Giancarlo Cotella

• Comparative spatial governance and planning research
• Mobility and Rural Accessibility in Europe
• Spatial development and governance in the Western Balkan Region

ERC sectors

SDG

• Finanziamento delle attività base di ricerca conferred by MIUR, Italy (2017)

• Secretary - AESOP - Association of Europan Schools of Planning, Belgio (2023-)
• Effective member - RSA - Regional Studies Association, Regno Unito (2016-)
• Steering Committe member - AESOP - Association of European Schools of Planning, Regione non valida o sconosciuta (2015-2019)
• Scientific Coordinator - AESOP Thematic Group "Transboundary Spaces, Policy Diffusion, Planning Cultures", Regione non valida o sconosciuta (2015-2022)
• Fellow - A. von Humboldt Foundation, Germania (2010-2011)
  A. von Humboldt Post-doctoral Research Fellow
• Executive Committee member - AESOP - Association of European Schools of Planning, Belgio (2007-2013)
• Executive Committee member - AESOP Young Academics Network, Belgio (2006-2009)

• EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SPATIAL DEVELOPMENT (2020-), Editor of magazine, editorial series, encyclopaedia
• PLANNING, PRACTICE & RESEARCH. (2018-), Editor of magazine, editorial series, encyclopaedia
• EUROPEAN SPATIAL RESEARCH AND POLICY (2016-), Editorial board member
• EUROPA XXI (2013-), Director

• AESOP Annual Congress 2019 "Planning for Transition" (9/7/2019-13/7/2019), Program committee
• AESOP Annual Congress 2017 "Space of dialogue for places of dignity" (11/7/2018-14/7/2018), Program committee
• AESOP Annual Congress 2018 "Making space for hope" (10/7/2018-14/7/2018), Program committee
• World Planning School Congress 2016 "GLOBAL CRISIS, PLANNING & CHALLENGES TO SPATIAL JUSTICE IN THE NORTH AND IN THE SOUTH" (3/7/2016-8/7/2021), Program committee
• AESOP Annual Congress 2015 "DEFINITE SPACE - FUZZY RESPONSIBILITY" (13/7/2015-16/7/2015), Program committee
• AESOP Annual Congress 2014 "From Control to Co-evolution" (9/7/2014-12/7/2014), Program committee
• 2nd AESOP Young Academics Conference "Looking Behind One's Nose", Program chair
• 1st AESOP Young Academic Conference. CE3 - Central amd Easterm European Engagement (1/1/2007-10/2/2007), Program chair

• Visiting Researcher, presso University of Tokyo (1/10/2017-16/9/2018)
• Ricercatore, presso Technische Universität Kaiserslautern (1/10/2010-31/12/2011)
• Visiting Professor, presso Wroclaw University of Technology (1/1/2010-1/7/2010)
• Visiting Professor, presso University of Tartu (1/1/2010-1/6/2010)
• Visiting Researcher, presso Newcastle University (20/2/2006-25/6/2006)

• ARL research group Comparative Spatial Planning Research (2010-2012). Partecipazione
• Gruppo Tecnico SIU "Dottorati di Ricerca" (2017-). Partecipazione
• ARL Research group "Small towns and metropolitan cores: towards cooperation? A European perspective’" (2020-). Partecipazione
• Gruppo Tecnico SIU "Riforma della disciplina urbanistica" (2020-). Partecipazione

• URBAN AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT, 2024/2025 (40. ciclo)
  Politecnico di TORINO
• URBAN AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT, 2023/2024 (39. ciclo)
  Politecnico di TORINO
• URBAN AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT, 2022/2023 (38. ciclo)
  Politecnico di TORINO
• URBAN AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT, 2021/2022 (37. ciclo)
  Politecnico di TORINO
• URBAN AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT, 2020/2021 (36. ciclo)
  Politecnico di TORINO
• URBAN AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT, 2019/2020 (35. ciclo)
  Politecnico di TORINO
• URBAN AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT, 2018/2019 (34. ciclo)
  Politecnico di TORINO
• URBAN AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT, 2017/2018 (33. ciclo)
  Politecnico di TORINO
• URBAN AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT, 2016/2017 (32. ciclo)
  Politecnico di TORINO
• URBAN AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT, 2015/2016 (31. ciclo)
  Politecnico di TORINO
• URBAN AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT, 2014/2015 (30. ciclo)
  Politecnico di TORINO

• Collegio di Architettura e Design. Componente
• Collegio di Pianificazione e Progettazione. Componente

PhD

• Planning Perspectives I. A.A. 2025/26, URBAN AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT. Teaching assistant
• Learning by playing: Urban energy transition as a Serious Game. A.A. 2023/24, URBAN AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT. Teaching assistant
• Learning by playing: Urban energy transition as a Serious Game. A.A. 2022/23, URBAN AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT. Teaching assistant
• Latin American planning systems in transition (didattica di eccellenza). A.A. 2019/20, URBAN AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT. Main teacher

Master of Science

• Planning Theory and Comparative Planning Studies. A.A. 2025/26, PIANIFICAZIONE URBANISTICA E TERRITORIALE. Titolare del corso
• Planning theory and comparative planning studies. A.A. 2024/25, PIANIFICAZIONE URBANISTICA E TERRITORIALE. Titolare del corso
• Planning theory and comparative planning studies. A.A. 2023/24, PIANIFICAZIONE URBANISTICA E TERRITORIALE. Titolare del corso
• Territorial Governance and Spatial Planning Systems. A.A. 2022/23, PIANIFICAZIONE TERRITORIALE, URBANISTICA E PAESAGGISTICO-AMBIENTALE. Titolare del corso
• Challenge@PoliTo by Firms - Ente Turismo LRM. A.A. 2022/23, INGEGNERIA GESTIONALE (ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT). Titolare del corso
• Territorial Governance and Spatial Planning Systems. A.A. 2021/22, PIANIFICAZIONE TERRITORIALE, URBANISTICA E PAESAGGISTICO-AMBIENTALE. Titolare del corso
• Territorial Governance and Spatial Planning Systems. A.A. 2020/21, PIANIFICAZIONE TERRITORIALE, URBANISTICA E PAESAGGISTICO-AMBIENTALE. Titolare del corso
• Challenge@PoliTo by Firms - Programmare risorse e pianificare territori: gli Ambiti di Integrazione Territoriale. A.A. 2020/21, PIANIFICAZIONE TERRITORIALE, URBANISTICA E PAESAGGISTICO-AMBIENTALE. Titolare del corso
• Territorial Governance and Spatial Planning Systems. A.A. 2019/20, PIANIFICAZIONE TERRITORIALE, URBANISTICA E PAESAGGISTICO-AMBIENTALE. Titolare del corso

Bachelor of Science

• Atelier Città e Territorio C (modulo di Urbanistica). A.A. 2025/26, ARCHITETTURA. Titolare del corso
• Atelier Città e Territorio C (modulo di Urbanistica). A.A. 2024/25, ARCHITETTURA. Titolare del corso
• Progettare la transizione resiliente di città e territori - Intraprendenti. A.A. 2023/24, INGEGNERIA AEROSPAZIALE. Collaboratore del corso
• Atelier Città e Territorio C (modulo di Urbanistica). A.A. 2023/24, ARCHITETTURA. Titolare del corso
• Atelier Città e Territorio C (modulo di Urbanistica). A.A. 2022/23, ARCHITETTURA. Titolare del corso
• Innovation Ecosystems for Impact - Intraprendenti. A.A. 2021/22, INGEGNERIA AEROSPAZIALE. Collaboratore del corso
• Innovation Ecosystems for Impact - Intraprendenti. A.A. 2021/22, INGEGNERIA AEROSPAZIALE. Titolare del corso
• Innovation Ecosystems for Impact - Intraprendenti. A.A. 2021/22, INGEGNERIA AEROSPAZIALE. Titolare del corso
• Atelier Città e Territorio C (modulo di Urbanistica). A.A. 2021/22, ARCHITETTURA. Titolare del corso
• Atelier Città e Territorio C (modulo di Urbanistica). A.A. 2020/21, ARCHITETTURA. Titolare del corso
• Atelier Città e Territorio C (modulo di Urbanistica). A.A. 2019/20, ARCHITETTURA. Titolare del corso

