This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon Europe widening participation and spreading excellence and further supporting actions programmes. Grant agreement ID: 101071330.
Under the scope of the project InCITIES, ISCTE is organizing a Blended Intensive Programme (BIP)/school pilot entitled Cities Futures – Interdisciplinary Challenges, that will run from the end of October 2024 to January 2025.
What:
Cities Futures - Interdisciplinary Challenges, within the wider topic of Inclusive, Sustainable and Resilient Cities.
Based on the principles of the Learning by Developing (LbD) pedagogical model, the BIP/school pilot includes modules, but not only, on:
Futurism - cities foresight
Information, Data Visualization and Accessibility for User Decision Making
Design thinking for envisioning cities futures focused on the LbD challenges
Transport innovation - Sustainable Urban Development
Human centred Artificial Intelligence
Sensing mobility data
Intermediate presentations of the challenges proposed by the associated partners
Hackathon Future Cities From Vivid Reality: Inclusive and Sustainability Challenges in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area
Where:
Hybrid format with the duration of 12 weeks: 9 online modules (2h each), followed by 1 week on-site (20h)
When:
The ISCTE winter school pilot happens in the 1st semester of 2024-2025 academic year and is scheduled for end of October 2024 to January 2025.
The on-site course in Lisbon will be held on week of 20th to 24th of January 2025.
To Whom:
All educational levels - Target of at least 15 bachelor, master and/or PhD students, including some from partnering institutions (with Erasmus+ BIP travel and accommodation funding).
The maximum number of participants is 30.
6 ECTS, i.e. the equivalent of 150 working hours, including reading, attending online and on-site course, related visits, and preparing contributions
Who:
ISCTE: Coordinator, host, and content provider;
LAUREA - LbD process support and content provider;
UNIZA - content provider;
How:
ISCTE school pilot focuses on Interdisciplinary Challenges related to Cities Futures towards developing consciousness and agency for building Cities Futures.
Concrete and authentic real-life challenges proposed by the InCITIES Associated Partners: Comboios de Portugal, Wegenblocks, and Inovar Autismo, through putting in practice the LbD pedagogical model.
Participants will present the results in the final in-presence session of the Hackathon Future Cities From Vivid Reality: Inclusive and Sustainability Challenges in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area.