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KICK OFF WORKSHOP SEVILLE

UPO - UNIVERSITY "PABLO DE OLAVIDE"

20th - 24th FEBRUARY SEVILLE

Kick off Workshop Seville, 20th-24th February 2017

TABLE OF CONTENTS

. MEETING PROGRAMME

. PARTNERSHIP

. WORK PACKAGE COORDINATORS AND TASKS

. LIST OF PARTICIPANTS

. OVERALL TIME TABLE

. CARE KICK-OFF WORKSHOP - PRESS RELEASE

. PRESENTATION OF THE PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS

. PROJECT SUMMARY AND INTRODUCTION OF THE MEETING DAYS

. ANNEXE 1 - SUMMARY OF PRESENTATIONS

. ANNEXE 2 - INSTRUCTION FOR PARTNERS' PRESENTATIONS

. ANNEXE 3 - CONCEPT MAPS


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CARE KICK-OFF WORKSHOP

Seville, 20th-24th February 2017 University “Pablo de Olavide”, Ctra. de Utrera, 1, 41013 Seville

Monday 20th – Rectorate “University Pablo de Olavide”, ground floor

14.00-16.00: Presentation of the workshop contents and objectives (UPO)

Coffee break

16.15-18.00: Technical and financial review (UPO)

Tuesday 21st – Rectorate “University Pablo de Olavide”, ground floor

9.30-10.30: Presentation of Steering Committee and 1st meeting of SC (UPO)

10.30-11.30: Presentation of Quality Plan and 1st meeting of Quality Board (UTE)

Coffee break

11.45-13.00: Presentations on the Communication and Dissemination Plan (UNAL), project’s web page (POLIEDRA) and e-platform (UIM).

Lunch break

14.00-16.00 Partners’ short presentations: partner information on their organisation and on the “Shared Knowledge Basis Report: Urban Resilience” (ALL PARTNERS – one presentation per country) (PLEASE SEE INSTRUCTIONS) *please see last page for times.

Coffee break

16.30-18.00 Partners’ short presentations on their organisation and on the “Shared Knowledge Basis Report: Urban Resilience” (ALL PARTNERS – one presentation per country). (PLEASE SEE INSTRUCTIONS) *please see last page for times.

Wednesday 22nd – Rectorate “University Pablo de Olavide”, ground floor

9.30-11.15: Introduction to Concept Map structure (UPO)

Coffee break

11.30-13.00: Setting of working groups and brainstorming on urban resilience to climate change.

Lunch break

14.00-16.00: Exercise on concept mapping n. 1: listing concepts on given topics. Presentation of groups’ work and discussions.

Coffee break

16.15-17.30: Exercise on concept mapping n. 2: building concept maps on given topics.

17.30-18.00: Introduction of the Fuzzy Cognitive Method (TWENTE)

MEETING PROGRAMME


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Thursday 23rd – SALA DE GRADOS - Building nº6 – Ground floor

9.30-10.45: Presentation of CARE’s Work Plan (focus on description of outputs to be delivered by the intermediate report): UPO.

10.45-11.15: Skype with our EU Agency’s Project Officer (Ms. Eva Valle)

Coffee break

11.30-13.00: Presentation of CARE Budget’s Breakdown and administrative/financial questions to be solved: UPO.

Lunch break

14.00 -16.00: Group Work: organisation and distribution of activities related to WP’s tasks and outputs to be delivered by the intermediate report. ALL PARTNERS.

Coffee break

16.15 -17.30: Groups wrap up on the CMap’s exercise and discussion on the use of concept maps in higher education. ALL PARTNERS

Friday 24th – Rectorate “University Pablo de Olavide”, ground floor

09.30 -11.00: “Shared Knowledge Basis Report on Urban Resilience”: definition on chapters’ structure and contents (distribution of chapters/tasks). ALL PARTNERS

Coffee break

11.15 -13.00: Remaining administrative/financial questions to be solved: UPO.

MEETING PROGRAMME


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*Approximated times for Tuesdays’ presentations

Tuesday 21st

14.00-16.00 Partners’ short presentations: partner information on their organisation and on the “Shared Knowledge Basis Report: Urban Resilience”:

14.00: Presentations on the following partners: POLIMI and POLIEDRA.

14.15: Presentation on state of the art in Italy.

14.30: Presentations on the following partners: UC and UDEC.

14.40: Presentation on state of the art in Chile.

15.00: Presentations on the following partners: UFPA and UFABC. 15.10: Presentation on state of the art in Brazil.

15.30: Presentations on the following partners: UNIBAGUE, UT and UNAL.

15.45: Presentation on state of the art in Colombia.

Coffee break

16.30: Presentations on the following partners: UDELAR and Presentation on state of the art in Uruguay.

16.45: Presentations on the following partners: CRIC (ONLUS), UTE and UTEQ.

17.00: Presentation on state of the art in Ecuador.

17.15: Presentations on the following partners: TWENTE and Presentation on state of the art in Netherlands.

17.30: Presentations on the following partners: UIM and UPO.

17.40: Presentation on state of the art in Spain.

