Beneficiary partners

Faculty of Architecture and Arts 

Through its explicit civic focus and creative-critical perspective, UHasselt’s Faculty of Architecture and Arts (ARK) engages in fundamental and applied research that supports and enables sustainable cultural and spatial transitions. Starting from our artistic and design disciplines, yet in intense interaction with other disciplines, we strive for impact in the academic, social and cultural domain. We operate in an international context with a strong focus on local/regional anchoring. 

ARK’s research covers a range of topics (designing for positive impact, well-being & diversity, civic & policy design, crafts & cultural memory, adaptive re-use & heritage,..) and is known for its innovative research methods (live projects, artistic research, research by design,...). ARK is a trusted partner and coordinator in European and nationally funded projects and collaborates with external organizations, such as companies, governments, and non-profit/cultural organizations.

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Department of Sustainability and Planning

Techno-Anthropology and Participation (TAPAR) is an interdisciplinary research group at the Department of Sustainability and Planning, Aalborg University, that focuses on the relations between emerging technologies, ecologies and societies. TAPAR members are specialised in digital healthcare, participatory design for sustainable computing and technology assessment. The group  includes approximately 25 members. 

The department was established in 1975. Today  it is located in both Aalborg and Copenhagen in two lovely locations at the harbour front, with more than 250 employees and around 1,200 students. 

Research and study programmes are rooted in sustainability and green transition, and includes topics as circular economy, technology, urban, energy and environmental planning, sustainable transition and design.

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department of Architecture of ETH Zürich 

The NEWROPE Chair of Architecture and Urban Transformation is part of the department of Architecture of ETH Zürich and deals with the field of spatial design and social innovation, focusing both on innovative solutions and processes.

The NEWROPE Chair wants to engage in rediscovering Europe as inhabitable ground, and a shared space for all, in a world that is constantly changing. The rediscovering of this territory, both as a shared history and a common future, is what we call NEWROPE. It comes with an exploration of the large diversity of urban practices that inhabit and shape Europe.

The NEWROPE Chair applies and investigates the idea of Design in Dialogue, or the belief that the complexities of our time can only be tackled collectively, by developing transdisciplinary ideas and projects, linking spatial and strategic knowledge to other disciplines and urban practitioners, with a radical openness to learn from others.

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The Schools of Arts and Communication

Malmö University is characterized by an interdisciplinary profile and strong commitment in collaborating with different societal actors. The School of Arts and Communication (K3), is part of the Faculty of Culture and Society and it combines traditional scholarship and with designerly practices and artistic methods. K3 has a long-standing tradition as a research and teaching environment for Participatory Design. It is known for its socially engaged style of teaching and researching, where transdisciplinary approaches are used to work and learn together with different societal actors.

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Department of Computer Science and Information Systems

The Computer Science and Information Systems department is a department Faculty of Science and Engineering. Our teaching and research activities focus on a wide variety of digital disciplines including human-centred computing, music technology, digital arts, games, software engineering, software localisation, and bio-inspired intelligent systems.

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Department of Sociology and Social Research 

The Department of Sociology and Social Research develops the heritage of the first Italian faculty devoted to the sociological thinking. It is regularly classified in the top Italian rankings and it is a member of several European and international research networks.

The Department offers to scientists holding different orientation and interests, the opportunity to meet and compare their positions and their empirical researches, sharing the common base of the exercise of the empirical, theoretical-oriented research.

The Department employs both sociologists and scientists of other branches, whose studies contribute to the in-depth analysis of the border contents of the social discipline.