Project BRidGE

Project BRidGE a collaboration-building effort to document past, present, and planned international partnerships among members of global and regional planning associations. Starting with GPEIG members, we plan to expand to all 11 global and regional planning associations under GPEAN, showcasing the latest iteration of the map at the AESOP Young Academics Network Roundtable at the 2026 World Planning Schools Congress. By using an open-access, interactive, updatable, and analyzable network mapping platform, we are developing a living institutional memory of the relationships that connect our field across regions, institutions, and scholars. 

Project BRidGE responds to two urgent needs. First, it offers a tangible mechanism for supporting scholars and institutions across the resource spectrum to find each other to share ideas and build communities of practice — a precondition for the kind of sustained, cross-cultural collaboration and global community impact our members champion. Second, it is a direct response to the current global political climate, in which the deliberate strengthening and expansion of international scholarly ties has become both more difficult and more necessary. At a moment when institutions worldwide are being pressured to turn inward, Project BRidGE demonstrates that GPEIG's commitment to global engagement is not aspirational but active.

We are grateful to have our first GPEIG Student Representative Yuye Zhou, University of California Berkeley, provide essential research support to collect and sort data.