Projects funded by competitive calls

• DMo4PPL - Digital Education Modules 4 Participatory Planning, (2023-2025) - Responsabile Scientifico
  Erasmus+ Cooperation Partnerships
• SPOT - Sustainable Spatial Planning of Tourism Destinations, (2019-2022) - Responsabile Scientifico
  Erasmus+ Strategic Partnerships

Projects funded by competitive calls

• PRELAB - Precarious Labour in Asia: Exploring Challenges and Solution to Labour Insecurity through Case-Study-Based Evidence from 8 Asian Countries, (2024-2028) - Responsabile Scientifico
  UE-funded research - HE - Excellent Science - MSCA
• - - The new Italian geographies of logistics. Between post-pandemic transition and multi-level policy responses., (2023-2025) - Responsabile Scientifico
  Nationally funded research - PRIN
• GreenFORCE - GREENFORCE: FOSTER RESEARCH EXCELLENCE FOR GREEN TRANSITION IN THE WESTERN BALKANS, (2022-2025) - Responsabile Scientifico
  UE-funded research - HE - Widening Participation and spreading excellence

Projects funded by commercial contracts

• Urban Dimension of Cohesion Policy and other EU programmes- URDICO, (2025-2026) - Responsabile Scientifico
  Commercial Research
• Territorial governance of non-standard geographies (ESPON Service Contract ref 017/2023) , (2023-2025) - Responsabile Scientifico
  Commercial Research
• ESPON Cotella, (2024-2025) - Responsabile Scientifico
  Commercial Research
• Contratto di prestazione di servizi tra il Politecnico di Torino (Area TRIN) e l’ente Turismo Langhe Monferrato Roero per lo svolgimento delle attività di didattica innovativa aventi ad oggetto una Challenge rivolta agli studenti del Politecnico di Torino, nell’ambito dell’iniziativa “Challenge@PoliTo by Firms” dal titolo: Enhanced Mobility for Sustainable Rural Tourism, (2022-2023) - Responsabile Scientifico
  Commercial contracts for the provision of services
• The Role and Future Perspectives of Cohesion Policy in the Planning of Metropolitan Areas and Cities (ESPON METRO) – Additional outreach activities, (2021-2022) - Responsabile Scientifico
  Commercial Research
• espon metro, (2020-2021) - Responsabile Scientifico
  Commercial Research
• Sustainable Urbanisation and land-use Practices in European Regions - SUPER, (2019-2020) - Responsabile Scientifico
  Commercial Research
• Urban-rural connectivity in non-metropolitan regions (URRUC), (2018-2019) - Responsabile Scientifico
  Commercial Research
• Progetto ESPON - acronimo RESSI - Regional Strategies for sustainable and inclusive territorial development, (2016-2017) - Responsabile Scientifico
  Commercial Research
• Progetto ESPON - acronimo COMPASS - Comparative analysis of territorial governance and spatial planning systems in Europe, (2016-2018) - Responsabile Scientifico
  Commercial Research

• Aida Shaneh. Programme in Urban And Regional Development (40^th cycle, 2024-in progress)
• Martina Caputo. Programme in Urban And Regional Development (39^th cycle, 2023-in progress)
• Virginia Pellerey. Programme in Urban And Regional Development (38^th cycle, 2022-in progress)
• Yahya Yasser Mohamed Shaker. Programme in Urban And Regional Development (38^th cycle, 2022-in progress)
  Research subject: Multi-level Meta-Governance of Just Green Transitions in the European Union
  
  Urban and regional governance
  Spatial planning
  Urban and regional governance
  Spatial planning
  Urban and regional governance
  Spatial planning
• Giorgio Tosato. Programme in Urban And Regional Development (37^th cycle, 2021-2025)
  Thesis: Urban evolution: a dynamic model for development, sustainability and resilience
• Donato Casavola. Programme in Urban And Regional Development (36^th cycle, 2020-2024)
  Thesis: Characters in Search of an Author. Unfolding the territorial governance of Italian Metropolitan Cities.
  
