URGENT –
Urban Resilience and Adaptation for India and Mongolia:
curricula, capacity, ICT and stakeholder collaboration to support green & blue infrastructure and nature-based solutions
Objectives
The URGENT’s aim is to promote green & blue infrastructure and nature-based solutions (GBI & NBS) for resilient, climate-friendly, and liveable cities in India and Mongolia through ICT-enhanced tertiary education linked to labor markets & wider stakeholder circles. This aim will be achieved through the following objectives:
To revise and upgrade selected GBI & NBS - relevant BSc, MSc & Ph.D. programs in PIs to make them end-user-oriented & policy-relevant, and develop 6 modules addressing GBI & NBS-related hotspots, that can be used interchangeably in tertiary & LLL education.
To develop shared URGENT Collaborative Learning Platform & online training services of the new generation for qualitative improvement of the education process & academic workflow support among universities & stakeholders across the PCs & EU.
To create sustainable feedback mechanisms for end-users, ensuring adaptive & practice-relevant teaching contents, knowledge co-production opportunities, and stakeholder support to post-project course development & teaching.
To develop capacity for academic mobility, shared experimental facilities, and joint research by PIs & beyond.
Partners Institutes
University of Bremen, Germany
University of Catania Italy
Estonian University of Life Sciences Estonia
Martin Luther University Germany
National University of Mongolia
Khovd University Mongolia
Mongolian University of Life Sciences Mongolia
Urban Planning and Research Institute Mongolia
National Garden Park of Ulaanbaatar Mongolia
Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi India
Nirma University Ahmedabad India
Pondicherry University Pondicherry India
Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences & Technology of Kashmir Srinagar India
National Institute of Urban Affairs New Delhi India
Gujarat International Finance Tec City Company Limited India
