CO-LAND

Architecture & Planning - Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

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CO-LAND Inclusive coastal landscapes: activating green and blue infrastructure for sustainable development of the urban-land interface.The overall goal of the CO_LAND project is to make higher education more relevant for society. We want to equip students not only with relevant knowledge, methods and tools, but also encourage them in building visionary and democratic mindsets. Planning and design decisions need to derive their legitimacy from a grounded understanding of local needs, values and goals. Emerging professionals must be trained to develop transformative planning competencies. Next to envisioning alternative futures, they also need to be able to empower community members to take an active role in shaping those futures. This strategic partnership will therefore develop an international blended learning environment in which students from various planning disciplines can qualify themselves for addressing the specific spatial, social and environmental challenges of coastal landscapes in Europe with integrative, creative and inclusive methods.The consortium will develop and test an open online course during which learners will collaborate in interdisciplinary and virtual teams on local case studies. Along with this, relevant theories, methods and tools will be introduced in the form of online lectures and open educational resources. In this context, staff trainings will be conducted in order to enable all teachers to conduct student centred and interactive lectures and seminars in a virtual classroom. The consortium will further organise four subsequent intensive study programmes in partnership with coastal communities in Romania, Estonia, Belgium and Italy. The CO LAND method and case studies will be documented and disseminated. The CO-LAND Project has been (partially) funded by the ERASMUS+ grant program of the European Union under grant no. 2017-1-RO01-KA203-037161. Do you prefer to follow us on Facebook? Here is our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/CoLandEU/