  Spatial planning
  Climate change
  Sustainable land use and territorial resilience
  Urban studies
  Urban and regional governance
• Federica Rotondo. Programme in Urban And Regional Development (35^th cycle, 2019-2023)
  Thesis: REINTERPRETING URBAN TRANSITIONS Spatial conditions, actors and implications in energy renovation of public housing neighbourhoods. Insights from Italy and France

• Cotella, G.; Vitale, Brovarone (2021)
  Rethinking urbanisation after COVID-19. What role for the EU cohesion policy?. In: TOWN PLANNING REVIEW, vol. 92, pp. 411-418. ISSN 1478-341X
  Contributo su Rivista
• Cotella, G.; Evers, D.; Janin Rivolin, U.; Berisha, E.; Solly, A. (2020)
  ESPON SUPER – Sustainable Urbanisation and land-use Practices in European Regions. A GUIDE TO SUSTAINABLE URBANISATION AND LAND-USE. Luxembourg, ESPON EGTC, P. 108. ISBN: 978-29-197-9540-6
  Libro
• Cotella, Giancarlo (2020)
  How Europe hits home? The impact of European Union policies on territorial governance and spatial planning. In: GÉOCARREFOUR, vol. 94, pp. 1-23. ISSN 1627-4873
  Contributo su Rivista
• Cotella, Giancarlo; Purkarthofer, Eva; Faludi, Andreas (2020)
  The poverty of territorialism and the future of European spatial integration. In: REGIONAL STUDIES, pp. 1-6. ISSN 0034-3404
  Contributo su Rivista
• Vitale Brovarone, Elisabetta; Cotella, Giancarlo (2020)
  Improving Rural Accessibility: A Multilayer Approach. In: SUSTAINABILITY, vol. 12, pp. 1-20. ISSN 2071-1050
  Contributo su Rivista
• Solly, Alys; Berisha, Erblin; Cotella, Giancarlo; JANIN RIVOLIN YOCCOZ, Umberto (2020)
  How Sustainable Are Land Use Tools? A Europe-Wide Typological Investigation. In: SUSTAINABILITY, vol. 12, pp. 1-21. ISSN 2071-1050
  Contributo su Rivista
• Bottero, Marta; Caprioli, Caterina; Cotella, Giancarlo; Santangelo, Marco (2019)
  Sustainable Cities: A Reflection on Potentialities and Limits based on Existing Eco-Districts in Europe. In: SUSTAINABILITY, vol. 11, pp. 1-22. ISSN 2071-1050
  Contributo su Rivista
• Tulumello, S.; Cotella, G.; Othengrafen, F. (2019)
  Spatial planning and territorial governance in Southern Europe between economic crisis and austerity policies. In: INTERNATIONAL PLANNING STUDIES, vol. 25, pp. 72-87. ISSN 1356-3475
  Contributo su Rivista
• Cotella, G. (2019)
  The Urban Dimension of EU Cohesion Policy. In: Territorial Cohesion. The Urban Dimension / Eduardo Medeiros, S.L., Springer, pp. 133-151. ISBN: 978-3-030-03385-9
  Contributo in Volume
• Berisha, Erblin; Colic, Natasa; Cotella, Giancarlo; Nedovic-Budic, Zorica (2018)
  Mind the Gap: Spatial Planning Systems in the Western Balkan Region. In: TRANSACTIONS OF THE ASSOCIATION OF EUROPEAN SCHOOLS OF PLANNING, vol. 2, pp. 47-62. ISSN 2566-2147
  Contributo su Rivista
• Cotella, Giancarlo, a cura di (2018)
  European Territorial Governance and Spatial Planning Practices. Warsaw, Polish Academy of Science, P. 131
  Curatele
• Berisha, Erblin; Cotella, Giancarlo (2016)
