Eco-friendly Built Environment

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The ECOBUILT project responds to an increasing national and Europe-wide demand for professionals with a focus on sustainability who can manage the complexities of the planning process in various fields and at different scales. The objectives of the project are the following: To design an integrated joint Master’s programme in Eco-friendly Built Environment. The programme will be designed in cooperation with associate partners and will be practice-oriented on the one hand and flexible in terms of individualized learning paths, while on the other hand being adaptive in terms of inclusiveness; To develop common integrated regulations and rules concerning admission, selection, student performance, and degree awarding; To ensure QA of the programme with regard to current European Standards of QA; To develop a promotion strategy to recruit talented students from around the world. The project involves four universities from various European regions and thus introduces the transnational dimension: Riga Technical University (coordinator), University of Genoa (Italy), University of Belgrade (Serbia), and Southern Federal University (Russia). The concept of the project is to develop an integrated Master’s programme in Eco-friendly Built Environment aimed at training highly qualified professionals who will be able to design and restore buildings and landscapes in urban and rural settings with minimal impact on human well-being and the environment. The graduates, while having acquired basic/comprehensive knowledge and competences in Eco-friendly built environment (engineering module, circular economy module, sustainability module) will gain more specific skills in one of the programme concentration tracks: green architecture, urban design, landscape design, and renovation design. The project participants will deploy various tools and mechanisms to ensure project sustainability, QA of the deliverables and dissemination of best practice.