s) Department of Social, Legal and communities, recognising the opportunities, the Option I 0|3|0 6
Political Sciences determinants, the challenges and the effects of Regional and Local Administration and Power Relations CS 0|0|0 6
Taught at Campus Universitário de Santiago, following given courses of action and/or develop- Development and Integrated Planning of Tourist Destinations 0|4|0 6
Aveiro ment trajectories; Economics and Territory PRU 0|0|0 6
Number of Vacancies 45 - adopting and/or building territorial organization Public Urban Space PRU 0|0|0 6
Subscriptions From 19th July to 30th July models and development strategies supporting Biophysical Structure and Environment PRU 0|0|0 6
Observations Reg. nº: R/B - Cr 49/2007 policy options and mirroring a diversity of perspec- Europeanization of Political and Administrative Systems CP 0|3|0 6
Schedule thursdays and fridays, allowing to do so tives and interests; History of Urbanism PRU 0|0|0 6
on a weekly day available at 50% - partricipating in multicultural debates on ideas, Sociology and Economics of Sustainable Development CS 0|3|0 6
Annual Fee 949 Euros concepts, principles and development models; Tourism and Economic Development E 0|4|0 6
Entrance Fee 10 Euros - assimilating and valuing the ethics of the 1 year | 2 semester
planning profession. Mobility Planning PRU 0|3|0 6
Environment and Development Strategies PRU 0|3|0 6
Objectives Condições de acesso Soci-Economic and Territorial Dynamics PRU 0|4|0 6
Urban Planning PRU 0|0|0 6
In general terms, the MSc aims to provide students Applicants are holders of a Graduation Degree in Planning Systems and Policies PRU 0|0|0 6
with a spatial planning culture comprising the Spatial Planning, Public Administration, Geogra- 2 year | 1 semester
following three dimensions: capacity to intervene phy, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Civil Legislation and Urban Administration 0|0|0 6
in actual urban and regional development Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Econo- Territory, Regional Policies and Inovation PRU 0|0|0 6
situations; knowledge about the theoretical and mics, Sociology and Political Science. Dissertation / Project / Placement PRU 0|0|0 12
conceptual evolution in the domain of urban and Electrive II 0|3|0 6
regional planning, as well as about the evolution of How to apply Knowledge, Inovation and Technology CS 0|3|0 6
planning policy and practice at the international Environmental Law and Urbanism CJ 0|0|0 6
level; capacity to develop a critical and proactive Candidates for student exchange programmes like e-Planning PRU 0|0|0 6
approach towards the society and the territory. ERASMUS, CAMPUS EUROPAE, ECIU Exchanges, Governance, Democracy and Globalisation CP 0|3|0 6
Accordingly, the MSc allows for facilitating the Bilateral Exchanges, Santander Scholarship Population Policies CS 0|3|0 6
students’ access to solid theoretical, conceptual Programme etc., should make their applications Urban Rehabilitation Policies PRU 0|0|0 6
and instrumental basis, which emerges as a crucial via the International Office Sustainable Development Policices CP 0|0|0 6
means to analyze, evaluate, and critically unders- (http://www.ua.pt/gri/PageImage.aspx?id=8793) 2 year | 2 semester
tand the territory, in its physical, environmental, Dissertation / Project / Placement PRU 0|0|0 30