What is NEURUS?
NEURUS is an international consortium of universities dedicated to the collaborative study of urban and regional development issues. The origin of the acronym NEURUS derives from the consortium's original title when first established in 1998: the Network for European and U.S. Regional and Urban Studies consisted of six universities, three in Europe and three in the United States. Today, the eight university NEURUS consortium is continuing to explore partnerships with universities and colleagues elsewhere in North America, Asia, and Latin America. It is no longer a network comprised only of institutions in Europe and the United States.
NEURUS is based on a concept of research and education befitting an age of growing territorial integration and heightened global interchange. Through the use of Internet technologies, faculty and student exchange, distance learning, periodic transcontinental seminars, and traditional forms of research collaboration, NEURUS aims to make the resources and expertise of multiple universities available to researchers and students at any of the partner institutions. Participation in NEURUS invites access to an expanding international cadre of urban and regional scholars, top ranked research universities, and collaborating public and private agencies.
A centerpiece of the consortium is the NEURUS Fellows program, a framework of agreements and supportive environments designed to give scholars and students flexible opportunities to enhance their study of urban and regional issues from comparative perspectives. Through distance learning courses, NEURUS also encourages the participation of students and scholars from other universities, wherever they are located.
Issues and topics pursued by NEURUS scholars, though wide ranging, share a common theme: a focus on forces and trends affecting cities and regions in an increasingly global economy. Areas of faculty expertise include economic development, sustainable development, innovation, science policy, infrastructure, land use and management, environmental regulation and control, community development, housing, geographic information systems, and economic impact methods and modeling. NEURUS attracts scholars and students in a variety of disciplines including--but not limited to--business administration, public policy, city planning, geography, sociology, economics, and political science.
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NEURUS is an international consortium of universities dedicated to the collaborative study of urban and regional development issues. The origin of the acronym NEURUS derives from the consortium's original title when first established in 1998: the Network for European and U.S. Regional and Urban Studies consisted of six universities, three in Europe and three in the United States. Today, the eight university NEURUS consortium is continuing to explore partnerships with universities and colleagues elsewhere in North America, Asia, and Latin America. It is no longer a network comprised only of institutions in Europe and the United States.
NEURUS is based on a concept of research and education befitting an age of growing territorial integration and heightened global interchange. Through the use of Internet technologies, faculty and student exchange, distance learning, periodic transcontinental seminars, and traditional forms of research collaboration, NEURUS aims to make the resources and expertise of multiple universities available to researchers and students at any of the partner institutions. Participation in NEURUS invites access to an expanding international cadre of urban and regional scholars, top ranked research universities, and collaborating public and private agencies.
A centerpiece of the consortium is the NEURUS Fellows program, a framework of agreements and supportive environments designed to give scholars and students flexible opportunities to enhance their study of urban and regional issues from comparative perspectives. Through distance learning courses, NEURUS also encourages the participation of students and scholars from other universities, wherever they are located.
Issues and topics pursued by NEURUS scholars, though wide ranging, share a common theme: a focus on forces and trends affecting cities and regions in an increasingly global economy. Areas of faculty expertise include economic development, sustainable development, innovation, science policy, infrastructure, land use and management, environmental regulation and control, community development, housing, geographic information systems, and economic impact methods and modeling. NEURUS attracts scholars and students in a variety of disciplines including--but not limited to--business administration, public policy, city planning, geography, sociology, economics, and political science.
Click here to learn more about the HISTORY of the NEURUS Program.
