LUMASEC (Project completed)

The University of Karlsruhe and National Research Centre of Karlsruhe as one of the biggest science and engineering research institutions in Europe is merging to the *Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)*. With roundabout 8000 employees and an annual budget of about 700 million Euros, KIT is becoming a leading institution in selected science disciplines in the world.

The *Institute of Urban and Regional Planning (ISL)* is a subdivision of the Department of Civil Engineering, Geo- and Environmental Sciences. The institute focuses among others on the following topics: significance and challenges of local and regional spatial planning; management and Infrastructure planning; planning strategies and methods; EDP-based instruments of spatial planning; project management; congresses on particularly important questions of spatial planning.

For more information about Didier Vancutsem see www.vancutsem.de