About UNREAD

4EU+ Course „Urban Regulations and Political Memory: Towards understanding Spatio-Temporal aspects of Urban Development” (UNREAD) is one of the educational projects developed under Flagship 1. It is an interdisciplinary course conducted by a team of historians, lawyers and geographers from University of Warsaw, University of Milan, Charles University, during the academic year 2022/2023.

The first course was conducted in 2021/2022 and you can find information about it here: https://unread.wpia.uw.edu.pl/

Key topics of the course are driving forces of urban changes, the development of smart cities and interdisciplinary methodologies of urban studies. The project concerns changes in the conditions of the urban development of smart cities in Poland, Italy and Czech Republic, according to three dimensions: past (history), present (law) and future (geography), emphasizing an integrated and interdisciplinary approach in order to understand the complexity of new urban centres in which real estate development must coexist with the protection of the environment and with the history and heritage of the local community.

The course included 30 online didactic hours (18 hours of lectures, 12 hours of workshops). Students will prepare essays and present them in groups at a 2-day residential conference at the Charles University in April 2023.

ECTS recognition is done at the home university and faculty.

ECTS credits at Charles University: Faculty of Law 4, Faculty of Science 5.

ECTS credits at University of Milan: 3 (University of Milan: history – only MA students, Faculty of Law 3).

ECTS credits at University of Warsaw: Faculty of Law 6, Faculty of History 4.

Application and selection:

The students will be selected based on their CV and motivation letter. The deadline for sending the documents is 3 October 2022. The CV and the motivation letter should be sent as a single PDF document to unread@wpia.uw.edu.pl. The file's name should contain the applicant's name (surname_name.pdf), and the subject of the email should be "UNREAD recruitment”. The motivation letter should indicate the students’ objectives and motivations for taking the course. The motivation letter should not exceed 1,000 characters.