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The InCITIES Horizon Europe project aims to achieve the transformation of Higher Education Institutions.

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This (transformation) includes their surrounding ecosystem, centred around cities’ needs for inclusion, sustainability and resilience.

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It addresses the European challenges of cities with a specific focus on countries with a lower participation rate in European programs, such as Portugal and Slovakia.

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It allows them to overcome structural, sociocultural, economic, political, and institutional barriers.

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The InCITIES project is being developed by a consortium of 5 partners,

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representing diverse organizations contributing to cross-border cooperation.

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Each partner is bringing unique knowledge, perspectives,

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and experiences to tackle Europe’s challenges for the universities and the cities of the future.

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In this project, we are educating the next generation of planners and decision-makers.

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We make sure students are well-educated about planning and making successful interventions in the cityscape.

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Bringing together the best knowledge and practices from Pioneer Alliance partners,

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we create a multidisciplinary curriculum to teach students.

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Embracing the latest best practices, we integrate the bottom-up Learning by Development approach,

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a pedagogical model focusing on training both hard and soft skills.

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In the BIP Sustainable Mobility Innovations course, organised and hosted by UNIZA,

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we make sure that the knowledge emerges from student interaction and group activities.

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My motivation is to expand my sphere of knowledge

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and to actually produce an idea that could in term be used in the real world.

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Industrial partners, better insights and optimal solutions.

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The exchange of expertise and making journeys sustainable.

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I believe that active mobility or micromobility

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is an inclusive and sustainable solution to move around the city,

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but I also believe that the underline infrastructure must be optimized to be able to use it easily.

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Calming traffic.

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Creation of founded ideas,

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the build of knowledge.

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The benefits of Learning by Developing is definitely the examination of each other proposals

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and therefore the exchange of humanitarian and academic skills.

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Real world solutions, learning by developing.

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Real life problem, hands on experience and practical solutions.

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So, how can we make our higher education institutions more inclusive, sustainable and resilient?

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Visit our website at www.incities.eu to learn more about the InCITIES project and all our latest activities.

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