 SAVE THE DATE: TU Delft Urban Thinkers’ Campus: 7-9 JUNE 2017
UNIVERSITIES FOR THE NEW URBAN AGENDA
Teaching the New Urban Agenda: Universities Alliance for Sustainable and Fair Urban Development
Between 7 and 9 June 2017, the Department of Urbanism of the TU Delft will organise an Urban Thinkers’ Campus (UTC ) on Education for the New Urban Agenda. The New Urban Agenda is the outcome document agreed upon at theHabitat III cities conference in Quito, Ecuador, in October 2016 by all UN member states.
The NUA will guide the efforts around urbanisation of a wide range of actors — nation states, city and regional leaders, international development funders, United Nations programmes and civil society — for the next 20 years. After the enactment of the document, attention has shifted towards IMPLEMENTATION: how to implement its principles?
We believe that universities have a special role in preparing young professional to face that challenge. But in order to do so, we are reaching out to stakeholders from the academic and educational worlds, as well as NGOs, companies and government agencies, to discuss how best to teach and learn issues related to and stemming from the New Urban Agenda.
The TU Delft UTC will discuss strategies, methodologies, literature and practical exercises that can be implemented in higher education courses in Europe and elsewhere. Our attention is on social, economic and environmentally sustainable urban development everywhere, but the challenges of urbanisation in the Global South are truly urgent. Tell us about your ideas by writing to r.c.rocco@tudelft.nl
Our main question is how to prepare young professionals to understand and implement the New Urban Agenda in very diverse national and local environments?
This UTC will also be a moment to meet like-minded people, engage in debate and form new partnerships.
This is an initiative from TU Delft in partnership with TU-Eindhoven and IHS-Erasmus Rotterdam with the help from Arcadis and others.
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