Frank Schwartze is a german urban planner and professor for urbanism and planning at the TH Lübeck, University of Applied Sciences. He is a member of the Association of Town and Regional Planners in Germany (SRL), an elected
member of the German Academy for Urbanism and Territorial Planning (DASL), and a registered member of the Chamber of Architects in Berlin. He has more than 30 years of proven experience in urban and regional development with specific regard to sustainable planning in South-East Asia and the MENA Region.

Silke Weidner is an urban planner from Germany. Since 2009 she is the head of the Chair of Urban Management and since 2017 the head of the Department of Urban Planning at the Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU). Since 2004 she is a Partner in the Leipzig urban planning office |u|m|s| STADTSTRATEGIEN. She is a member of SRL, DASL, gif, WHS and of different Boards of Urban Development.

Liubov Apostolova-Sossa is an urban planner from Ukraine. Since 2004 she is head of the Urban Economy Department, Faculty of Urban and Spatial Planning at the Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture (KNUCA). She is a certified architect for the elaboration of urban planning documentation. She is a member of ICOMOS and NSAU

Anna Kuzyshyn holds a M.Sc. as urban planner and architect, she is a research assistant at the Chair of Urban Planning at RPTU Kaiserslautern. She coordinates the projects of DAAD Ukraine Digital and GIZ Strengthen Urban Resilience with focus on digital teaching modules and workshops, and on resilient urban development in Ukraine. As a planner, she has participated in various urban design competitions.

Detlef Kurth is is educated as city and regional planner, he is professor at the chair of urban planning at RPTU Kaiserslautern. He is teaching and doing research in the fields of urban design, urban regeneration, urban development, climate adaptation, climate protection, sustainability, urban resilience. He is supporting the resilient recovery of Ukrainian cities with several projects of DAAD and GIZ

Poliksen Qorri-Dragaj is an urban planner and research assistant at the Chair of Urban Planning at RPTU Kaiserslautern. As an urban planner, she has been involved in the development of various urban climate adaptation concepts. In her research, she focuses on the topics of urban climate adaptation, public space and urban resilience.

Sepideh Zarrin Ghalam is an academic associate at the Brandenburg University of Technology in Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU). She wrote her PhD on “Urban Change and Continuity through the Frame of Historic Urban Landscape Approach”.
In the frame of the Middle-East-Cooperation, she has worked on research projects in Aleppo, Syria and
for the Bazar Abbas in Port Said, Egypt

Christoph Wessling is an urban planner and architect from Berlin and a visiting professor at the Brandenburg University of Technology in Cottbus (BTU). He is the founder of the Middle-East-Cooperation Unit at the BTU and one of the founders of the double degree master’s programme Urban Design – Revitalisation of Historic City Districts, which is run at the BTU together with the University of Cairo and Alexandria. He was also a mentor for the Integrated Urban Development Concept Chernivtsi 2030.

Chyzhevskyi Oleksandr Pavlovych is an architect from Ukraine with 45 years of experience in architecture and urban planning. He has led the development of planning schemes for more than 50 territorial communities in Ukraine. He is also the author and co-author of a number of publications in the field of spatial planning, including methodologies and guidelines for the evelopment of spatial planning projects for territorial communities.

Hanna Palekha is Vice President of the National Union of Architects of Ukraine (NSAU) and head of the Association of Spatial Planners of Ukraine (ASP-UC NSAU). She has over 20 years of experience in architecture and urban planning. She is an expert in spatial planning and integrated development of territories and an initiator of urban planning projects and public initiatives.

Tetiana Kryshtop is an urban planner and member of the National Union of Architects of Ukraine (NSAU). She has worked on a draft Urban Development Code of Ukraine. She has also worked on a number of planning schemes. For example, on a general planning scheme for the territory of Ukriane or a planning scheme for the territory of the Kyiv region, as well as scientific recommendations for the development of urban planning documentation

Svitlana Biriuk is an urban planner and architect from Ukraine and works for the LLC “Ukrainian Scientific-Design Institute of Civil Building”. She has worked on the development of several concepts and plans, for example the Concept of Sustainable Development of Settlements of Ukraine, the Concept of Strategic Development of the City of Kyiv and its Suburban Area until 2025 or the Zoning Plan of the Territory around the Kyiv Fortress Complex

Haris Piplas is an architect and urbanist from Switzerland. He works for Drees & Sommer in the field of Integrated Urban Solutions as well as for ETH Zurich as a practice lecturer in Spatial Transformations and HfT Stuttgart as a lecturer in Smart City Solutions. He has worked on several international projects in Bosnia, Ukraine, Germany, Indonesia, Switzerland and India.