Rehabilitation of the Built Environment in the Context of Smart City and Sustainable Development Concepts for Knowledge Transfer and Lifelong Learning Erasmus Project

Project Title

Rehabilitation of the Built Environment in the Context of Smart City and Sustainable Development Concepts for Knowledge Transfer and Lifelong Learning

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 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning

Project Summary

The RE-BUILT project was addressing on further developing, evaluation, managing, teaching and disseminating of a new post-graduate intensive study programme in Civil and Environmental Engineering, to express self-creativity, innovate with technology, actively participate in collaborative built environment problem solving for the development of a co-operative framework of indicators for the environment performance of buildings. The RE-BUILT project reflected in an interactive, transnational and practical way all the steps, tools, resources, development and improvement done for the post-graduate intensive study programme “Sustainable Rehabilitation of the Built Environment” to be implemented as a current post-graduate program among the accredited study programmes running at the partner universities of the consortium.
The main group to whom the RE-BUILT addresses was formed by the graduates in Civil and Environmental Engineering, teached them to re-consider, develop and rehabilitate the old/historical buildings.
The RE-BUILT project joined an international professional team consisting of 8 universities: “Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University of Iasi, Romania; University of Natural Resources and Life Science Vienna, Austria; University of Orleans, France; University of Seville, Spain; University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, Italy; University of Maribor, Slovenia; Higher School of Transport “Todor Kableshkov” Sofia, Bulgaria; Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal..
The project activities related to 9 intellectual outputs: Collecting and reviewing written resources that map the knowledge triangle for transferring research and innovation on sustainable rehabilitation of the built environment (O1); establishing legal, institutional and regulatory framework for the advancement and management of a post-graduate development programme for professionals to gather knowledge and competencies on the rehabilitation of the built environment (O2); critique for establishing requirements that map out the knowledge triangle for transferring research and innovation on sustainable rehabilitation of the built environment, after reviewing written resources (O3); preparing lectures for teaching in intensive study programmes as for transferring research and innovation through knowledge (O4); preparation for meetings with practitioners and experts (O5); knowledge transfer of research and innovation on project’s website (O6); virtual evaluation of the activity developed in transnational meetings, short term intensive study programmes comprising learning, one-day workshops, meetings with researchers and practitioners, and in both conferences organized by the RE-BUILT team (O7); papers, posters, promotional materials, printed and e-versions, paper brochures, workshop demonstrations, dissemination-related items such as articles, press releases, etc. produced within the project’s life cycle (O8); “Knowledge Transfer on Sustainable Rehabilitation and Risk Management in Built Environment” – book of proceedings for the final conference (O9). This has 17 components: 3 transnational meetings, 1 conference and 2 short-term intensive study programmes were done in the first year, 2 transnational meetings and 4 short-term intensive study program were developed in the second year, 2 transnational meetings, 2 short-term intensive study program and 1 conference were fostered in the third year. There have been organized 8 short term teaching/learning activities in intense study programmes, one at each partner institution. Five of them addressed to 16 local master students, while three of them addresed to 16 selected mobile students, two students from each partner institution. Participants (master students) followed a two-week module of lectures, which is part of the post-graduate developing program “Sustinable Rehabilitation of the Built Environment and Risk Management” considered for approval at the end of the RE-BUILT project.
The RE-BUILT consortium targeted a large group of higher education providers, researchers and practitioners and has a significant impact on the participants, their organizations, students, practitioners, developing the right tools and methodologies for their practices, linking the needs of the local environment with international education and research.
RE-BUILT lumped practical interactions in building and environmental fields with the new and innovative knowledge transfer on this line, making knowledge a close interface with everyone’s experience, allowing academics as well as students to meditate their understanding and misunderstanding related to the sustainable rehabilitation of the built environment. The long term impact targeted multidisciplinary study courses in the participating universities, motivates post-graduate engineers with an increased role in their cities, and overcomes the gap between the study and labour market through an intensive, innovative education.

Project Website

http://www.rebuilt.ce.tuiasi.ro/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 352042 Eur

Project Coordinator

UNIVERSITATEA TEHNICA GHEORGHE ASACHI DIN IASI & Country: RO

Project Partners

• UNIVERZA V MARIBORU
• UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI CASSINO E DEL LAZIO MERIDIONALE
• UNIVERSIDAD DE SEVILLA
• VYSOKE UCENI TECHNICKE V BRNE
• Higher School of Transport “Todor Kableshkov”-Sofia
• UNIVERSITAET FUER BODENKULTUR WIEN
• UNIVERSITE D’ORLEANS