COLLECTIVE TRAINING: programme of Metropolitan Seminars 2025
Dive into the heart of metropolitan dynamics and take part in a collective co-production experience to shape tomorrow’s territories.
- Explore metropolitan contexts and experiences, compare and enhance your practices.
- Exchanges with local stakeholders, in a dialogue between territories.
- Deepen your practical, theoretical, and strategic knowledge on topics such as strategic planning, risk management, city centre regeneration, mobility, urban-nature relationships, and more.
- The Metropolitan Seminars are organised since 2014 by AVITEM in partnership with the Campus AFD group (the training centre of the French Development Agency).
An immersive training experience
Two weeks of field visits and exchanges, spread across a year, in two inspiring Mediterranean metropolises.
Spring in Bologna, Italy: from 4 to 9 May 2025
A metropolitan strategy renowned for the urban regeneration of its city centre, for its polycentrism, balancing development, environmental protection, and social cohesion.
Autumn in Tirana, Albania: from 9 to 14 November 2025
A metropolis with a remarkable urban heritage, characterised by rapid urban renewal, a virtuous urban-nature relationship, and a coherent regional integration perspective.
Join a professional network
Are you involved in territorial projects? Whether you are an elected official or local leader, a representative of State services, a private or public professional, an NGO representative, an academic, or a researcher, join a network of experts from across the Mediterranean.
- Applications deadline: 15 March 2025
Requirements:
> Experience in territorial and urban project management
> Proficiency in French and/or English (spoken and written)
> Commitment to the entire seminar cycle
Participation fee: 500€
Travel, accommodation, and some meal costs are at your charge (one meal per day covered by AVITEM).
On the program:
- Two 5-day seminars
- Educational content on territorial projects
- Field visits
- Exchanges with local stakeholders
- Conferences, roundtables, and peer workshops
- Capitalisation and publication of Metropolitan Booklets
- Two peer-to-peer webinars to discuss territorial practices