As usual, the compulsory courses Regional Planning Practice, opens an external URL in a new window and Spatial Development Planning, opens an external URL in a new window (preparatory seminar for Project 2) take place in the Bachelor's degree programme.  This semester, Regional Planning Practice will focus on the federal state of Styria. There will also be an orientation week, opens an external URL in a new window and planning studio, opens an external URL in a new window in the summer semester for newcomers. 

A Bachelor elective module will be offered this semester:

Elective module 4 Co-operation and Identification Region Across Borders. The elective module consists of the VU Cooperation Region - Beyond Borders, opens an external URL in a new window and the excursion EX Cooperation Region - Beyond Borders: Excursion to Brussels and Hamburg, opens an external URL in a new window. 
In addition, the bachelor's seminar ‘Bachelor thesis - Public services in rural area, opens an external URL in a new windows’ is offered as part of elective module 4.
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The diploma seminar Region, opens an external URL in a new window will be offered again for the Master's programme. In addition, this year the project 3 Master Project/Design: Transforming Spaces - Transformation of urban car parking spaces. 

The following courses are offered in the Master's elective area:

WM 2 (Spatial planning in rural and alpine areas) 
VU Planning Processes for Rural and Alpine Areas, opens an external URL in a new window (core subject)
SE Strategies for Rural and Alpine Areas Salzkammergut, opens an external URL in a new window (core subject)
EX Planning in Rural and Alpine Space - Salzkammergut 2024 revisited , opens an external URL in a new window(supplementary subject)

In the 2025 summer semester, the focus will be on the Alpine region. 

WM 4 (Mobility and spatial energy planning)
VO Energy-related Spatial Planning, opens an external URL in a new window (core subject)

Focus courses (supplementary subjects) 
VU Erneuerbare Ressourcen im Raum, opens an external URL in a new window  (WM 3 und WM 4)
SE Wissensgewinn durch Konferenzteilnahmen CORP Graz 2024, opens an external URL in a new window (WM 1 und 3)
SE Raumgeschichten - Jetzt und Dann, , opens an external URL in a new window (WM 2 und 5)
SE Raumplanerische Positionen zur Klimakrise, opens an external URL in a new window (ALLE WM)
EX Entwicklungsperspektiven Stadtregion , opens an external URL in a new windowBrünn, opens an external URL in a new window (WM 1 und 3)
EX Fokus Raumplanung - Experiencing Japan - Part2: Discovery, opens an external URL in a new window (WM 1 und 3)
EX Bratislava-Wien - brutalism, post-socialist housing policy and municipal buildings between 1965-1985, opens an external URL in a new window (WM 3 und 5)
VU Mission Region – Forschung und Lehre zur Regionalentwicklung und -planung an europäischen Hochschulen, opens an external URL in a new window (Free electives)​​​​​​​
VO Campus of Change – Intersektionale Ansätze zur Bewältigung der Klimakrise, opens an external URL in a new window  (Free electives)