FUTURE aims at developing competences in terms of design and management of urban regeneration processes as tools for social innovation, through elaboration of a training model, its experimentation and identification of a standard path for higher education and training addressed to young professional to be or already included in the labour market. To reach this objective the consortium wants to create a training model, that will support students and young professionals to acquire a set of competences making them capable of implementing urban regeneration processes by reducing distances between stakeholders and creating opportunities for local sustainable development, co-design and enhancement of the identity of a territory. FUTURE project has the general objective of BRIDGING THE SKILLS GAP IN THE URBAN REGENERATION SECTOR - both for university students and young professionals who have already worked- through the acquisition of skills and technical knowledge with an INTERDISCIPLINARY and innovative approach, such as PRACTICE-BASED LEARNING. Project activities can be divided into 4 steps: - Step 1: baseline research (IO1). Project partners will elaborate data collected through a research to detect which are the key competences of professionals working in URP with circular city approach; - Step 2: training model elaboration ( IO2). Definition of competences, structure training programme and methodologies, training the trainers, certification scheme applicable and finalisation of FUTURE training programme are the main activities; - Step 3: testing of FUTURE training programme with practical LAB sessions (IO3). - Step 4: FUTURE Handbook (IO4), toolkit dedicated to professors and trainers, to support students and professionals in acquire relevant skills and competences to be developers of URP with the circular city approach. Some of the numbers that describe FUTURE project, in relation to target groups outreach: - Nr. of students and professionals involved in IO3 – 60; - Nr. of professors/trainers involved in IO2 – 14; - Nr. of universities and VET organisations involved (partners and other organisations) – 7; - Nr. of external stakeholders involved (mainly in Multiplier events) – 200; - Nr. of public administrations, local authorities and NGOs involved – 5. Futhermore, the following RESULTS will be achieved: 1. Creation of a common Training Model that will allow the acquisition of competences by HE students and professionals, on new approaches of urban regeneration in the framework of “circular city”, with innovative and practical methodologies. 2. Identification of training courses (university and post-graduate) and related certification systems of skills for the use of the training model identified even after the closure of FUTURE project. 3. Experimentation in the participating territories (partners’ countries) of the model by involving the recipients of the training in the conception and implementation of concrete projects of urban regeneration and inclusive participation of the community. 4. Create a collaboration model, a good practice for the implementation of a network among universities, VET organisations and organisation of practitioners working in URP/social and economic development, to stimulate them work together and cross-fertilize competences and skills to give a contribution in the development of professionals/future professionals. 5. Increased capacity to work in European contexts and participate/manage EU funded project, furthermore, create a network of different organisations that could work beyond the lifecycle of the project itself. 6. Enlarge the opportunities for students and professionals to raise their skills and as consequence to become aware of what are the new approaches growing within URP aimed at creating measurement tools to consider the city as an integrated ecosystem, with people, place, prosperity and resilience at its core. 7. Favour the acquisition of specific competences (technical and soft-skills) by young people – students or young professionals working on URP – trying to support those who want to access the changing world of urban regeneration with an holistic set of competences that allow them to activate processes of social innovation not only within the future projects they will be working on, but also for them as potential social self-entrepreneurs that adopt social innovation as a management key factor. The consortium is composed by 5 partners and strongly enriched by their diversity, size, type but all joining because of the willingness to support young people in finding their way in work and social life. Project partners represent 3 different sectors: university, training provider, enterprises working in URP and social innovation development. The choice reflects the objective of developing a network to reinforce cooperation between higher education, VET providers and enterprises on real-world problems, contributing to the increase of youth quality employment.
FUTURE aimed at developing competences in terms of design and management of urban regeneration processes as tools for social innovation, through elaboration of a training model, its experimentation and identification of a standard path for higher education and training addressed to young professional to be or already included in the labour market. It intended to build a training model for "Project manager of urban regeneration and inclusive participation of community" profile capable of implementing urban regeneration processes by reducing distances between administration, associations and citizenship and creating opportunities for local sustainable development, public-private co-design and enhancement of the identity of a territory/city/neighborhoods
When the project has been presented the New European Bauhaus initivative was not yet present in the EU panorama, but the project FUTURE wanted to intercept the vision /approach expressed by the “CIRCULAR CITY” introducing holistic and systematic governance, bringing together public authorities, universities, enterprises, NGOs, citizens, other bodies in the development of the city of tomorrow. Following this approach, to generate a strong impact in the URP (urban regeneration process) is fundamental to activate local communities in taking part within the regeneration actions as economic, social and cultural actors, to FAVOR ALSO HUMAN REGENERATION in the intervention areas. To sustain these circular processes it has been estimated as fundamental to have professionals that could facilitate local stakeholders in the development of such experiences, these professionals needed to be not only experts of tangible urban regeneration, they needed to possess skills to manage collective and inclusive processes, capable of involving a multiplicity in the construction of a co-design process, and able to identify and implement innovative solutions to improve the quality of life in cities.