ARL – Academy for Territorial Development in the Leibniz Association

The ARL’s network of eminent experts from science and practice carries out research and knowledge transfer activities within the Academy’s joint working committees, thus offering important insights and findings for the future-oriented development of spatial structures and the political and planning measures necessary for shaping them. At the same time, this knowledge transfer adds value on multiple fronts: the coproduction of knowledge expands specialist and sectoral perspectives, advances innovation and enlightens the work of the contributors in their principal professional activities. Moreover, the ARL makes these insights and findings available to all interested parties as well as to stakeholders in politics and public administrations on an ongoing basis.

The ARL is an independent, non-partisan institution for the spatial sciences under public law and is based in Hanover. As a Leibniz institution, it is funded jointly by the Federal Government and the federal states due to its supraregional significance and its work in the interest of national science policy.