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

Saturday 24 October 2020

Professional Development Program - Contemporary Perspectives on Resilience

USM's KRVIA, in collaboration with the BReUCom project (Building Resilient Urban Communities), co-funded by the Erasmus Plus program of the European Union, is proud to host its first Professional Development Program on Urban Resilience. 

The certificate program, titled, "Contemporary Perspectives on Resilience" is a 3-day lecture series on various discourses around the phenomenon of Resilience in cities.








The details of the program can be found in the Program Brief. 

Link to Program Brief: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1n5DSTJan-WjNbbWZMUhMJblkxykoj2tN/view?usp=sharing

Link to Register: https://forms.gle/c2iE8JQtGY4wsjGBA


Successful participants will be awarded a joint KRVIA-BReUCom certificate.


The Professional Development Program is free for KRVIA Graduates. 


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