MEETING PROGRAMME


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P2 Spain Unión Iberoamericana de Municipalistas UIM ONG P3 Italy Politecnico Di Milano POLIMI HEI - University

P4 Italy Centro di Servizio e Consulenza del Politecnico di Milano

POLIEDRA Research Centre

P5 Italy Centro Regionale d'Intervento per la Cooperazione Onlus

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University Pablo de Olavide, Geography Department


Workpackages and tasks

WORK PACKAGE WP

COORD. TASKS WP1 PREPARATION

UPO Task 1.1. Sharing of methodology (UPO) Task 1.2. Sharing of knowledge (UPO) Task 1.3. Tools for sharing (UIM)

WP2 DEVELOPMENT POLIEDRA

Task 2.1. CARE Cmap 1.0 (UTWENTE) Task 2.2. Intensive workshop among academic staff and collective delivering of CARE Cmap 2.0 (UTEQ + POLIEDRA) Task 2.3. Personalization of CARE Cmap 2.0 (ALL PARTNERS)) Task 2.4. Intensive course for students and delivering CARE Cmap3.0 (UNAL+POLIMI) Task 2.5. Open training modules (UIM)

WP3 QUALITY PLAN

UTE/CRIC Task 3.1. Quality assessment plan (UTE) Task 3.2. Quality assessment (UTE)

WP4 DISSEMINATION EXPLOITATION

UNAL

Task 4.1. Preparation of a shared communication and dissemination plan (UNAL, UIM, CRIC) Task 4.2. Webportal and communication materials (POLIEDRA) Task 4.3. Active dissemination and networking (UNAL) Task 4.4. Final Conference (UC)

WP5 MANAGEMENT UPO Task 5.1. Technical management (UPO)

Task 5.2. Financial management (UPO)

PARTNERSHIP

WORK PACKAGE COORDINATORS AND TASKS


LIST OF PARTICIPANTS

Acronyme Partner Country Contact Person Position

Pilar Paneque Salgad Coordinator

Jesús Vargas Molina ResearcherVirginia Rodriguez Diaz ResearcherJosefina López Galdeano ResearcherMaría García CoordinatorJose Chira StaffMarcello Magoni ProfessorRachele Radaelli ResearcherMara Cossu ResearcherSimona Muratori ResearcherIsabella Giunta Expert

Maria di Marco Director

Richard Sliuzas Associate professorJohn Horn Admin and management

UC PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE Chile Cristián Henríquez Associate professorHéctor Mauricio Hernández Sarabia ProfessorLiliana Rocío Delgadillo Mirquez Professor

UNAL UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA Colombia Santiago Arango Aramburo Vice-dean for ResearchAdriana Goñi Mazzitelli Associate professorIngrid Roche ProfessorVictor Arias Bejarano ProfessorOswaldo Moscoso Zea Professor

UTEQ UNIVERSIDAD TECNICA ESTATAL DE QUEVEDO Ecuador Betty Beatriz Gonzalez Osorio Professor Researcher

CRIC Centro Regionale d'Intervento per la Cooperazione Onlus Italy

UTE Universidad Tecnológica Equinoccial Ecuador

Univerisdad de Unibague

UDELAR Universidad de la República Uruguay

TWENTE UNIVERSITEIT TWENTE Netherlands

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POLIMI POLITECNICO DI MILANO Italy

UNIVERSIDAD PABLO DE OLAVIDEUPO

UIM UNIÓN IBEROAMERICANA DE MUNICIPALISTAS

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WORK PACKAGES TASKS

WP1 PREPARATION

Task 1.1. Sharing of methodology

Task 1.2. Sharing of knowledge

Task 1.3. Tools for sharing

WP2 DEVELOPMENT

Task 2.1. CARE Cmap 1.00

Task 2.2. Intensive workshop among academic staff and collective delivering of CARE Cmap 2.0

Task 2.3. Personalization of CARE Cmap 2.0

Task 2.4. Intensive course for students and delivering of CARE Cmap 3.0

Task 2.5. Open training modules

WP3 QUALITY PLAN

Task 3.1. Quality assessment plan (UTE)

Task 3.2 Quality assessment (UTE)

WP4 DISSEMINATION EXPLOITATION

Task 4.1. Preparation of a shared communication and dissemination plan

Task 4.2. WebPortal and communication materials

Task 4.3. Active dissemination and networking

Task 4.4. Final conference

WP5 MANAGEMENT Task 5.1. Technical management

OVERALL TIME TABLE


CARE KICK-OFF WORKSHOP – PRESS RELEASE


CARE KICK-OFF WORKSHOP – PRESS RELEASE

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PRESENTATION OF THE PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS

In the afternoon second meeting session, was opened by the welcome speech of the Vice chan-cellor of international relations, then each partner was called to present its organization and contri-butionto the project according to a brief format previously shared. UPO, as hosting partner, presen-ted first and other partners followed, each presentation took approcimately 10’ and the sequence was suspended by a coffe break at 4.00 PM to 4.30 PM. See Annex 2 for the following power point presentations:

. University “Pablo de Olavide” (UPO) - HEI University

. Unión Iberoamericana de Municipalistas (UIM) - ONG

. Politecnico Di Milano (POLIMI) - HEI University

. Centro di Servizio e Consulenza del Politecnico di Milano (POLIEDRA) - Research Centre

. Centro Regionale d’Intervento per la Cooperazione Onlus. (CRIC) - ONG

. Universiteit Twente (UTWENTE) - HEI University

. Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile (UC) - HEI University

. Universidad de Concepcion (UDEC) - HEI University

. Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA) - HEI University

. Fundacao Universidade Federal do Abc (UFABC) - HEI University

- Universidad de Ibague (UNIBAGUE) - HEI University

. Universidad del Tolima (UT) - HEI University

. Universidad Nacional de Colombia (UNAL) - HEI University

. Universidad de la República (UDELAR) - HEI University

. Universidad Tecnológica Equinoccial (UTE) - HEI University

. Universidad Tecnica Estatal de Quevedo (UTEQ) - HEI University


PROJECT SUMMARY AND INTRODUCTION OF THE MEETING DAYS

Monday, 20th February 2017At the beginning of the first session, on Monday 20th February, Kick off Workshop on Empowering Climate Resilience CARE held at the Pablo de Olavide University, Seville during 20th-24th February 2017, a small introductory presentation was made by Josefina López Galdeano to the participating partners and on the agenda established for the kick-off workshop (please see above). There were also several presentations that complete the introduction explaining the work plan and the finan-cial plan.

