The workshop aimed to celebrate the World Town Planning Day, and ‎strengthen the relationship and partnerships between the University's ‎Department of Urban Planning Engineering and local and international ‎urban and regional planning institutions.‎

The workshop included several activities, which aimed to create a space ‎in which all planners and community stakeholders can join together to ‎promote and spread awareness of the ‎importance of the profession of ‎urban planning and the role of urban planners in the modern society as ‎active implementers bridging facilitation and consensus building.‎

The workshop was attended by planning professionals, academics and ‎university students to raise awareness of the importance of planning for ‎sustainable communities.‎

It included discussions on how to link the education policy to the labor ‎market outcomes, the policies which the Faculty of Engineering and ‎Information Technology administer at An-Najah University to prepare ‎students to enter the labor force, as well as to equip them with the skills ‎to engage in lifelong learning experiences, and the role and impact of ‎public-private partnerships in education.‎

Moreover, the workshop discussed the value of planning for creating ‎sustainable and healthy places and discuss local and international ‎examples as well as ideas for promoting healthy urban planning. ‎

A group of the Department of Urban Planning Engineering's students ‎gave presentations about their practical projects which involved ‎geospatial technology to diagnose and solve problems in some ‎Palestinian cities. ‎