Urban Places Academy
Urban Mobility & Urban Development: Frameworks, Case Studies, and Decision-Making Skills. For project managers from cities, companies, and organizations.
The Urban Places Academy brings together decision-makers from cities, the business sector, startups, and research with renowned instructors from both the professional and academic worlds. You’ll gain access to field-tested frameworks and clear decision-making guidelines for projects in urban development, mobility, and energy. This will strengthen your decision-making skills for future challenges—as evidenced by 3 ECTS credits and the “Certificate of Professional Education” from the Technical University of Berlin & EIT Urban Mobility.
Each module uses real-world case studies, tools, and templates. Participants take home concrete templates that they can immediately apply to their projects.
By participating in the Summit, participants can build a lasting network focused on how strategic decisions in areas such as transportation, infrastructure, energy, and urban development can be made and effectively implemented.
In the modules, participants work closely with decision-makers and experts from government, business, and the innovation sector. The exchange within the Urban Place Academy community brings new perspectives, contacts, and quick solutions.
3 digital modules + 1 one-time summit included. Join at any time.
Course Content
The Path to Becoming the World's Most Livable City (March 12, 2027)
How do Copenhagen, Vienna, and Zurich systematically build quality of life, and which of these approaches can be applied in your context? You’ll gain clear levers for change, comparable models, and concrete starting points to make well-founded arguments for and implement priorities in the street environment.
This module demonstrates how the three most livable cities in the world systematically build quality of life—not through isolated measures, but through clear priorities in the street environment, the consistent expansion of sustainable mobility, and implementation that is politically viable and operationally effective.
Learning Goals
- A clear understanding of which factors truly drive quality of life in cities (comparable patterns from three benchmark cities: Copenhagen, Vienna, Zurich)
- Concrete starting points for how priorities regarding street space can be justified and implemented
- In-depth knowledge of passenger car fleets and charging infrastructure (current status and next steps), public transit electrification, depots, and network requirements; logistics fleets and operational requirements; (bi-)directional charging and its practical implications; and real estate & transformation: connected power, investment logic, and location decisions
- In-depth examination of the topic of autonomous driving
Participation & Requirements
- Target Group
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Decision-makers and project managers from cities, companies, and public organizations—including those in mobility/public transportation, urban development, regulation & governance, innovation/digital teams, operations/transportation companies, real estate, energy, infrastructure, and consulting.
- Prior Knowledge
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A deep interest in the topic
- Technical requirements
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Laptop/PC + headset with microphone
- Certificate Details
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Certificate of Professional Education from TU Berlin & EIT Urban Mobility (3 ECTS)
University-based continuing education, designed for real-world application
Our courses are developed within the academic departments of TU Berlin and are taught by people who conduct research and work in their respective fields.
The content is drawn from research topics at TU Berlin and beyond and is presented in high-quality course formats.
Apply your knowledge directly in the course and explore your professional challenges and questions.
A certificate of participation from the Technical University of Berlin, a University of Excellence within the Berlin University Alliance.
Recognized as educational leave in Berlin. Employees are granted up to 5 days off from work for continuing education.
„After two days, I had templates that my team had been using for months. That was the first training program that had a direct impact on our day-to-day work.“