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URGENT (URGENT)

Project URGENT completed ·

URGENT aimed to promote green and blue infrastructure and nature-based solutions (GBI & NBS) for resilient, climate-friendly and liveable cities in India and Mongolia (Partner Countries – PLs) through ICT-enabled higher education linked to labour markets and wider stakeholders. This overarching goal will be achieved through the following points:

  1. Enhancing GBI and NBS relevant BSc, MSc and PhD programmes at partner institutions to make them end-user oriented and policy relevant. A pool of URGENT e-courses will be tailored to the educational needs of science, engineering and planning learners (154 ECTS of new and updated topics openly accessible via e-learning). A URGENT research framework will outline internationally and policy relevant research topics, questions and proposed methodologies.
  2. Develop a collaborative URGENT learning platform and new generation online training services to improve the quality of the educational process and support the academic workflow between universities and stakeholders.
  3. Creating sustainable feedback mechanisms for end-users to ensure adaptable and practice-relevant teaching content, knowledge co-production opportunities and stakeholder support for course development and post-project teaching. The interactive URGENT stakeholder platforms (SIPs) in partner countries will bring together representatives of practice-orientated communities working on GBI and NBS topics. SIPs will be platforms for academia to disseminate innovative ideas and visions for the future and inform evidence-based leadership, while practice partners will contribute their experiences, review curricula, participate in quality assurance mechanisms and support graduates’ entry into the profession.
  4. Develop capacity for academic mobility, sharing of experimental facilities and joint research from partner countries and beyond. URGENT partners will institutionalise their relationships through framework agreements and establish rules for physical and virtual mobility, joint research and thesis supervision, and sharing of research and experimental facilities.

As part of the project, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg has contributed to specific work packages, including the organisation and implementation of an advanced training course on information and communications technology (ICT), participation in a variety of online and offline workshops, the implementation of a stakeholder interactive platform, the design and implementation of interactive training courses, participation in scientific conferences as part of the project, as well as the supervision and evaluation of newly designed study modules and lecture content in India and Mongolia.