{"id":1195,"date":"2015-11-23T12:19:15","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T12:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iusd.asu.edu.eg\/?page_id=1195"},"modified":"2019-04-10T12:17:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T10:17:00","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/iusd.asu.edu.eg\/?page_id=1195","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The IUSD Lab aims at serving as a platform for interdisciplinary and intercultural academic exchange. IUSD-Lab will establish itself as a joint, cross-institutional center at Stuttgart University and Ain Shams University, involving several faculties and departments within these universities. It will closely cooperate with a broad range of partners from different academic, governmental and private institutions around the world. The IUSD-Lab provides access to the megacity of Cairo and economic hub of Stuttgart with their world-class networks of industrial and research institutions. It supports the implementation of pilot projects in close cooperation with its international network of research, teaching and business partners. The results of teaching activities are contributing to the lab\u2019s research activities and vice versa. Different forms of outputs, such as events and publications are used to disseminate the Lab\u2019s work.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Vision<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The vision of the IUSD Lab is to jointly develop the IUSD program into a self-sustainable German-Egyptian center for graduate teaching, research, training and dialogue in Stuttgart and Cairo &#8211; the \u201cIntegrated Urbanism and Sustainable Design Laboratory\u201d (IUSD-Lab). Its thematic focus will be on sustainable urban development of Egypt and the MENA region in close relation to international approaches.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Mission<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The aim of situating the IUSD program within the framework of the IUSD-Lab is to pool competencies in sustainable urban development in order to become self-sustainable through external research funding and funding of partners after the end of the initial period of funding by DAAD and the supporting ministries. It also gives a proposal on engaging former IUSD graduates within the research activities of the IUSD LAB.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Scope<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The IUSD-Lab will be hosting research and practice that deal with spatial and subject related fields. 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