Increased frequency of natural hazards and sea level rise are expected impacts of climate change in India. Marginalised urban settlements are often vulnerable to disaster due to their location in hazardous areas and the use of non-durable building materials.Their inhabitants are therefore strongly affected by climate change. But amidst strives to meet climate targets, the poor's needs are mostly overlooked.

In this context, there is an urgent need for paradigmatic shift in the education of graduate students in spatial planning and design as well as training of urban professionals from different backgrounds in order to confront upcoming challenges related to climate change impacts on urban informal settlements.

The BReUCom project intents to conceive and pilot 20 short terms post-graduate Professional Development Programs (PDPs) targeted at real world problems. It aims to produce Open Educational Resources by developing 10 comparative case studies and 10 descriptions of new courses for graduate students in existing programs, following MIT's OpenCourseWare (OCW) model. It shall pilot new courses on urban resilience in existing curricula for graduate students.

The Professional Development Programs (PDPs) are designed to function as modules on urban resilience for urban professionals from different backgrounds and working experiences, pilot modules including internships with NGOs in India and Europe.

For more information: https://www.breucom.eu

Friday 1 May 2020

BReUCom Symposium 3: Resilience Approach in Urban Paradigms - Training Needs for Urban Resilience in India

The third BReUCom symposium titled, ‘Resilience Approach in Urban Paradigms: Training Needs for Urban Resilience in India’, was held at KRVIA, Mumbai, on 2nd, 3rd and 4th of December, 2019.

 The event was held within the framework of the project ‘Building Resilient Urban Communities’ (BReUCom), funded under the ‘Capacity Building in Higher Education’ program of EU Erasmus+.

 The symposium witnessed participation from:

 Indian Institutions of Higher Education

 Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute for Architecture and Environmental Studies, Mumbai
School of Planning and Architecture, Bhopal
School of Planning and Architecture, Vijayawada
National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur
Indian Non-Governmental Organisations

 Society for Promotion of Area Resource Centers, Mumbai (SPARC)
Centre for Urban and Regional Excellence, New Delhi (CURE)
European Institutions of Higher Education

 Danube University Krems, Austria
University of Twente - ITC, Netherlands
Advisory Board for the BReUCom project

 Experts in various fields who delivered lectures over the three days of the Symposium
The three-day symposium was planned as a set of three distinct events:
1. Advisory Board Meeting
2. Exhibition of BReUCom Coursework
3. Symposium to discuss BReUCom project work

 Click on the Assessment Report below to read more about each of the events. 



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