Association of European Schools of Planning Quality Recognition Programme

Quality Recognition (QR) is a programme for continual quality support based on voluntary grounds, peer support and sharing of best practices for the improvement of teaching and pedagogy to safeguard the quality of planning education reflecting the changing requirements on AESOP member schools. The leading motto for AESOP QR is to promote excellence in learning and education.

The attempt of AESOP therefore is not to assess or to accredit the schools of planning but to enhance the scientific and professional quality of European planning schools. This is in the heart of AESOP’s mission. AESOP QR is complementary to the role of other European institutions in the field of higher education. The outstanding potential of AESOP lies in its capacity to moderate mutual learning processes among schools of planning in Europe and beyond, considering different planning environments, cultures and systems.

AESOP QR was instituted as a permanent AESOP activity in Venice in 2019. QR complements ongoing activities of AESOP in promoting excellence in planning education, such as the AESOP Excellence in Teaching Award.