Faculty exchange and visits
In order to enhance the quality of education, faculty from KTH and PUA exchanging visits to the counterpart university. This is seen as a good opportunity for promoting cross cultural exchange between staff, teaching assistants, and students within joined fields of study.
Previous activities
Workshop on new Egyptian cities - Urban Design, an architectural task
In the coming years new cities will be built in Egypt, urban design will become an important subject for the development of the country as a whole. There is no profession more suitable to address the urban form of cities than the architect. The potential of developing sustainable urban form can have a massive impact on living qualities and the reduction of energy needs, if professionally designed. In this concern PUA and KTH organised a four day workshop aimed at guiding students and young teachers to relevant procedures which give insights in these complex questions of urban sustainable cities. The teams acquired skills and abilities to independently, and with adequate methods completed and evaluated urban design projects.