By focusing on urban resilience, InCLIMATE addresses one of the new priorities of the Erasmus Programme and one of the most urgent topics in the EU, where most countries are dealing with climate risk management issues, but lack a holistic and common approach to resilience. Higher Education Institutions (HEI) have an important responsibility in delivering this common approach.
The project aims to increase HEI staff’s and students’ interdisciplinary skills through the development of innovative educational approaches to planning and allied disciplines to rise to the challenge posed by Climate Change. Furthermore, it aims to bring the challenge within the core of urban governance, by directly and indirectly training professionals and officers to shape resilient policies. To attain these goals, the project proposes an alternation of desk activities and workshops targeting both teaching staff and students, aimed at the collective production, development, sharing, testing and dissemination of Open Educational Resources (OERs), based on the use of collaborative Concept Maps.