It should be noted that, as reflected in the work plan, the project is organised in Work Packages where each partner has a role and also each Work Package has a coordinator as specified below:

• WP1 – Preparation → UPO• WP2 – Development → POLIEDRA• WP3 – Quality Plan → UTE/CRIC• WP4 – Dissemination and Exploitation → UNAL• WP5 – Management → UPO

After the introduction programme it was explained the project management and who are involved in the Work Packages. Partners must know their role on the steering committee, to follow up the pro-ject through regular reviews and milestones and to make decisions by adjusting the timetable and conducting the risk assessment.

Along the project, four meetings will be organised.

During the first meeting we have discussed about:

• Project management plan and detailed work-plan.• Data colletion and sharing.• Creation of a Quality Board.

At the end of the day, financial management were addressed and how the partners’ budget needs to be used.

The project’s financial management is based on the E + CBHE documents, other documents pu-blished by the EACEA, recommendations from the EACEA coordinators’ meeting 2016, rules and frameworks agreed by the partnership, etc.

The first funding rule is bases on the co-funding principle and the grant is divided in:• staff costs, • travel costs, • costs of stay, • equipment • subcontracting.

Josefina López Galdeano explained how payments will be made:

1st pre-financing payment (50%) will be transferred as soon as possible.

2nd financing payment (40%) will be issued when at least 70% of the pre-financing payment has been spent. Last payment when the project has been finalised.



Tuesday,21th February 2017

In the second day (Tuesday 21th February), the communication and dissemination plans were intro-duced by Jose Chira (UIM), Santiago Arango Aramburo (UNAL) y Mara Cossu (POLIEDRA). The goals of the plan are to raise interest in the project and disseminate its outputs, to develop an action plan to foreseen further problems, to promote a resilience network between Europe and Latino America, to establish the required networks, to keep track of the communication and dissemination strategy and to encourage the partners to give proper visibility to the activities and project findings.

The target groups are internal (partners – students, professors, researchers and professionals) and external (government agencies and other universities).

The Communication Action Plan establishes the following main objectives:

Objective 1. To stablish the required networks.• Definition of dissemination means• Select dissemination tools• Linkage of means and tools• Application of the strategy

Objective 2. To keep track of the communication and dissemination strategy.o Planning:

o Stakeholders definition o Communication channelso Control: o To guarantee the quality of the communications o To update the most relevant documents/information

Objective 3. To encourage the partners to give proper visibility to the activities and project findings.

• Encourage the use of the partners’ social media to promote the activities and findings of the project.

• Promote a fiendly competition between the partners, in terms of indicators’ achievement.

• Collect and disseminate relevanta information in brochures, webpages, newsletters and others.

After this, the Unión Iberoamericana de Municipalistas (UIM) explained the E-learning platform and its objectives. The E – learning CARE platform will be the main tool for the implementation of the pro-ject activities and for the dissemination of its results, being the repository of all tools and documents produced during the project, which will be made available freely.

The CARE Web portal and logo drafts were introduced by Mara Cossu from the Centro di Serviezio e Consulenza del Politecnico di Milano (POLIEDRA).

After the coffee break, at 11.45 PM Josefina López Galdeano (UPO) explained the management structure for the CARE project: Project Coordinator, Quality Board, Steering Committee, Manage-ment Board, and Work Package Coordinators.

She underlined that the WP Coordinators have to report to the Steering Committee (dealing with



the administrative issues and the decisions for the project advancement), the Quality Board (dea-ling with the technical issues), and the Management Board (dealing with financial issues), which are all composed by one member per partner.

Josefina López Galdeano explained that it would be preferable that the members of the Steering Committee are not the same as the members of the Quality Board and the Management Board, but each partner could decide accordingly to its specific needs. In any case, if the persons atten-ding the meetings have only technical profiles, it should be made sure that the administrative and financial information is properly transmitted to the persons in charge back home; and that their organisations’ administrative and financial needs are properly transmitted to the meetings. Partners will be asked to communicate the names of their members of each committee.

Josefina López Galdeano asked partners if there were doubts or suggestions about the proposed management structure. In response to some of the partners’ questions, she explains that::

- the persons appointed for being part of the committees are likely to travel together to all the international meetings, since these will comprise both technical and administrative issues;

- also, they have to be able/in charge to take decisions on part of their organisations.

Some partners suggested that the three boards were cut to two, merging the Steering Committee and the Quality Board. Josefina López Galdeano reminded that such structure is required by the project’s application form. In any case, a compromise could be that the same member from each partner is part of both the Steering Committee and the Management Board.

Each partner presents informally the persons who will be part of the boards; UPO will soon provide a form to be filled in with the related, official information.

- UNIBAGUE: SC: Héctor Mauricio Hernández Sarabia

- UTEQ: SC: Betty Beatriz Gonzalez Osorio

- UTE: SC: VÍctor Arias Bejarano

- CRIC: SC: Isabella Giunta

- UTWENTE: SC: Richard Sliuzas

- UPO: SC: Pilar Paneque Salgado

- UNAL: SC: Santiago Arango Aramburo

- UIM: SC: Jose Chira

- UC: SC: Cristian Henriíquez

- UDELAR: SC: Adriana Goñi Mazzitelli

- POLIMI: SC: Marcello Magoni

- POLIEDRA: SC: Simona Muratori

Josefina López Galdeano explained once again how the payments will be made:

1st pre-financing payment (50%) will be transferred as soon as possible.

2nd financing payment (40%) will be issued when at least 70% of the pre-financing payment has been spent.



Last payment when the project has been finalised.

UPO will require that timesheets, travel expenses and staff conventions are transmitted every three months to the Lead Partner. Official yearly reports will also have to be transmitted to the responsible European Agency.

