Knowledge Alliance for Evidence-Based Urban Practices Erasmus Project

Project Title

Knowledge Alliance for Evidence-Based Urban Practices

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 : Knowledge Alliances for higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

KAEBUP’s main objective is to create an international educational and training method offering participants the opportunity to engage with professional environments, learning how research can innovate professional practice and what businesses in the field of planning, architecture and urban design require from academia. Successful enterprises in Europe have made research outputs the core of their practice to address pressing urban challenges including sustainability, mobility, health and social cohesion. Such practices are sought after by designers and authorities to ensure successful and sustainable results in urban design and governance.KAEBUP’s partners comprise HEIs, NGOs and enterprises from different European cities, who have expertise of evidence-based design and wish to strengthen the links between businesses and HEIs to benefit from the tools that research can provide to enterprises and from the experience of evidence-based practice. Cooperation between KAEBUP’s partners will be key to addressing current needs and developing future educational systems, providing students with the skills to enter the professional world and inspiring HEI staff to innovate through research.KAEBUP will achieve its objective by implementing three ‘pathways to evidence-based urban practice’:1. Innovating learning and teaching through knowledge exchange and skills development working on real-life urban projects.2. Understanding and developing business models for evidence-based urban practices.3. Co-creating urban knowledge through multiple modes of exchange and involvement of the triple helix in teaching, research and practice.KAEBUP will foster entrepreneurial mind-sets among HEI students and staff, and benefit businesses through broader access to research outputs and clearer communication of how academia can support them. The Alliance will also produce clear and transferable results in relation to how urban studies curricula can best support transversal skills development.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 999961 Eur

Project Coordinator

UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS & Country: CY

Project Partners

• ANDRE DIAS ARAUJO – ARQUITECTURA EDESIGN LDA
• STUDIO SCHIATTARELLA E ASSOCIATI SRL
• SF:IUS – SOCIJALNI RUB:ZANIMLJIVE NEISPRICANE PRICE
• ALA PLANNING PARTNESHIP (ENVIRONMENT) LTD
• UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PARMA
• UNIVERSIDADE DO PORTO
• ISUFITALY