Using the recent conceptualizations of society and culture and taking into consideration historical determinism and the various levels of identity (civilization, region, nation, city), the TEMA European Master’s Program offers a unique course of study that aims to train specialists equipped with the necessary critical skills for completing or renewing the traditional methods of the territorial development.

During the last few decades, several methods have been used together in order to modify the territorial organization of the European countries in a more general sense (old and new countries, future candidates of the EU, and different buffers zones together with zones of conflicts and cooperation), and to make a political and administrative mesh of forms of identity and citizenship developed by inhabitants. European integration, free circulation and communication, as well as the democratic aspirations for the decentralization of the administration and political representation, can lead us to question the relevance of frontiers, borders and existing territorial frameworks on the one hand, and the emergence of models of territorial structures on the other. The territorial divisions that form the European space and its neighbouring territories are burning questions for researchers and political decision-makers due to the urgency of the problems caused by European integration and regional politics, ethno-national and religious conflicts, and other very political issues such as environmental protection and exploitation of natural resources. The development of new urban, rural or regional policies, the acuity of the questions concerning the administration of cities and the environment, and the administrative and territorial recompositions require from the decision makers a historically and socially sensitive approach to the development projects. The TEMA European Master Course offers this new interdisciplinary expertise, more and more claimed by professionals of territorial development.