Intellectual Output 4: Modular course on urban decarbonisation

The City Minded partnership designed a modular online course which is available on the project eLearning platform. The aim of the course is to provide knowledge on urban decarbonisation by addressing different aspects and scales, from place-making to energy efficiency, from the city, to the building. The course is not simply a succession of lectures but encourages the learner to research online resources, bibliographies and databases.

The course is structured into the following four modules:

Module 1) Place-making Framework looks at the neighbourhood from a qualitative point of view and seeks to engage students into reading an area through its assets and community.

Module 2) Climate Change and Natural Hazards Vulnerability works at different scales and looks at the quantitative and qualitative evaluation of the components of vulnerability.

Module 3) Urban Carbon Accounting is about the calculation of carbon emissions from a quantitative point of view at a building scale.

Module 4) Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Self-Consumption for City Decarbonisation builds on the previous module and looks at possible solutions to improve the energy efficiency of buildings.

The course can be access through registration on http://elearning.cityminded.eu/