The 5th Alumi Award European Urban Studies honors two excellent Master theses. Six jury members appraised five theses that had been nominated for the award. Gordana Gocieva and Nina Gjorgon convinced the jury unanimously with their thesis ”Integrative Potential of the Fringe Belt as Heterotopic Enclave in the Fragmented City – Debar Maalo, Skopje, Case Study” and won the first prize, doted with 300 Euro. The thesis “Die Bedeutung der Leipzig Charta für integrierte Stadtentwicklung in Europa” by Eva Nickel has been awarded with the second prize, doted with 200 Euro. The jury’s decision was made public at the semester-opening party on the 13.10.2009 at the Institute for European Urban Studies.