After lunch, at 14.00 PM, partners explained theirs projects in short presentations on their orga-nisation and on the context regarding the “Shared Knowledge Basis Report: Urban Resilience”:

1. Presentations on the following partners: POLIMI and POLIEDRA.

Presentation on state of the art in Italy

2. Presentations on the following partners: UC and UDEC.

Presentation on state of the art in Chile

3. Presentations on the following partners: UFPA and UFABC.

Presentation on state of the arte in Brazil

4. Presentations on the following partners: UNIBAGUE, UT and UNAL.

Presentation on state of the art in Colombia.

The Federal University of Pará and the Universidade Federal do Abc Foundation were not able to attend the meeting, although they did send their PowerPoint presentation for the rest of the parti-cipants to have them.

After a short break at 16.00 PM, participants' presentations continued in the following order:

5. Presentations on the following partners: UDELAR. (See Annexe)

Presentation on state of the art in Uruguay.

6. Presentations on the following partners: CRIC, UTE and UTEQ. (See Annexe)

Presentation on state of the art in Ecuador.

7. Presentations on the following partners: UTWENTE. (See Annexe)

Presentation on state of the art in Netherlands

8. Presentations on the following partners: UIM and UPO. (See Annexe)

Presentation on state of the art in Spain.


PROJECT SUMMARY AND INTRODUCTION OF THE MEETING DAYSWednesday, 22nd February 2017

This session (Wednesday, 22nd February 2017) was dedicated to the presentation of concept maps and a workshop intended to demonstrate how they can be useful tool in higher education. Flavio Camerata explained the presentation and it has focused on concept maps as a tool for develo-ping “meaningful learning”, intended as a means for acquiring new knowledge starting from one’s own previous knowledge. In the second part of the presentation, the CARE project, its objectives and its method have been illustrated using another, specific concept map, in order to provide a further example of how such tool can be used.

Richard Sliuzas (TWENTE) talked also about what Fuzzy Cognitive Mapping is and which methodo-logy used. FCM is a soft computing technique capable of dealing with complex systems incorpo-rating human knowledge and reasoning process. It can include uncertain and ambiguity descrip-tions. FCMs represent knowledge in a symbolic manner and relate states, variables, events, outputs and inputs in a cause and effect approach.

FCMs have been applied in a wide field of complex socio-environmental systems, because mana-ging those systems means dealing with multiple challenges that may be answered by FCMs.

After being introduced to the concept mapping and meaningful learning method, partners have been involved in specific concept mapping exercises, having a twofold purpose: letting the part-ners become familiar with the method on the one hand, and producing some preliminary material to be used as input for the Cmap 1.0 on the other.

The participants have been divided into five groups according to their fields of expertise, intended as contributions to urban climate resilience:

- Strategic planning;

- Participation and involvement strategies;

- Context analysis and monitoring;

- Risk management;

- Urban/rural relations.

Two exercises have been proposed to the participants:

- The first exercise was aimed at defining, in general terms, how each of the five fields of knowledge can contribute to urban climate resilience; each group has been asked to brainstorm on the focus question “How does my field of knowledge contribute to urban climate resilience?”, and to prepare a 5-minute presentation to the audience explaining the outcomes of the group work;

- The second exercise was aimed at preparing a concept map on the same focus question, based on what previously discussed in the brainstorming exercise, and to present it to the audience in the end; groups have been recommended to follow the concept mapping steps:

− Reading the focus question in order to identify the scope of the map;

− Listing concepts that are relevant to the focus question;

− Connecting the concepts through meaningful linking phrases;

− If necessary, grouping the concepts into nested nodes and adding cross-links between different sectors of the map.


PROJECT SUMMARY AND INTRODUCTION OF THE MEETING DAYSThursday, 23rd February 2017

The first part of the morning was dedicated to go in depth in the following issues that were discussed during the first and second day but that needed further clarifications:

• Project’s management plan and detailed work-plan.

• Data collection and sharing.

• Creation of a Quality Board.

Financial management issues were also addressed and how the partners’ budget needs to be used. A specific budget breakdown was given to each partner and then revised specifically regar-ding:

- staff costs,

- travel costs,

- costs of stay,

- equipment

- subcontracting.

On the second half of the day, a third concept map exercise was organised based on the project’s activities and Work Packages dividing the workshop participants into 3 groups regarding WP2, WP3 and WP4. Include a summary of the exercise from Flavio

During the fourth day, Josefina López Galdeano talked about the Quality Plan WP CARE project.

• Process 1: Planning WP1 → Strategic direction, identification of requirements and quality standards (project and work packages), documenting how the project will achieve those standards.

• Process 2: Performing WP2 → Performing quality assurance activities.

• Process 3: Controlling WP2 → Monitoring and registering of quality control activities.

Quality Plan is included in the Work Package 3.1 and describes how the quality policies will be im-plemented and how the project team plans to meet the quality requirements of the project.

About Work Package 3.1:

• The WP3.1 aims at assessing the overall quality of the project outputs and activities.

• The consortium will establish a Quality Board, formed by 1 representative for each partner

• The quality board will be in charge of conducting the assessments and reporting their results to the Steering Committee.

About Work Package 3.2:

• Quality assessment of workshops will be conducted through evaluation questionnaires.

• The Quality Board will analyse the questionnaires and report to the Steering Committee.

• Quality assessment of collaborative tools and open educational resources.

• Cooperation activities will be assessed through a specific checklist and analysing their causes. Adjustment measures will be put in place accordingly.

