Education in Living Labs: Participatory Skills for sustainable Urban Governance

PS-U-GO will implement Urban Living Labs (ULLs) as educational spaces involving stakeholders from the quadruple helix to experiment and test ideas and solutions to urban challenges. The ambition o...

PS-U-GO will implement Urban Living Labs (ULLs) as educational spaces involving stakeholders from the quadruple helix to experiment and test ideas and solutions to urban challenges. The ambition of the project is to enable place-based civic participation to address issues of public concern in respect to common values. The aim is to equip students with advanced participatory and soft skills for sustainable urban governance through innovative education, set in real-life environments.

The project will review and map existing ULL methodologies and participatory approaches to establish a pedagogic framework of situated learning and a strategy for co-creation. Online and in-person training will prepare the students to take part in their local ULLs, which will be implemented in four cities: Cottbus, Naples, Nicosia, Petralia Sottana (Palermo). The ULLs will be accompanied by a process of reflection - through qualitative research - and formal validation of educational outcomes.

The key results of the project will be: a) the co-creation of urban solutions and interventions in four ULLs in European cities and b) the development of advanced participatory and soft skills of students and other stakeholders. The achievement of these results will be supported by a series of outputs, including a framework for situated learning in ULLs, a co-creation handbook, context-sensitive ULL methodologies, an online manual for participatory skills and a booklet for each ULL.