Reports

The workshop took place in the lobby of Helsinki City Hall on 14 June 2022. Around 30 people participated in the workshop, together with 7 ESRs and 7 supervisors and secondment representatives.  The aim of the workshop was to apply a holistic approach to the provision of affordable and sustainable housing, through a use case: A municipality has a piece of land in a working class neighbourhood that is to be developed through a sustainable master plan including affordable housing.  During the three-hour session, participants, organised in four teams, developed a step-by-step strategy that takes into account the interrelationships between the three themes that make up the RE-DWELL research framework: design, planning and construction; community participation, and policy and financing. For each theme, participants were given a brief explanation of the most relevant issues, methods and tools, summarised in a 'wheel'. Each team then had 30 minutes to discuss how those could be applied to the use case, and present the results to the rest of the participants.  This methodology enabled us to put into practice for the first time the transdisciplinary approach that we aim to develop in RE-DWELL.     This is the video recording of the introductory session.

The first of the three planned summer schools, organized by the University of Cyprus (UCY), was carried out in Nicosia, from November 15 to 20, 2021. This report focuses on the results of this summer school. The theme of the summer school, “Planning, Design and Retrofitting of Affordable and Sustainable Housing”, was thus addressed from multiple perspectives through presentations from invited speakers from professional practice, academia, the local partner organisation and the local municipalities.  The programme of activities enabled a follow-up on the development of ESR’s research through training activities related to the ongoing structured courses (two sessions on “Research, Methods and Tools 1” and “Transferrable Skills 1”). The presentations were followed by insightful group discussions and were complemented by site visits to the Nicosia Master Plan’s regeneration projects (north and south Nicosia) and the local partner organisation’s (CLDC, Cyprus Land Development Corporation) housing projects in the city of Limassol.   A roundtable to discuss “The design of affordable and sustainable housing: challenges and opportunities” was open to the public via an online session.

The purpose of this report is to document the objectives, content and implementation process of the Research Methods and Tools 1 (RMT1) course. The course is worth 4 ECTS, which is equivalent to about 100 hours of learning, including online and in-person sessions and self-directed work. As indicated in the RE-DWELL research proposal, RMT1 introduced the main concepts of the RE-DWELL research structure: sustainability, affordability, and transdisciplinarity. Moreover, the course aimed to stimulate ESRs to critically engage with these concepts by integrating them in their research projects. 

This document describes the content and implementation process of the Transferable Skills 1 (TS1) course. It presents the course aims, learning outcomes, structure and content, learning activities, resources, and outputs. This course is focused on personal qualities and self-management, ethics, open science and Intellectual Property Rights (IPR). Transferable skills covered under TS1 include five topics contained in two sub-groups: (a) Personal qualities and self-management; and (b) Ethics, open science and IPR. TS1 is a 4-ECTS course, which equates to approximately 100 hours of learning, including online and in-person sessions and self-directed work. 

This is a report of the RE-DWELL Workshop 1 that took place in Lisbon, 22, 23 and 24 of September, 2021, hosted by ISCTE-IUL.  The programme was structured to fulfil various objectives: to follow-up the development of the ESRs’ research by fostering networking between the individual research projects, to conduct training activities related to ongoing structured courses (RMT1 and TS1), and to engage external stakeholders in the network actions. The workshop activities included lectures by representatives of the Lisbon Municipality, CASAIS engineers, external invited guests and professors from ISCTE-IUL specialized in participation, sustainability and housing policies, as well as guided visits to the BIP/ZIP neighbourhoods and to a CASAIS building site

This report contains the work corresponding to four deliverables:   •Deliverable 5.2 Web portal (second stage), follow-up of Deliverable 5.1 “Web portal (first stage)” •Deliverable 5.5 Vocabulary, online glossary of the networks’ research •Deliverable 5.6 Case study library, online collection of documented references •Deliverable 5.7 ESR profiling (first stage), continuous reporting of the work done by ESRs   The four deliverables refer to components of the project website that are interrelated. To facilitate the understanding of these interrelationships, the four deliverables are presented in a single document.