The quality Board (QB) is formed in the kick-off meeting and it is composed of one member from


PROJECT SUMMARY AND INTRODUCTION OF THE MEETING DAYSeach country or partner. For Quality Plan is necessary that the QB should create the quality mana-gement, monitoring and evaluation system, the evaluation process, the set of indicators, selected measures will be implemented within the first year of project and the evaluation will concern all Work Package. The QB will focus on assessing activities and deliverables, both in terms of quantity and quality and approving WP or establishing corrective actions. Tools for assessing quality of the activities carried out during the life of the project will be:

• Checklists prepared in order to monitor the progress of the project. Checks will be carried out every three months according to the project Schedule and the actions planned

• Evaluation Questionnaires, in order to monitor:

1. Design of WP and OER

2. Documentation.

Friday, 24th February 2017

The last session (Friday, 24th February 2017) it was only in the morning. This session was a summary about the kick-off workshop that included a revision of the second output to be prepared by the partners “The Sharing of knowledge is the most important part of the document that will include the following parts:

A. State of the Art Report: A state of the art analysis will be conducted with the active collaboration of all partners, focusing on the educational options on risks related to climate change currently offered at the University and post-graduate level in the involved countries, of the legal framework and of the situation of the job market, highlighting current orientations and deficiencies.

1. Reduction of risks related to climate change, resilience strategies, thematic networks and Integration with spatial planning.

2. Legal framework

3. Devoted funding

4. University curricula: offer of educational courses

B. Common problems, issues and challenges


ANNEXE 1. Summary of the presentation of Politecnico di Milano (POLIMI) and the POLIMI working group.

Politecnico di Milano was founded in 1853 and it is a scientific-technological university which trains engineers, architects and industrial designers. The University has always focused on the quality and innovation of its teaching and research, developing a fruitful relationship with business and produc-tive world by means of experimental research and technological transfer.

The contributions to CARE working activities by POLIMI working group are the integration of the thematic fields (enhancing resilience of urban areas and communities, mitigation and adaptation to climate related natural hazards, mitigation and adaptation to hot waves, energy, sustainability and resilience in buildings and built environments, mitigation and adaptation to the increase of air and water pollution) in the concept maps and objects of the education and training activities, the development of didactics modules and training programs, the e-learning and web-based educa-tion and training.

. Summary of the presentation of POLIEDRA-Politecnico di Milano and its working group.

Poliedra is a private consortium at Politecnico di Milano, consisting of 24 people with research and training activities in the fields of environment, sustainable mobility, landscape and culture, partici-pation and decision aid.

They adopt approaches, methods and tools based on registering the territorial dynamics occurring within the environment-landscape system, aiming at enhancing its resilience and countering its vulnerability. They have a deep knowledge of multi-criteria and multi-actors decision aiding metho-dologies and of their specific use in territorial decision making processes. Such approaches shape the development of methodologies and guidelines, and the activities of training and consulting.

. Summary of the presentation Shared Knowledge Basis Report Italy by POLIMI and POLIEDRA.Main national strategies and actions concerning urban climate risk-reduction and urban climate resilience

• Monitoring of climate and climate change impacts by building monitoring networks and multi-level database

• Reinforcement of scientific research to identify effective adaptation actions (ecosystem, infrastructural, technological, short and long term, ...)

• Construction of general frameworks of national interventions to facilitate the monitoring and the identification of priorities (Italia Sicura)

• Resilience as overall development topic of the potential of cities and territories and as sustainable development factor (SNSvS)

• Activation of the insurance industry in the risks management and adaptation

Main regional and local strategies and actions concerning urban climate risk-reduction and urban climate resilience

• Implementation of synergies between measures of adaptation, mitigation and sustainable development

• Reduction and management of disaster risk and implementation of adaptation measures

• Interaction with planning tools (resilience in planning)

• Urban Innovative Actions and Nature Based Solutions shaping urban policies


ANNEXE 1• Increase of involvement of inhabitants and scientific community in the resilience strategies

and actions

• Promotion of sustainable lifestyles

• Spread of spontaneous, local and context-based initiatives, to be recognized and to learn from

. Summary of the presentation of Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile.

The Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC) was founded on June 21, 1888. The University aims for its students to be not only technically and scientifically prepared, but also to be open to different human realities and to the social and personal responsibilities involved in the complete development of a society.

The University has four campus in Santiago city: Casa Central, San Joaquin, Lo Contador, and Orien-te, and one campus at Villarrica city (Araucania region). The University has 22,654 undergraduate regular students, 3,098 graduate regular students, 942 PhD regular students. Is compounded by 18 Faculties, 31 schools and institutes, which offer 100 undergraduate programs, 88 graduate pro-grams, 50 Majors, and 35 PhD programs among others specialities. Nowadays PUC reached 147 QS World University Rankings, one of the three most best performance in the Latin American Universities.

The academics units involve in CARE Project are Geography Institute (Faculty of History, Geography and Political Science) and Urban Studies and Territorial Institute (Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urban Studies).

. Summary of the presentation of Fundacao Universidade Federal do Abc (UFABC)

UFABC was created in 2006 as a direct result of broader mobilization in the region as to the need to democratize the access to university education. Entrance into the UFABC is organized around two interdisciplinary bachelor's courses: the Bachelor in Science and Technology (BST) or the Bachelor in Science and Humanities (BSH). The Spatial Planning and Environmental Engineering are related areas with CARE Project.

Brazilian has structural problems with polluted rivers, floods and flash floods independently of clima-te change. These problems are related with the precarious and incomplete urbanization. However, the climate changes have increasing the extreme events - droughts and rain (floods) - and increa-sing urban risk and vulnerability. Resilience is a new concept and strategy to deal (to face) with this context.

Summary of the presentation of Federal University of Pará Team (UFPA)

UFPA was established in 1957, oldest and first institution of higher education in the North of Brazil (Amazon Region). It is the largest academic University in Amazon in size and also in student numbers (70,000 undergraduate; 6,000 graduate students and 4,900 faculty members).

