ISOCARP institute Academy with the local support of IAP and Citieslab offers capacity-building programmes that provide training and planning education for the middle and higher management of cities and regions. A two-day training programme is designed for 20-30 city and regional planners with 5-10 years of experience. This year programme will provide the participants with an overview of various principles, instruments, and tools used across the globe in order to make the cities responsive to the current challenges of urban growth, metropolitan megalopolises, contested role of human dimension in urban development, and a need for adapting local responses to global challenges.