Project ERASMUS+ BIP "BEQUEST"
Built Environment Quality Evaluation for Sustainable Transformations
Programme
ERASMUS+ Blended Intensive Programme (BIP)
Call
Erasmus+ Call year 2026/2027
The BEQUEST project aims to create intergenerational value for the city of Bologna by developing an educational framework to support a multi-level regeneration strategy focused on making housing more accessible and efficient. The project promotes sustainable, resilient, and circular urban transformation, tackling challenges from the building level up to the neighborhood and city scale. Specific goals: Through an integrated, multidisciplinary, and multi-level approach, the proposal pursues several key objectives:
Specific objectives: Through an integrated, multidisciplinary, and multi-level approach, the proposal aims to achieve several key objectives:
-Promote European collaboration between universities and local authorities, enhancing the exchange of knowledge and joint learning;
-Improve analytical, design, and managerial skills to tackle a real urban challenge affecting the city of Bologna;
-Develop a rigorous and replicable framework that can be applied in various European contexts to support sustainable urban regeneration strategies;
-Recognize the skills acquired by students through a formal certificate of participation, highlighting their involvement in an international and interdisciplinary learning experience.
Advanced training activity: Winter School
Credits awarded: 3 ECTS
Students: 1st and 2nd cycle (mainly 1st cycle)
Language: English
Field of application: 0731 Architecture and Town Planning
Total duration: 10 days, 5 days online and 5 days in-person.
When: From March 8 to March 19
Online: From March 8 to March 12, 2027
In-person: From March 15 to March 19, 2027
Where? DAMSLab, Piazzetta Pier Paolo Pasolini 5 - 40122 Bologna.
Type of participants: Students and Staff.
Number of learners: Minimum 15.
Certificate of participation will be issued to participants
Project duration
08/03/2027 - 19/03/2027
Scientific project head
Coordinator
Partnership
University of Łódź (ULodz)
University of Tampere (TAU)
Total Budget
6000 Euros
DA Budget
Lump sum of programme ERASMUS+ BIP assigned to the Department of Architecture
Lecturers and researchers connected to the project
University of Bologna
Department of Architecture
University of Łódź
Institute of Urban Geography, Tourism Studies and Geoinformation, Faculty of Geographical Sciences
Tomasz Napierala
Marta Nalej
Institute of the Built Environment and Spatial Policy, Faculty of Geographical Sciences
Katarzyna Lesniewska-Napierala
University of Tampere
Faculty of Built Environment | Civil Engineering
Antti Kurvinen
ISCED Sector
0188 Interdisciplinary programmes and qualifications involving education: Board Field: 7 Engineering; Narrow Field: 073 Architecture and construction; Detailed Field: 0731 Architecture and town planning