UFPA has a specific Graduate Program in Environmental Risk Assessment and Management (PPG-GRD), on-going into its Geosciences Institute, which addresses this wide thematic. The University also deals with environmental risks in Geography, Geosciences, Environmental Sciences, Anthropology, Architecture and Urbanism, Engineering, Political Sciences, Economy, Law and Planning Develop-ment Graduate Programs. PPGGD was open in 2015 using installed competencies.

Challenges: the nature of risks in Amazon Region.

• Social vulnerability


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• Water Contamination

• Fragile institutionality. Lack of governance capacity at local level (size of municipalities, diversity of interests of land controllers, low capacity of planning and design according to regional demands)

• Lack of reliable information (flow rates, historical series data), urbanization on unsuitable sites, improvisation, unsuitable constructive systems.

• Lack of adequate skills inside public sector and also ofrespect to old knowledge after dis ruptive modernization changes reduced ancient resilience and has increased disasters in urban areas. Case of Abaetetuba: a crater opened oversecondsswallowing severalhouses.

. Summary of the presentation of Universidad de Ibague (UNIBAGUE), University of Tolima (UT) and Universidad Nacional de Colombia (UNAL)

It is a university that contemplates several branches of study such as engineering, environment, eco-nomics, social sciences and politics. It also has several Masters and specializations of several topics.

The Academic and research capabilities are grouped in 6 topics:

• Innovative AgroIndustry (based).

• Conservation and eco-efficient use of natural resources and the environment.

• Industry of services of high added value.

• Education and wellness for integral human development.

• Laws and justice for citizen coexistence

• Inclusive and sustainable regional development.

The University of Tolima reflects its interest in the environment as teaches various degrees of agro-nomic, forestry, environmental, biology and several master's degrees in environmental sciences, agrifood, environmental education, etc.

The National University of Colombia located in the city of Medellin is among the 300 best universities in the world and the tenth of all Latin America. The Medellin sectional academic and research ca-pabilities are group in ten topics:

• Sustainable rural development

• State and Society

• Patrimony, culture and art

• Biotechnology

• Infrastructure

• Industry, economy and organizations

• Environment and biodiversity

• Basic Science

• Mining and Energy

• Habitat, city and territory.


. Summary of the presentation of Universidad de la República (UDELAR)

Founded in 1839, Universidad de la República (UDELAR) is the oldest state-owned, free and co-go-verned university in Uruguay. UDELAR attends an 85% of university students in the country.

In order to maintain the growth of the economy Uruguay diversified its economy, as well as create free taxes zones, and promote direct investments in intensive productive areas, as agriculture with agro toxics, tree planting, and Real Estate business. The consequences of these investments for the environment, in particular for landscapes and natural resources, are of high and negative impact.

Climate change came in addition to this environmental critical situation, forcing research centre and governments to prepare National Systems in order to answer the increasing emergency situa-tion in the country. Urban areas are becoming a priority for the frequently floods on one hand, with the forced eviction of informal settlements near the urban rivers, as well as storms, great winds and extreme temperatures on the other hand, that affects the whole population. Both are caring out many problems for the safety of the urban environments, which are not originally build at all to deal with these extreme conditions.

Shared Knowledge Basis Report: Urban Resilience Uruguay: Contemporary problems related to resi-lience and the perception of vulnerability and risks → Extreme climatic events (floods in cities), sus-tained tourism growth (Coastal urbanization not compatible with its dynamics), increased pollution by automotive and river transport

. Summary of the presentation of Universidad Tecnológica Equinoccial (UTE), Universidad Tecni-ca Estatal de Quevedo (UTEQ) and the Centro Regionale d’Intervento per la Coorperazione Onlus (CRIC)

Universidad Tecnológica Equinoccial, also known as UTE, is a private university created in 1971 and located in Quito, Ecuador. The University has evolved from a technical institute into a recognized university in Ecuador. In 2017 UTE celebrates 46 years of institutional life.

The University has bachelor and master degrees and is composed of 6 faculties: Hospitality and Ser-vices, Architecture and Urbanism, Communication Arts and Humanities, Engineering Sciences and Industries, Administrative Sciences, Health Sciences.

The Environmental and Risk Management career studies topics related to climate resilience in its curriculum. The last levels of the career have activities related to this topic, cooperation and agree-ments with major public and private institutions. Furthermore, research is performed within institutio-nal projects and along the end of career thesis.

The Centro Regionale d’Intervento per la Cooperazione Onlus is a non-profit association founded in the South of Italy in 1983, which since its beginnings has conceptualized International Cooperation as South-South Cooperation among South Italy and the other Souths of the World. Innovative initia-tives in several provinces and cities of the country aimed at:

• Improving community & institutional preparedness capacities (community emergency plans and committees, trainings, response brigades, etc.)

• Production of risk maps and Risk Reduction plans

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ANNEXE 1• Innovative works of mitigation (adaptation), in particular of Bio-engineering (with UTE in

Santo Domingo and in Quito)

• Protection of livelihoods and resilient agro-food production systems: agroecological diversification (with UTEQ in the Province of Los Ríos and at national level: formations and promotion of pilot experiences) and sustainable artisanal fisheries.

The Technical University of Quevedo is a higher education institution located in Quevedo-province of the rivers in Ecuador. At the moment it is recognized as the first agricultural university in our coun-try and accredited by the council of evaluation, accreditation and assurance of the quality of the superior education. It was created by law published in official register n ° 674 of February 1, 1984.

The contribution made by the UTEQ to the CARE project is: Creation of a cartographic series (30 years) with climatic variables of temperature and precipitation.

• Detection and qualitative and quantitative evaluation of temporal space trends.

• Research groups are available to provide solutions to environmental problems

• The curricula cover research related to the functioning and problems of local ecosystems.

• Development of competencies for the sophisticated modelling of interaction between humans and nature in the context of climate change.

• To determine risks to the human health of the urban area to the air.

