Urban GoodCamp Erasmus Project

Project Title

Urban GoodCamp

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

The Urban GoodCamp (UCAMP) project aims to empower Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) and their urban stakeholders to tackle pressing urban challenges by creating and actively engaging urban communities of practice, developing and implementing multidisciplinary learning interventions for university students, young researchers and life-long learners to develop real-life solutions to pressing urban challenges. The project will be conducted in seven European cities – and six of which are capital cities, grouped in three areas of urban focus: Circular economy – Waste Management, Urban Biodiversity, and Sustainable Communities. We believe that success in urban development can only be achieved through an integrated approach, where strong partnerships between local citizens, civil society, industry and various levels of government are deemed necessary. In this, the role of HEIs are crucial in taking the role of anchor organisations, and leading transformational change in their urban environments. The project will achieve its goal through the following steps & activities: (1) reviewing and analysing successful urban challenges, through expert interviews and collecting case atudies on learning models; (2) building Urban Innovators Communities and co-defining and validating the urban challenges for the learaning interventions; (3) developing the Bootcamp workshop, innovation tours, mentorship methodology, and train-the-trainer schemes tand plot-testing them in 7 European cities; (4) organising and delivering 7 Local Urban GoodCamp showcase events, 24+ cascading of mini-boutique workshops, and hosting of an international 1.5 mini-conference, the European Urban Challenges Jam where the project results are disseminated and showcased to international audience and further discussions on urban challenges are raised. The project is expected to position HEIs in the role of facilitators for urban co-operation and co-creation in tackling societal challenges.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 999941 Eur

Project Coordinator

FUNDACION PARA EL CONOCIMIENTO MADRIMASD & Country: ES

Project Partners

• UNIVERSITA CA’ FOSCARI VENEZIA
• AALTO KORKEAKOULUSAATIO SR
• INOVACIJSKO-RAZVOJNI INSTITUT UNIVERZE V LJUBLJANI
• ADVANCIS-BUSINESS SERVICES, LDA
• STICHTING HOGESCHOOL VAN AMSTERDAM
• BESPOKE APS
• INSTITUT MINES-TELECOM