Intellectual Output 1: Methodology and Guidelines
The growing attention paid to climate change is leading nations and international organisations to pursue common goals to limit the inevitable climatic variations that will be experienced globally in the near future. The Erasmus+ City Minded project, as well as the Methodology and Guidelines developed and tested in the project’s City Decarbonisation Itinerant Workshops, fit perfectly into the objectives of Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions reduction set by Europe. For this reason, they represent a valid tool for the climate impact assessment in the urban contexts, suggesting also specific environmental policies for the improvement of inhabited areas.
The main objective of the City Minded project was to develop and test an innovative and creative, European-scaled learning environment in which students, specialists, and stakeholders can collaborate to identify and design the best solutions for decarbonizing European cities. Specifically, the developed methodology focused primarily on the study and potential transformation of target districts, neighbourhoods, and counties to address site-specific challenges and provide roadmaps for decarbonization of the urban areas.
The final Methodology and Guidelines aims to address the implementation of the Workshops, which are based on the combination of different skills and designed as an innovative teaching and learning experience aimed at university students, but also doctoral students, and young researchers. In particular, the focus is not only on the production of urban sustainability agendas, but rather on the process that leads to their definition and the learning environment in which this process takes place.