• Promote the reduction of degradation (use of renewable energies)

• Development of computer applications for managing and obtaining models for predicting possible climatic effects.

• Electronic dissemination of results of the affections of CC to the population.

. Summary of the presentation Shared Knowledge Basis Report Quito, Ecuador by UTE, UTEQ CRIC.

The Municipality of the Metropolitan District of Quito implements a series of actions to reduce vulne-rability and adaptation to the impacts of climate change, as well as reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, or mitigation.

1. Sustainable Mobility

2. Comprehensive climate risk management

3. Assessment and conservation of the natural heritage

4. Urban green grid (Increasing of green areas and sustainable buildings)

5. Integrated management of wáter

6. Integral management of solid waste

7. Energy efficiency and alternative energies

8. Consolidation of an envirionmental culture and good environmental practices

9. Awareness raising and knwoledge generation on climate change

10. Municipal environmental management (local normative framework)

. Summary of the presentation of Universiteit Twente (UTWENTE)

The department of Urban & Regional Planning & Geo-Information Management (PGM) is one of


the world’s foremost education and research establishments in geo-information science and earth observation. Contribute to capacity building in developing countries and emerging economies

Education - MSc courses:

• Urban Planning & Management

• Land Administration

University of Twente is currently involved in five E+ projects with four at ITC and one at the Centre for Higher Education Policy Studies (CHEPS).

. Summary of the presentation Climate change and Spatial Planning in the Netherlands by UTWENTE.

Four guiding principles of the Randstad 2040 structural vision are:

1. Living in a safe, climate-resilient and green-blue delta;

2. Creating quality through greater interaction between green (landscape), blue (water) and red (urbanisation);

3. Strengthening what is already strong internationally;

4. Powerful, sustainable cities and regional accessibility.

• Mitigation actions: typicallly international and national actors and major emitters (industry, transport, energy)

• Adaptation actions: more focus on local actors – local government, water boards, farmers, planners, architects, developers, citizens.

. Summary of the presentation of Unión Iberoamericana de Municipalistas (UIM) y University “Pablo de Olavide (UPO)

Latin American Union of Municipalities. United by a common language and by the desire to study the subject of the fortification of democracy and the decentralization of the routines of local terri-tories, the Latin American Union of Municipalities (UIM) is currently positioned as an International Or-ganization of PEOPLE, in a pluralist Sense, with legal counsel and a great acting capability, working for the construction of friendly and unified cities.

Our objectives for the past 20 years have been:

- To promote cooperation and exchange between municipalities, by interacting personally with local governments, their public servants, students and researchers of autonomy and local development.

- To encourage activities which assist the development of local autonomy.

- To stimulate citizen and local participation in the progression of our common interests.

- To defend municipal interests and their activities before national and international organizations.

- To prepare and respond to local steps.

Pablo de Olavide University (Universidad Pablo de Olavide (UPO) in Spanish) is a public university in Seville, Spain. UPO offers both undergraduate and graduate programs in the traditional majors, as well as in biotechnology, environmental sciences, humanities, labour relations, second language acquisition, social work, sports sciences, and translation

Pablo de Olavide University (UPO) was founded in 1997, making it one of the newest public univer-

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The university is named after the Spanish-Peruvian politician Pablo de Olavide (1725–1803), who contributed notably to planning the city of Seville.

The university is organized into seven faculties and schools:

- Faculty of Experimental Sciences

- Faculty of Business

- Faculty of Social Sciences

- Faculty of Sport

- Faculty of Law, Universidad Pablo de Olavide of Seville. Degrees in Law; Political Science and Public Administration; Criminology; and Human Resources

- Faculty of Humanities

- Polytechnic School

- Postgraduate Studies Centre

Spanish Context:

Reducing risk related to climate change and strategic resilience has several scales within the Eu-ropean framework. A first international scale involving the European Environmental Agency and IPCC Special Report and a second scale is the national scale in which the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries is engaged in food and environment, the Spanish National Plan for Climate Change Adaptation and the National Platform for Adaptation to Climate Change.

The regional scale involves the Regional Ministry of Environment and Land-use Planning, Andalusian Strategy on Climate Change, Andalusian Law on Climate Change and Andalusian Strategy of Ur-ban Sustainability.

The deficiencies and challenges are:

• Translating the best available scientific knowledge into effective public policies

• Integrating the challenges of climate change into the process of designing and implementing public policies in a transversal way

• Developing institutional mechanisms that allow adequate systemic responses;

• Improving the research and technological development capacities for resilience

• Integrating local capacities effectively. Regional and national networks in international exchange of climate change experience

• Improving the communication of risk

• Empowering citizens to respond against natural disaster (lack of information, education and preparedness)


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Instructions for partners’ presentations

Note: this guide intends to provide instructions on how to prepare your presentations planned for Tuesday 21st February in Seville.

Your presentations should give a preliminary insight into the issues that will have to be analysed in the “Shared Knowledge Basis Report”, as described below.

CONTENTS

The aim of these presentations is to introduce your organisation, your expertise and field of interest and start collecting information on the issues that will be included in the “Shared Knowledge Basis Report”.

Therefore, please include in your presentation information on:

A. Partner’s expertise, competences and field of interest within the urban resilience topic

B. Issues that will be included in the “Shared Knowledge Basis Report”, keeping in mind that this project must focus on the urban level (please see table below).

We suggest partners to coordinate their presentations with the rest of the partners from the same country, in order not to overlap. We also encourage partners to provide a shared presentation by country if you think it is more appropriate; in this case, your presentation can be longer accordingly to the partners involved.

TEMPLATE

Though the project has not developed a “corporate image” quite yet (ie. Logo), we kindly ask you to use the template sent to you for your presentations so we homogenise the presentations.

MAXIMUM DURATION

Since the consortium includes many partners, please give yourselves 5 minutes for your organisation’s presentation and interests and 10 to 15 minutes for your country presentation on the related issued.

