Save the Date: Rebuilding a Place to Call Home: Resilient Cities & Regenerative Neighbourhoods. 5th Annual Symposium 16–17 October 2026 | Lviv, Ukrainian Catholic University, and online

Four years into full-scale war, Ukraine's communities, businesses, planners and architects continue to rebuild. Questions mount: who benefits, what endures, and what gets built differently? 
The 2026 symposium brings together researchers, politicians and practitioners around four directions for debate:Social Dimension of Resilience: 
● Justice Throughout Recovery — organising recovery in the interests of vulnerable groups, grounded in the everyday economy of care rather than abstract indicators
● Comprehensive Picture of Urban Resilience — planning beyond a 1–3–5 year horizon to capture project synergies and progress toward a sustainable city
● Spatializing Justice amid Wartime Transformations — advancing recovery beyond building back, through new design processes, values and implementable standards
● Holistic renovation of Socialist-era districts and housing — making existing built fabric and communities ready for the future in ecological, social and spatial terms
The symposium will open with the presentation of the proposed new Urban Code of Ukraine and continue with knowledge-sharing, constructive project critique and policy discussions. Both Ukrainian and international participation is welcome. The event is provided with UA–ENG interpretation throughout. 
Looking forward to seeing you in Lviv and online in October. Keep posted for future updates and registration opening next month! The number of in-person participants is limited, so be the first to register!
The fifth annual symposium is jointly organised by the Centre for Land and Housing Research at Kharkiv School of Architecture, the School of Public Governance at Ukrainian Catholic University, Ro3kvit Urban Coalition for Ukraine, the GIZ projects EU4ClimateResilience and JGURA.EU4ClimateResilience is co-financed by the European Union and the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Climate Action, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMUKN) and implemented by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH.
The project “Just and Green Urban Recovery Accelerator (JGURA)" is commissioned on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), co-funded by State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) and implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH.