Unite! Seed Fund 2024 awards funding to three collaborative teaching projects involving Aalto
The Unite! Seed Fund aims to stimulate and support bottom-up proposals by teachers, researchers and students for collaborative activities.
The QUORUM project addresses urban water and climate challenges through interdisciplinary collaboration within Unite! universities
The increasing frequency of natural disasters, especially in relation to water and climate change, emphasises the need to consolidate interdisciplinary collaboration towards transformative sustainable solutions. The project Quest for Urban Obdurate Resilience in Uncertain Milieus (QUORUM) has received funding from the Unite! Seed Fund for Teaching and Learning to design a study module plan addressing water-related urban challenges.
Climate change has turned cities globally into uncertain milieus. This results in increasing pressure on education and research to support through interdisciplinary collaborations towards transformative sustainable solutions. In the QUORUM project, we explore co-designing an interdisciplinary module to address water-related challenges and focus on revisiting urban rivers as culturally embedded components and ecosystem service providers.
鈥淭he Unite! seed fund enabled an interdisciplinary, international team to initiate the QUORUM project, which will explore innovative learning to address resilient water-related solutions within uncertain urban milieus,鈥 says Christine Mady, the project coordinator.
The project鈥檚 outcome is a co-designed graduate-level student module plan, which is offered within different programmes, to support students鈥 collaborative, multicultural, interdisciplinary activities in addressing urban rivers鈥 sustainable transformations.
Partners
The team includes experts from five Unite! partner universities. The team members are actively engaged in interdisciplinary research and teaching related to climate crisis.
- Christine Mady, Project Coordinator, Senior University Lecturer, Aalto University
- Paulo Pinho, Senior University Lecturer, Aalto University
- Elena Comino, Associate Professor, Politecnico di Torino
- S茅rgio Proen莽a, Assistant Professor, Universidade de Lisboa
- 脕lvaro Clua, Tenure-track lecturer, Universitat Polit猫cnica de Catalunya
- Arnold Pears, Professor, Kungliga Tekniska H枚gskolan
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Unite! University Alliance
Aalto University is a member of Unite! alliance together with eight other European universities.
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