In the case, you are not attending the meeting, please send us your presentation by Monday morning (12.00 H CET) so we can include them in the workshop’s materials.

We kindly ask you to be available for a skype video–conference on Monday from 14.00 to 18.00 hours and on Tuesday afternoon for the partners’ presentations.


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Theme to be covered by your presentation

Questions to be answered in your

presentation

Notes/examples

Reduction of risks related to climate change; resilience strategies; thematic networks

Does your country/region/local community address the issues of climate risk reduction, and if so, how?

Does your country/region/local community have specific policies, strategies, or even regulations on climate resilience? If it does, please briefly illustrate them.

Has your country/region/local community developed, or is it part of, thematic networks concerning climate risks and climate resilience? Please provide a brief description of the initiatives adopted at different levels.

Climate risk reduction can be considered as being part of the strategies of adaptation to climate change. The International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR, 2008) of the United Nations defines “Disaster Risk Reduction” as “action taken to reduce the risk of disasters and the adverse impacts of natural hazards, through systematic efforts to analyse and manage the causes of disasters, including through avoidance of hazards, reduced social and economic vulnerability to hazards, and improved preparedness for adverse events”. This definition concerns natural hazards in general terms and can of course include those deriving from climate change. The risk-reducing adaptation measures can be for example:

- including and implementing risk reduction as a national/regional/local priority;

- identification, assessment and monitoring of risks;

- implementation of early warning measures;

- development of communication and awareness-raising actions;

- increasing resilience in all sectors, e.g. spatial planning, infrastructure, water management, erosion control, etc.;

- increasing the effectiveness of emergency planning.

Resilience can be defined as “the ability of a social or ecological system to absorb disturbances while retaining the same basic structure and ways of functioning, the capacity for self-organisation, and the capacity to adapt to stress and change” (IPCC, 2007). Climate resilience is a subset of such definition since it concerns the “disturbances” deriving from climate hazards.

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“reduction of vulnerability”, “adaptation” and “resilience” can be subject of controversy since the concepts are similar. The above definition is provided only as a preliminary instruction and will probably be discussed during the workshop.

Thematic networks are an instrument to implement inter-institutional cooperation and integration of policies, which are essential in order to address such a cross-cutting issue as climate change. Such networks can be implemented e.g. by means of scientific and inter-institutional working groups.

Devoted funding Are there specific financial opportunities for initiatives addressed to reduction of vulnerability, adaptation, improvement of resilience?

Public funding granted from the national or regional level is the most obvious source, but you could also describe any other experience of funding mechanism involving private funds, such as public/private partnerships at local level.

University curricula Please provide a brief description of the offer of higher education concerning climate resilience provided by your organisation, or available in your region/country.

Please focus, if possible, on university courses specifically addressing this issue with an inter-disciplinary approach.

Deficiencies and challenges

Please describe the deficiencies identified in the responses to climate hazards developed in your country/region or city, and the challenges that you deem the most relevant.


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Exercises on concept mapping

22nd February 2017, 9.30 PM

During the third day (Wednesday), after being introduced to the concept mapping and meaningful learning method, partners have been involved in specific concept mapping exercises, having a twofold purpose: letting the partners become familiar with the method on the one hand, and producing some preliminary material to be used as input for the Cmap 1.0 on the other.

From the preliminary presentation of the concept mapping method: the CARE project interpreted and explained through a

concept map

The participants have been divided into five groups according to their fields of expertise, intended as contributions to urban climate resilience:

- strategic planning; - participation and involvement strategies; - context analysis and monitoring; - risk management; - urban/rural relations.

Two exercises have been proposed to the participants:


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- the first exercise was aimed at defining, in general terms, how each of the five fields of knowledge can contribute to urban climate resilience; each group has been asked to brainstorm on the focus question “How does my field of knowledge contribute to urban climate resilience?”, and to prepare a 5-minute presentation to the audience explaining the outcomes of the group work;

- the second exercise was aimed at preparing a concept map on the same focus question, based on what previously discussed in the brainstorming exercise, and to present it to the audience in the end; groups have been recommended to follow the concept mapping steps:

− reading the focus question in order to identify the scope of the map; − listing concepts that are relevant to the focus question; − connecting the concepts through meaningful linking phrases; − if necessary, grouping the concepts into nested nodes and adding cross-links between

different sectors of the map.

Exercise 1

The following pictures contain the presentations prepared by the five groups at the end of their brainstorming exercise.

Working group “Strategic planning”

Working group “Participation & involvement strategies”


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Working group “Strategic planning”


Working group “Context analysis & monitoring”

Working group “Risk management”


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Working group “Urban/rural relations”

Exercise 2

The following pictures contain the maps prepared by the five groups during the second exercise.



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Exercise 2

The following pictures contain the maps prepared by the five groups during the second exercise.


Working group “Context analysis & monitoring”



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Presentation on the Fuzzy Cognitive Mapping method

At the end of the day, Richard Sliuzas of University of Utwente gave a presentation of the Fuzzy Cognitive Mapping method, in order to provide a general overview of a different method used to represent knowledge.


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Presentation on the Fuzzy Cognitive Mapping method

At the end of the day, Richard Sliuzas of University of Utwente gave a presentation of the Fuzzy Cognitive Mapping method, in order to provide a general overview of a different method used to represent knowledge.


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Exercises on concept mapping

23rd February 2017, 12.00 PM

During the fourth day (Thursday), partners have been asked to divide into three groups in order to discuss on the contents of the project’s Work Packages, the activities to be implemented, and the outputs to be delivered. The first group has been asked to work on WPs 1 and 2, while the second and third group have worked on WPs 3 and 4 respectively.

The map illustrating Work Package 3 (Quality Plan), prepared by one of the working groups.

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