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Abstract. This paper examines the way the planning education is taught and examines the recent trends in the curricula of planning education institutions. The introduction of changing economic systems and planning in the field of education is discussed against these changes. Additionally, the evolution in the planner's role and how it affects the planning education is discussed. The paper is addressing trends and challenges the countries and their planning changes are facing in 21st century. The trends such as increasing globalization, fuzziness of spatial structures and their borders, complexity and uncertainty and the growing interconnectedness of the world are discussed. Another aim is to prepare a common ground, a platform at the university level for scientific cooperation in the field of planning. This study aims at examining the situation of planning in the contemporary world. The identified challenges include the need for more flexibility in planning and planning education, the emergence of innovations and creativity in planners and planning projects, the necessity of promoting soft skills while keeping the existing technical nature of planning and lastly, the need for more interdisciplinary work. The final part of the paper is discussing the future planning education and recommendations on how the schools of planning should reflect these changes. IntroductionThe human society has changed in the last century more than in the past two thousand years. The rapid pace of change in the society is not likely to decrease in the near future and the gradual transformation of society is expected to continue. These alternations have affected nearly all aspects of life and people's professions. The planning profession is not an exception in terms of the alternations. Although the planning in the modern world is perceived as relatively new discipline with background in sanitary situation in the Great Britain at the turn of the previous centuries, the roots of planning cities is traced back to the ancient times. The challenges of planning are different across the course of time and they reflect the arrangements of each society. Such differences do not accidentally differ through the time, but are also based on geographic location, for example the tasks for planning are varied in the developed world and in the developing world.