About SPRING

SPRING (Spatial Planning for Regions in Growing Economies) is a two year Master´s degree programme that addresses up to date topics of spatial planning in developing countries. In lectures, participants of the SPRING Programme discuss for instance the rapid growth of megacities, searching for solutions in the conflict between environmental protection and economic development as well as dealing with strategies to improve traffic systems. The course starts with one year of study in Dortmund, Germany, followed by a second year at one of the four partner universities in Asia, Africa or Latin America. At TU Dortmund University SPRING is with now more than 25 years the oldest Master course and was the first one being conducted in English.

MISSION

Governments in Africa, Asia and Latin America have initiated new regional development strategies based on national decentralisation policies in order to reduce regional disparities. The management of the new decentralised administrative units (districts, regions or municipalities), however, is rarely commensurate with the new requirements.

Planners are increasingly challenged to overcome the boundaries between administrative sectors, and to bridge the gap between formulating a plan and implementing a programme. New qualifications are required, ranging from planning competences to management skills, i.e. to make programmes operational with respect to financial requirements and restrictions or to moderate multi-stakeholder participatory processes.

Taking into account a gap in adequate training for development planning and management in the developing world, five universities in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe are co-operating in the SPRING programme.

HISTORY & FACTS

Launched in 1984 and designed as a joint course, SPRING pioneered in such way of international academic co-operation. It started in the beginning of the 1980s as a common idea of some African University teachers and a small group of professors and staff members of the Faculty of Spatial Planning at the TU Dortmund University (since 2007: TU Dortmund University). Initially launched as model scheme it has since then developed to a network with five partner universities: The first was the University of Science and Technology in Kumasi/Ghana, which since 2004 also offers the first year of the Master programme. In 1987 the Asian Institute of Technology in Manila joined and was replaced by the School of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of the Philippines in Manila in 1996. Since 2003 the University College of Lands and Architectural Studies at the University of Dar Es Salaam (today Ardhi University) in Tanzania takes part in the network as second African partner. With the Universidad Austral de Chile in Valdivia, the SPRING-network also has a Latin-American member, which joined in 2006. And it does not seem unlikely that this network will be expanded in the future.

The exceptional success of the SPRING programme is shown through more than 550 Alumni from over 60 countries as well as the decoration with the award as “Top 10 International Master’s Degree Courses Made in Germany” through the German Academic Exchange Service in cooperation with the Association for the Promotion of Science and Huamnities in Germany. They are now employed in leading positions in such diverse fields as teaching and research, Regional Development and Urban Planning as well as in national ministries and in international development cooperation. The programme is financially supported by the German government, by the governments of the network partners and by international scholarships.

SIADP - SPRING国际发展规划协会

Technische Universität Dortmund

Fakultät Raumplanung

SPRING

August-Schmidt-Straße 6

44227 Dortmund, Germany

Tel: +49 231 755 6***

Fax: +49 231 755 ***

spring**[ta]**dortmund.de

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SPRING Management

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sabine Baumgart

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Acting head of the SPRING programme

Faculty Representative for SPRING Partnership with ARU, Tanzania

Email: sabine.baumgart**[ta]**dortmund.de

Dr. Anne Weber

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SPRING Coordinator

Faculty Representative for SPRING Partnership with UACh, Chile

GB I, Room***

Phone: +49/231/755-***

Email: anne.weber**[ta]**dortmund.de

Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Nguyen Xuan Thinh

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Faculty Representative for SPRING Partnership with SURP, Philippines

Email: nguyen.thinh**[ta]**dortmund.de

Dr. Wolfgang Scholz

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Faculty Representative for SPRING Partnership with KNUST, Ghana

Email:wolfgang.scholz**[ta]**dortmund.de

Sarah Gehrmann

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Examination Board Officer (Transcript and Certificates)

Email: pa.rp**[ta]**dortmund.de

Secretariat

Elvira Knap

GB I, Room***

Phone: +49/231/755-***

Email: elvira.knap**[ta]**dortmund.de

Student Assistants

Ronja Bechauf

GB I, Room***

+49/231/755-***

Felix Dömelt

GB I, Room***

+49/231/755-***

Annika Guhl

GB I, Room***

+49/231/755-***

Lutz Hangebrauck

GB I, Room***

+49/231/755-***

Nathalie Hüppen

GB I, Room***

+49/231/755-***

Lukas Kasperidus

GB I, Room***

+49/231/755-***

Ricarda Koch

GB I, Room***

+49/231/755-***

Jasmine Lütke Harmann

GB I, Room***

+49/231/755-***

ricarda.koch**[ta]**dortmund.de

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TU Dortmund University - Germany

Technische Universität Dortmund

Fakultät Raumplanung

SPRING Programme

44221 Dortmund

GERMANY

Tel.: +49 231 755 ***

Fax: +49 231 755 ***

E-mail: spring**[ta]**dortmund.de      

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST)

