BUILD2050

Training for Sustainable and Healthy Building for 2050

Areas: Building performance & architectural liveability Climate & energy challenges Design innovation

Project code: 2021-1-PT01-KA220-HED-000032138

Programme: Erasmus+

Call: Call 2021 Round 1 KA2 - KA220-HED - Cooperation partnerships in higher education

The challenge for the European Union for 2050 is to decarbonize the economy, where buildings have an important role. These will be 2050 constructions: almost zero carbon, healthy and promote well-being, and returning to the natural environment contributes to what they take from it.

To achieve this goal, it is fundamental to develop technologies in an integrated, holistic approach, properly adapted to climatic, cultural, and natural resource conditions, through circular economy methodologies. This is an enormous challenge for all the actors involved, technicians, scientists, policymakers and the population of all member states.

It is necessary to: (i) create new courses based on innovative training methods with interdisciplinary content with a European scope that allow a continuous update, (ii) train professionals in the areas necessary for decarbonization in construction, and (iii) foster healthy constructions and enhancing regeneration/restitution.

Higher Education Institutions face increasingly critical and complementary challenges; in particular, promoting shorter, complementary and multidisciplinary study cycles may allow greater flexibility in acquiring knowledge and creating specialized training offers.

The main objective of BUILD2050 is to improve the construction, renovation and operation of healthy and sustainable buildings at the European level through the development of integrated and transnational training. The specific objectives are: (1) Create transversal skills in the building sector knowledge for emerging challenges through an integrated training composed of 8 courses aimed at students and professionals; (2) Foster the sharing of innovative knowledge and challenges through the creation of a network of European partners in the building sector (entrepreneurs, researchers, municipalities); (3) Promote the response to the challenges in building sector through the creation of a platform with the compilation of the information generated in training by the trainers, trainees and associated partners; (4) Promote new forms of education through the sharing of experience/methodology of creating integrated and transnational training through a European Guide on Advanced Training for Build2050.

Project duration

02.2022 – 02.2025

Department scientific supervisor

Annarita FERRANTE

Coordinator

IPS – Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal / Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal (https://www.ips.pt)

Partnership

UNIBO - Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna

SGGW - Szkola Glowna Gospodarstwa Wiejskiego / Warsaw University of Life Sciences

NKUA - Ethniko Kai Kapodistriako Panepistimio Athinon / National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

POLIMI – Politecnico di Milano

RUB - RUHR-Universitaet Bochum / RURH University Bochum