This platform supports learning activities of the Knowledge Alliance for Evidence-Based Practices (KAEBUP) project and includes activities open to the public. You can access these in two ways:
- You can register and self-enroll in public activities to participate in, viewing lectures, teaching materials and performing learning tasks. To register you need to create an account and validate it through the email address you provide. You can then enter the activity and enroll yourself. Registration is required in order to keep track of your progress by ticking off completed tasks and request an automatic certificate detailing the activity, the tasks you performed and the transversal learning skills you practiced in relation to each task.
- You can simply enter as a guest user, without registering. You can access all educational materials and perform learning tasks. However, you will not be able to keep track of your progress and the automatic certificate functionality will not work (i.e. it cannot include your name, tasks completed or transversal skills); if you submit related coursework, we will not be able to provide feedback.
The activities restricted to KAEBUP participants were developed to support in-person activities of the project and, at the same time, test the platform to customize the functionalities. These activities are only useful if you participated in the in-person activities. They remain on the platform to provide continued access to KAEBUP participants.
If you would like to view the material in a restricted activity or propose an activity or functionality, please, contact us at: kaebup.eu@gmail.com
Available Activities
Category: Public
This program aims to promote entrepreneurial thinking and provide participants with an understanding of urban issues in architecture, urban design, and urban planning. We created a learning progression that integrated different stages of social entrepreneurship and evidence-based practices in urban development. The progression was designed based on established methodologies such as the Business Model Canvas, Value Proposition Design, Design Thinking, and Agile methodologies and focused on prototyping. To achieve the objectives of this short-term course, we design activities and offer participants the opportunity to analyze design thinking, manage innovation, create social entrepreneurship, elaborate on urban-based practices, and implement a business model canvas for new social businesses.
This short learning activity is aimed at undergraduate and postgraduate students in the fields of architecture, urban design and town planning. It aims at introducing students to the theory and practice of master planning through three sessions: introduction to master planning and the case study of the Verengaria master plan in Limassol (Cyprus), a lecture on sustainability in master planning, and an individual task: assessing a master plan through an online toolkit and produce a short presentation. This activity took place in presence in Spring 2021, including a site visit to Verengaria, and is now available online.
This activity uses Solar da Avenida in Porto as case study. The Solar is in the historical area of Porto, a part of the city that has been suffering tremendous pressure from tourism. The building is a notable example of this pressure, combining an architectural office with a set of touristic apartments.
The activity addresses the following questions: i. How to balance the local identity of a city and the response to touristic demand? ii. How to express this balance in a building, particularly in a historical building with a high heritage value, as the Solar? iii. What ‘must’ we conserve to keep the character of the building and what ‘can’ we change?
Category: Public
This collaborative web-based learning space provides students and young professionals with methodologies and examples of practices which bring into focus the experience of urban space from the standpoint of everyday life, its daily utility through immediate engagement with the space as a man-made intentional environment.
Category: KAEBUP participants
Activity dedicated to students of University of Cyprus, University of Parma and University of Porto, undertaking the KAEBUP's summer internship programme in 2023.
Category: KAEBUP participants
The aim of the BMWs is to co-develop the knowledge base on successful models for evidence-based urban practices, potential market and start-up opportunities by having all stakeholders contribute with their expertise, creativity and skills to how entrepreneurship in the fields of architecture, urban design and planning can be fostered and enhanced. These activities will complement the research work carried out to produce a portfolio of business models for evidence-based urban practices. They will support development of learners’ business knowledge and will help fostering entrepreneurial mind-sets among HEI staff and students, while contributing to the objectives of enterprises of gaining broader access to research outputs, clearer communication of what is needed from academia, as well as evaluation and assessment tools to identify market gaps and opportunities.
Category: KAEBUP participants
Activity dedicated to students of University of Cyprus, University of Parma and University of Porto, undertaking the KAEBUP's summer internship programme in 2022.
Category: ISSUM students
ISSUM aims to offer students the opportunity to learn methods of urban morphology through the teaching of international teachers and concretely verify the knowledge acquired through the interpretation of the built landscape. The ISSUM goal is to also provide a centre of excellence in urban form knowledge through multiple exchange and involvement of students, academics and professional in learning, research and design.
Through lectures and studio work, discussions and research activities, participants will explore the urban morphology studies' role in reading historical and consolidated urban fabrics and in producing an evidence-based intervention design.
