Uforest - European Innovation Programme on Urban Forestry 4.0

1 August 2022

The purpose of European Innovation Programme on Urban Forestry 4.0 is to contribute to the development of UF entrepreneurial and innovation opportunities and attitudes by improving interdisciplinary skills. Uforest therefore, responds to the needs of a changing political and social economy, creating opportunities for new careers, fostering UF, through interdisciplinary learning and cross- sectors research-business cooperation.

The first part of the course “Nature in the City: Turning Knowledge into Urban Forestry Practice”, will provide innovative and transdisciplinary  knowledge on urban forestry topics. In the second part, called “Greening your city: Develop your Urban Forestry Project” will be provided advanced knowledge and specific competencies and abilities on Urban Forestry to train a new breed of professionals. This part is developed with a project-based approach: students are required to develop in groups a project on the design of an urban forest, that will be discussed and evaluated in an oral final exam.

The programme is structured in 2 different components:

  • “NATURE IN THE CITY: TURNING KNOWLEDGE INTO URBAN FORESTRY PRACTICE ” is organized in 6 modules of transdisciplinary and innovative lessons, held entirely online on the Polimi Open Knowledge platform
  • “GREEN YOUR CITY: DEVELOP YOUR URBAN FORESTRY PROJECT” is designed with a project-based approach: each one of the four modules of the course corresponds to a project on Urban Forestry thematic held and developed by each Uforest university.

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