  Territorial Governance and Spatial Planning in the Western Balkans between Transition, European Integration and Path-Dependency. In: JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN SOCIAL RESEARCH, vol. 2, pp. 23-51. ISSN 2312-251X
  Contributo su Rivista
• Cotella, Giancarlo; JANIN RIVOLIN YOCCOZ, Umberto; Santangelo, Marco (2016)
  Transferring ‘good’ territorial governance across Europe. Opportunities and barriers. In: Territorial Governance across Europe. Pathways, practices and prospects / Schmitt P., Van Well L., London and New York, Routledge, pp. 238-253. ISBN: 978-1-13-886087-2
  Contributo in Volume
• Cotella, Giancarlo; Crivello, Silvia (2016)
  “The macroregional geopolitics of energy security: towards a new energy world order?”. In: Low carbon energy security from a European perspective / S.N., S.L., Elsevier, pp. 81-108. ISBN: 9780128029701
  Contributo in Volume
• Valkenburg, Govert; Cotella, Giancarlo (2016)
  Governance of energy transitions: about inclusion and closure in complex sociotechnical problems. In: ENERGY, SUSTAINABILITY AND SOCIETY, vol. 6, pp. 1-11. ISSN 2192-0567
  Contributo su Rivista
• Cotella, Giancarlo; Othengrafen, F.; Papaioannou, A.; Tulumello, S. (2015)
  Socio-political and socio-spatial implications of the economic crisis and austerity politics in Southern European cities. In: Cities in Crisis. Socio-spatial impacts of the economic crisis in Southern European cities / Jorg Knieling, Frank Othengrafen, Londra, Routledge, pp. 27-47. ISBN: 978-1-13-885002-6
  Contributo in Volume
• Cotella, Giancarlo; JANIN RIVOLIN YOCCOZ, Umberto (2015)
  Europeizzazione del governo del territorio: un modello analitico. In: TERRITORIO, vol. 73, pp. 127-134. ISSN 1825-8689
  Contributo su Rivista
• Caruso, Nadia; Cotella, Giancarlo; Pede, ELENA CAMILLA (2015)
  From crisis to crisis: Dynamics of change and emerging models of governance in the Turin metropolitan area. In: Cities in Crisis. Socio-spatial impacts of the economic crisis in Southern European cities / Jorg Knieling, Frank Othengrafen, Londra, Routledge, pp. 257-277. ISBN: 978-1-13-885002-6
  Contributo in Volume
• Cotella, Giancarlo (2014)
  Spatial Planning in Poland between European Influences and Dominant Market Forces. In: SPATIAL PLANNING SYSTEMS AND PRACTICES IN EUROPE. A comparative perspective on continuity and changes / Reimer M., Getimis P., Blotevogel H.H., London & New York, Routledge, Taylor and ancis Group on UK, pp. 255-277. ISBN: 9780415727235
  Contributo in Volume
• Stead, D.; Cotella, Giancarlo, a cura di (2011)
  Differential Europe: Domestic Actors and Their Role in Shaping Spatial Planning Systems. S.L., S.N., P. 104
  Curatele
• Cotella, Giancarlo; JANIN RIVOLIN YOCCOZ, Umberto (2011)
  Europeanization of Spatial Planning through Discourse and Practice in Italy. In: DISP, vol. 3/2011, pp. 43-54. ISSN 0251-3625
  Contributo su Rivista
• Adams, N; Cotella, Giancarlo; Nunes, R., a cura di (2011)
  Territorial Development, Cohesion and Spatial Planning. Knowledge and Policy Development in an Enlarged EU. LONDON, Routledge, P. 488. ISBN: 9780415551946
  Curatele