The Department of Land Management is supporting the doctoral research programme of the West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL) at the Federal University of Technology, Minna, Nigeria. WASCAL is a large-scale, research-oriented climate service center that receives substantial support from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) with the goal of intensifying cooperation between universities abroad. During a two-week teaching and research stay from March 23rd to April 3rd, the collaboration with TU Darmstadt contributes to strengthening education in geoinformation, spatial analysis, and data-based approaches for climate-related research and land-use questions.

Atlanta. The Technical University of Darmstadt was represented at this year’s 20th conference of the International Academic Association on Planning, Law, and Property Rights (PLPR). On behalf of the Department of Land Management, doctoral candidate Rebecca James, M.Sc., attended the international conference to present her research on gentrification processes in South America. The conference provided a platform for interdisciplinary exchange on key challenges in urban and regional development, as well as on legal and institutional issues in this context.

Two contributions from our department have been published in the new volume “Land Management in a Changing World – Regulations, Data, Procedures, and Tools for a Sustainable Future” (European Academy of Land Use and Development).

This year's hydraulic engineering and geodesy field trip took the student excursion group to the German-French border region from July 28 to August 1, 2025.

TOD and Green Transformation Towards Sustainability

We are pleased to announce that the call for abstracts for the 11th International Conference on Sustainable Urban Development (SUD) under the theme “Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) and Green Transformation Towards Sustainability” is now open. This annual conference is jointly organized by the Sustainable Urban Development (SUD) program, Vietnamese-German University (VGU), and Darmstadt University of Technology. The event will take place on October 24, 2025, at the VGU campus, Ring Road 4, Quarter 4, Thoi Hoa Ward, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.