In a world that is both rapidly urbanising and globalising, it is widely acknowledged that it is crucial to facilitate urban education that is cross, inter or trans-disciplinary; based on global but also on local knowledge and engaged with live projects taught through active learning approaches defined as challenge-based, or project-oriented that facilitate overcoming traditional barriers: the institutional and discipline-based contexts.
RUSTIK
RUSTIK runs 14 Living Labs to foster sustainability transitions in rural communities RUSTIK (Rural Sustainability Transitions through Integration of Knowledge for improved policy processes) is a four-year transdisciplinary research project. The project aims to enable rural communities’ actors and policymakers to design better strategies, initiatives and policies fostering sustainability transitions of rural areas. The [...]
Urban Shift
Urban Shift is a project aimed at reaching the goals of the EU Green Deal by providing ground-breaking innovations for fighting climate change in urban areas. The project will create a Living Ecosystem where educational institutions and businesses implement a Living Curriculum for transdisciplinary start-up education with learners of a diverse background. Over the [...]
Soil Health BENCHMARKS
The Soil Health and Food (SH&F) mission board has set the goal to have 75% of European soils healthy or significantly improved by 2030. This is in line with other important European initiatives such as the Green Deal and EU Farm-to-Fork Strategy, as well as with preparations for a new EU law on the protection [...]
Innovation Alliance in Circular Design (CiD)
Design plays a pivotal role in achieving climate-neutral cities in Europe, facilitating a green and resilient transition of urban areas. This transition, which encompasses both the improvement of cities as living spaces and their potential as catalysts for change, is high on the agenda. The circular economy presents innovative pathways to foster creative design [...]
Intrepid (COST Action)
INTREPID is a 32 country network with the overall aim to better understand how to achieve more efficient and effective interdisciplinary research in Europe, in order to enhance our capacity to meet contemporary global (urban) challenges characterised by increasing complexity and uncertainty.In order to better understand how to achieve more efficient and effective interdisciplinary research [...]
BUILD Solutions
There is growing recognition and awareness that nature can help provide viable solutions that use and deploy the properties of natural ecosystems and the services that they provide in a smart, 'engineered' way (EC). These living solutions provide sustainable, cost-effective, multi-purpose and flexible alternatives for various objectives. Working with nature, rather than against it, [...]