SURE: Sustainable Urban Rehabilitation in Europe Erasmus Project

Project Title

SURE: Sustainable Urban Rehabilitation in Europe

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Quality and Relevance of Higher Education in Partner Countries

Project Summary

The AIM OF the PROJECT was improving quality and increasing adequacy of educational offer of EU Higher Education Institutions to the needs of society through the development of multidisciplinary joint MSc curriculum in English – SURE: Sustainable Urban Rehabilitation. Now, in a rapidly changing world, the issue of sustainable development is one of the most important problems of modern countries and societies. Sustainable Urban Rehabilitation is direction that embeds architecture, urbanism and cultural heritage in context of requirements and condition of doctrine of sustainable development. The need for the project directly and closely followed contemporary needs. Spatial, demographic, ecological development require professionals who will be able to customize architecture and urbanism to the specifics of these conditions. The main need of modern societies is protection, revitalization and modernization of already built environment and buildings, and each country has different experiences in these fields.
PARTNER UNIVERSITIES:
• Politechnika Lubelska, Poland
• Universita degli Studi di Roma la Sapienza, Italy
• Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
• Vilniaus Gedimino Technikos Universitetas, Lithuania
NON-ACADEMIC PARTNERS:
• ICOMOS Polska, Poland
• Fondazione Romualdo del Biando, Italy
• Fondazione Flaminia, Italy.
The partnership is complementary, each partner brought significant added value to the project. Established partnership took maximum advantage of experience and expertise of partners in order to increase quality and relevance of HE not only in the countries involved in project implementation, but in the entire EU.
Implemented ACTIVITIES:
1. Needs analysis in terms of contents of curricula in the field of architecture, urban planning, heritage protection and sustainable development:
– Collection and analysis of information about labour market requirements and practical needs in order to better attune joint SURE curriculum to requirements of labour market and praxis
– Analysis of curricula in field of architecture, urban planning and conservation of heritage in Poland, Italy, Spain and Lithuania in order to determine detailed requirements for multidisciplinary joint SURE curriculum
– Elaboration of Best practices handbook “Contemporary realities and needs of sustainable urban rehabilitation” presenting results of analysis conducted, examples of best practice and guidelines for attuning curricula to current requirements of labour market.
2. Comprehensive elaboration of joint curriculum for SURE based on EU best practice:
– Elaboration of Model programme of SURE – plan of study for 3 modules
– Elaboration of coherent SURE curriculum (syllabi, learning outcomes, etc.)
– Elaboration of didactic materials.
3. Pilot implementation of particular courses of SURE curriculum:
– Conducting teaching of particular courses of SURE curriculum
– Critical analysis of pilot implementation
– Attuning the elaborated SURE curriculum in accordance to conclusions resulting from pilot implementation and conducted critical analysis
4. Multidirectional dissemination of project.
SURE Consortium developed modern, innovative curriculum for Master studies in Architecture, giving high quality learning opportunity, attuned to requirements of labour market, modern trends and doctrine of sustainable development. Thanks to this, the universities obtain the possibility of educating new generation of architects who understand need for and objectives of sustainable development, both in terms of architecture and urban planning and in terms of society, as well as protection of heritage.
INTELLECTUAL OUTPUTS:
• Best Practices Handbook “Contemporary realities and needs of sustainable urban rehabilitation”
• Model programme of SURE: Sustainable Urban Rehabilitation study
• SURE: Sustainable Urban Rehabilitation multidisciplinary joint MSc curriculum
• Didactic materials for SURE
• SURE e-learning Space
• SURE Knowledge Exchange Platform.
PROJECT RESULTS:
• Permanent cooperation network
• Continuous transfer of knowledge, experiences and good practice
• Joint elaboration of new project proposals
SURE project contributed to the increase of quality and relevance of Higher Education in countries participating in project, and in longer time perspective it may contribute to increase of quality and relevance of Higher Education in the entire Europe and even worldwide.
Long-term impact of SURE Project is contribution to the implementation of modernization agenda of HE through:
• broadened educational offer of European universities
• increasing attainment levels to provide the graduates and researchers Europe needs
• improving quality and relevance of higher education
• strengthening quality through cross-border cooperation
• supporting internationalisation of European HE.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 363762 Eur

Project Coordinator

POLITECHNIKA LUBELSKA & Country: PL

Project Partners

• POLSKI KOMITET NARODOWY MIEDZYNARODOWEJ RADY OCHRONY ZABYTKOW – ICOMOS
• Fondazione Romualdo Del Bianco
• UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA
• FLAMINIA
• UNIVERSIDAD POLITECNICA DE MADRID
• VILNIAUS GEDIMINO TECHNIKOS UNIVERSITETAS