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Access to public and private services in land use planning law

Geneva – Lausanne

September 3-4-5, 2026

Universities of Geneva, Lausanne and Neuchâtel

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Thursday, September 3, 2026

University of Geneva

Uni Mail, room M 2170

18:00

Opening lecture
Christian Levrat
Chairman of the Swiss Post Board of Directors

Friday , September 4, 2026

University of Lausanne

Dorigny Campus, IDHEAP room

9:15

Opening of the Conference
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Speaker from the University of Lausanne

Thierry Tanquerel
Honorary professor at the University of Geneva , President of AIDRU

First session

Chaired by Norbert Foulquier, Professor at the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, Director of GRIDAUH

9:30	General introduction Vera Parisio Professor at the University of Brescia, Secretary General of AIDRU
9:45	Integrating access to services into urban planning (synthesis report) Matthias Rossi Professor at the University of Augsburg
10:15	The right of access to public services (synthesis report) Thierry Largey Professor at the University of Lausanne
10:45	Break

Second session

Chaired by David Renders, Professor at the UCLouvain. Lawyer at the Brussels Bar

11:00	First roundtable (Germany, Austria, France, Belgium)
12:00	General discussion
12:30	Lunch

Third session

Chaired by Michel Pâques, Emeritus Professor at the University of Liège, judge at the Belgium Constitutional Court

13:45	Participation and litigation regarding access to public services (synthesis report) Anna Simonati Professor at the University of Trento
14:15	Second roundtable (Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain)
15:15	Break
15:30	Tools to promote access to private services (synthesis report) Alice Fuchs-Cessot Associate professor at the University of Paris 8 Vincennes Saint-Denis, Scientific Co-director of Gridauh
16:00	Third roundtable (Morocco, Turkey, European Union)
16:45	General discussion
17:15	End of the session

Saturday, September 5, 2026

University of Geneva

Uni Mail, room M 2140

Fourth session

Chaired by Frédéric Bernard, Professor at the University of Geneva

9:00	Lessons from the national examples (synthesis report) Thierry Tanquerel Honorary professor of the University of Geneva, President of AIDRU
9:30	Fourth roundtable (United Kingdom, Romania, Switzerland, Cameroon)
10:30	Break
10:45	General Discussion Chaired by Jean-Claude Bonichot Former judge at the Court of Justice of the European Union
11:15	Award of the AIDRU – GRIDAUH prize and presentation of the prize-winning essay
11:45	General Conclusions Jacqueline Morand-Deviller Emeritus professor of the University of Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, Honorary President of AIDRU
12:00	AIDRU General Assembly
13:00	End of conference

National reports

Austria
Maria Bertel, Professor at the University of Graz
Mirjam Hofer, Post Doc, researcher at the University of Graz
Marlene Mlekusch, Research assistant and doctoral student at the University of Graz

Belgium /Wallonia /Bruxelles
Alexandre Pirson, Associate professor at the University of Liège

Cameroon
Victorine Ghislaine Nzino Munongo, Reasercher, Department of Economic and Environmental Studies, National Centre for Education, Yaoundé

France
François Priet, Emeritus Professor at the University of Orleans
Emilie Charpentier, Associate professor at the University of Orléans

Germany
Christoph Mayer, Lecturer at the Rhineland-Palatinate University of Technology, Kaiserslautern-Landau

Greece
Konstantinos Gogos,Professor at the University of Thessaloniki

Italy
Emanuele Boscolo, Professor at the University of Insubria, President of AIDU, Lawyer at the Milan Bar

Morocco
Maijd Mansoul, Professor at the Ecole nationale d’Architecture, Rabat

Portugal
Fernando Alves Correia, Emeritus Professor at the University of Coimbra
Fernanda Paula Oliveira, Professor at the University of Coimbra

Romania
Andrei Dutu-Buzura, Associate Professor at the National University of Political Studies and Public administration, Bucarest

Spain
Josep Maria Aguirre, Professor at the University of Gerona
Albert Lladó, Professor at the University of Gerona

Switzerland
Valérie Défago, Professor at the University of Neuchâtel

Turkey
Bige Açımuz, Associate professor at the University of Koç, Istanbul
Özge Aksoylu, Associate professor at the University of Galatasaray, Istanbul

United Kingdom
Antonia Layard, Professor at the University of Oxford

European Union
Francis Haumont, Emeritus professor of UCLouvain, Lawyer at the Brussels and Nice Bars