CliCCHE was designed to develop and test innovative non-formal learning/teaching methodology and tools that aim to stimulate students’ motivation, enhance their engagement and amplify their contribution to generate a participative environment for the definition of health-oriented climate change adaptation strategies at the urban scale. The specific objectives were to: - enable students to evaluate climate change effects on urban health and equity and so to identify and design appropriate adaptation strategies; - increase the students' interest in the topic of urban regeneration through an innovative participatory process (urban simulation game); - innovate the teaching practice by applying a trans-disciplinary approach, and involving citizens through immersive virtual environments, simulation games and public art; - promote changes in the local authorities by providing knowledge and tools to help them develop health-oriented, climate-proof urban plans and projects; - raise citizens' awareness of climate change effects on health in urban contexts, and strengthen their role as co-designers of urban spaces.
CliCCHE aimed to introduce into university education the concepts of urban health and equity, which are increasingly debated on a scientific level (and even more so because of the COVID-19 pandemic) but much less present in ordinary curricula regarding urban regeneration and planning. More specifically, it intended to fill the following gaps in current European High Education on urban planning and design: lack of integration and hybridization of urban planning, sustainability, health and social equity, and climate change in the classical pedagogical approaches; difficulty in concretely immersing students into the complexity of the urban narrative, enabling them to face the labour world. Universities need to train future experts who are able to plan interventions to limit climate change effects on health and equity in urban contexts, and to do so with the active involvement of public administrations, civil society and citizens. CliCCHE aimed at overcoming these gaps by promoting an innovative, fully-integrated trans-disciplinary educational methodology and unconventional tools to deal with the effects of climate change on urban health and equity in European cities, which can be used by both HEIs and public administrations.