The 5th World Planning Schools Congress organizers welcome the submission of session proposals. Topics of interest include but are not limited to, the general theme of the congress, “Planning a Global Village: Inclusion, Innovation and Disruption” and one of the tracks of the congress.

A session is the length of a regular session at the conference, and maybe organized as a poster session, a panel session, a poster session with panel discussion, or an oral presentation session.

Session submission information:

• Proposal should include the title of the session, a short, intriguing title that correctly expresses the topic of your session;
• Please indicate co-sponsor (if any);
• Proposal submissions must contain an abstract describing the theme of the session with no more than 300 words that explains the background, content, and conclusion of your session and their relevance with the track description;
• Provide session convener’s name, affiliation, and full contact information;
• Provide contributors’ names, affiliations, and emails involved in the session;
• Please provide your session accessibility: (1) open or (2) closed: contributors are suggested by the convenor and preferably listed in the proposal
• Each Session will be held a maximum of 100 minutes;
• Please choose one of the following tracks when writing your proposal. A list of tracks can be seen below

1. Urban, peri-urban, and metropolitan development
2. Informality, inclusion, and participation
3. Heritage, culture, and identity
4. Disaster, risk, and resilience
5. Environment, climate, and health
6. ICT, knowledge, and innovation
7. Spatial analysis, methods, and modelling
8. Governance and politics
9. Infrastructure, transport, and mobility
10. Rural, regional, and small island development
11. Planning history, theory, and practice
12. Planning education and pedagogy
13. Land, housing, and settlement

• Define the format of the session and describe how your session and presentation will engage the audience. The type of the session could be in the form of paper presentation and discussion, poster presentation and discussion, panel, roundtable forum, debate, author meets critiques, or workshop;
• Every submitter can only submit one abstract and one session (as the first author and convenor). However, the same submitter can be a co-author (but not the first author) of more than one abstract.
• Please note that we only facilitate presentations and not any publication plans. If convenors would like to plan publications, such as a special issue in a journal and an edited book, you have to arrange yourselves.
• All proposals must be written in English
• The scientific committee will decide the acceptance of proposals based on suitability with the congress themes and the room availability at the venue.