College of Architecture and Planning

Department of Planning

Kumasi, GHANA

Tel.: +233 3220 6***

Fax: +233-51-6***

E-mail: spring.cap**[ta]**st.edu.gh

Http://www.**ust.edu.gh

Ardhi University - Tanzania

Ardhi University

School of Urban and Regional Planning

P.O. Box 35176, Dar es Salaam

TANZANIA

Tel. +255 22 27 7***

Fax +255 22 27 7***

E-mail: spring**[ta]**.ac.tz

Http://www.**u.ac.tz

University of the Philippines

School of Urban and Regional Planning (SURP)

Diliman, Quezon City ***

THE PHILIPPINES

Tel.: +63-2-920***

Fax: +63-2-929***

Http://www.**rp.upd.edu.ph/

Universidad Austral de Chile

Facultad de Ciencias

Economicas y Administrativas

Valdivia, CHILE

Tel. +56 63 22***

Fax +56 63 21***

E-mail: spring**[ta]**h.cl

Http://spring.uach.cl

For further information please contact

DAAD

Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst

German Academic Exchange Service

Section 431 – Postgraduate Courses for Professionals

P.O. Box 20 0***

53175 Bonn, Germany

Phone: +49 228 882***

Fax: +49 228 882***

e-mail: info-ast[at]daad***

Http://www.**ad.de/development

Urban Management Programme

Berlin University of Technology

Sekr. A 53 Habitat Unit

Strasse des 17. Juni***

10623 Berlin, Germany

Phone: +49 30 314 2***

Fax: +49 30 314 2***

e-mail: bettina.hamann**[ta]**berlin.de

Http://www.**ban-management.de

ITT Institute for Technology and Resources Management

in the Tropics and Subtropics

Cologne University of Applied Sciences

50679 Köln

Germany

Phone: +49 221 8275 ***

Fax: +49 221 8275 ***

e-mail: info-terma**[ta]**.fh-koeln.de

Http://www.**.fh-koeln.de

TU Dortmund

Faculty of Spatial Planning, ISPC/SPRING

44221 Dortmund

Germany

Phone: +49 231 755 ***

Fax: +49 231 755 ***

e-mail: spring**[ta]**dortmund.de

Http://www.**ring-master.net

Prof. Dr. S. Bauer

Project- und Regional Planning

Universität Giessen

Senckenbergstr. 3

35390 Giessen, Germany

Phone: +49 641 993 ***

Fax: +49 641 993 ***

e-mail: siegfried.bauer**[ta]**-giessen.de

Http://www.**i-giessen.de/Regionalplan/daad/daad.htm

Leibniz University of Hannover

Working Group on Cooperation with Developing Countries

Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Achmus

Appelstr. 9A

30167 Hannover, Germany

Phone: +49 511 762-***

Fax: +49 511 762-***

e-mail: info**[ta]**ze.uni-hannover.de

Http://www.**tze.uni-hannover.de

KIT IfR

Dr. Andreas Megerle

Geb. 10.50, Kaiserstr***

76128 Karlsruhe

Germany

Phone: +49 721 608 ***

Fax: +49 721 608 ***

e-mail: studienberatung**[ta]**.kit.edu

Http://www.**r.kit.edu

TU München

Jorge Espinoza (MSc), Programme Manager

Arcisstrass***

80333 München

Germany

Phone: +49 89 289 2***

Fax: +49 89 289 2***

e-mail: master**[ta]**dmanagement-muenchen.de

Http://www.**ndmanagement-master.de

University of Applied Sciences Stuttgart

MSc Photogrammetry and Geoinformatics

Schellingstrass***

70174 Stuttgart

Germany

Phone: +49 711 8926 2612 or 8926 ***

Fax: +49 711 8926 ***

e-mail: master-pg**[ta]**-stuttgart.de

Http://www.**t-stuttgart.de/PhotogrammetryGeoinformatics

Master’s Programme Infrastructure Planning (MIP)

University of Stuttgart

Pfaffenwaldring 7

70569 Stuttgart

Germany

Phone: +49 711 685 6***

Fax: +49 711 685 6***

e-mail: elke.schneider**[ta]**.uni-stuttgart.de

Http://www.**p.uni-stuttgart.de

Technische Universität Dortmund

Fakultät Raumplanung

SPRING

August-Schmidt-Straße 6

44227 Dortmund

Germany

Phone: + 49 231 755 ***

Fax: + 49 231 755 ***

E-Mail: spring**[ta]**dortmund.de

Http://www.**ring-master.net

All requests about SIADP Organisation to:

Dr. Anne Weber

anne.weber**[ta]**dortmund.de

alumni**[ta]**ost.org

application.spring**[ta]**dortmund.de