The InCITIES Horizon Europe project aims to achieve the transformation of Higher Education Institutions.
This (transformation) includes their surrounding ecosystem, centred around cities’ needs for inclusion, sustainability and resilience.
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.
It allows them to overcome structural, sociocultural, economic, political, and institutional barriers.
The InCITIES project is being developed by a consortium of 5 partners,
representing diverse organizations contributing to cross-border cooperation.
Each partner is bringing unique knowledge, perspectives,
and experiences to tackle Europe’s challenges for the universities and the cities of the future.
In this project, we are educating the next generation of planners and decision-makers.
We make sure students are well-educated about planning and making successful interventions in the cityscape.
Bringing together the best knowledge and practices from Pioneer Alliance partners,
we create a multidisciplinary curriculum to teach students.
Embracing the latest best practices, we integrate the bottom-up Learning by Development approach,
a pedagogical model focusing on training both hard and soft skills.
In the BIP Sustainable Mobility Innovations course, organised and hosted by UNIZA,
we make sure that the knowledge emerges from student interaction and group activities.
My motivation is to expand my sphere of knowledge
and to actually produce an idea that could in term be used in the real world.
Industrial partners, better insights and optimal solutions.
The exchange of expertise and making journeys sustainable.
I believe that active mobility or micromobility
is an inclusive and sustainable solution to move around the city,
but I also believe that the underline infrastructure must be optimized to be able to use it easily.
Calming traffic.
Creation of founded ideas,
the build of knowledge.
The benefits of Learning by Developing is definitely the examination of each other proposals
and therefore the exchange of humanitarian and academic skills.
Real world solutions, learning by developing.
Real life problem, hands on experience and practical solutions.
So, how can we make our higher education institutions more inclusive, sustainable and resilient?
Visit our website at www.incities.eu to learn more about the InCITIES project and all our latest activities.
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