Professional Training & Courses

IUSD Lab offers extra-curricular activities and training courses from the IUSD M.Sc. programme in cooperation with external partners. It functions as a complementary education tool to already practicing professionals and as an answer to a growing demand of part-time qualification for professionals. Also, it offers seminars for alumni of IUSD M.Sc. and IUSD PhD programmes, to develop their networks and further their careers.

Available modules

1-Summer and Spring schools, which are already in effect since the establishment of the IUSD master programme with already two schools have been held in September 2011 in Cairo related to urban planning and management and another held in April 2013 in Siwa related to architecture and climate design.

2-Training Workshops that the IUSD-Lab can either organize solely or in cooperation with another partner for a period of maximum three days.

3-Hosting Workshops, in which the IUSD-Lab would only be responsible for place-provision, while the organization and management of the workshop will be the responsibility of another partner.

4-Crash Courses, with a period of minimum 5 days to a maximum of two weeks, in a selected topic or specialization in which one or more tutors can be involved from ASU as well as other institutions. In this case, a certificate of attendance shall be given as well as possible credit transfer (ECTS) to other international university can be done in case of postgraduate students).

5-International Training Programs (ITP), can be organized as well for a duration of six to eight weeks and targeting more professional training either in construction, management, etc…

6-Organizing Conferences and Symposium.