Empowering climate resilience Erasmus Project

Project Title

Empowering climate resilience

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 : Capacity Building in higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

By focusing on urban resilience, CARE addresses one of the most urgent topics in EU and Latin America (LA). Most LA countries are dealing with climate risk management issues, but they lack a holistic and common approach to resilience. International cooperation seems then the best-fit environment where to develop joint learning tools, go in depth on peculiar research and deliver support to policy makers. An urban resilience framework calls for a process that brings together diverse departments and sectors to identify appropriate measures, responses and recovery. It needs transversal competences, e-skills, creativity and flexibility. CARE aims to challenge those issues by promoting HEI staff’s and students’ interdisciplinary skills by developing innovative educational approaches to planning. Furthermore, it aims to bring the challenge within the core of urban municipalities by directly and indirectly training professionals and officers to shape resilient policies.To attain this goals, CARE proposes an alternation of desk activities and workshops aimed at the collective production, development, sharing, testing and dissemination of Open Educational Resources (OERs), based on the use of collaborative Conceptual Maps. Being publicly available on the CARE e-learning platform in English and Spanish, they are expected to empower programme courses in HEIs (CARE Cmaps) and provide targeted training for professionals, public officers, policy makers (Open Training Modules).CARE outputs will challenge the complex and interconnecting issues related to urban resilience. It will operate to transfer resilience conceptual issues into operational capabilities in local government, civil society and professional communities.Finally CARE aims at establishing a network among LA, Europe and outside, to improve their educational capacities on urban resilience, as well as to transfer CARE results and findings to an operational policy perspective at different territorial levels.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 970200 Eur

Project Coordinator

UNIVERSIDAD PABLO DE OLAVIDE & Country: ES

Project Partners

• POLIEDRA-CENTRO DI SERVIZIO E CONSULENZA DEL POLITECNICO DI MILANO SUPIANIFICAZIONE AMBIENTALE E TERRITORIALE CONSORZIO
• CENTRO REGIONALE D’INTERVENTO PER LA COOPERAZIONE ONLUS
• UNIVERSITEIT TWENTE
• PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE
• UNIVERSIDAD TECNICA ESTATAL DE QUEVEDO
• UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO PARÁ
• FUNDACAO UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO ABC