Undergraduate students have the opportunity to join a week-long summer school on nature-based, sustainable, and resilient solutions to community recovery and climate change adaptation to strengthen cooperation between municipalities and universities. 

During the event, participants will work on a case study of the restoration of the campus of the Chernihiv Polytechnic National University. The attendees will work on proposing solutions in the field of sustainable, adaptive, and resilient restoration: buildings, social relations, public spaces, ecosystems, environment, and interaction between the city and the university. 

Throughout the school, participants will listen to lectures on approaches and technologies in the field of climate change adaptation, sustainable solutions for building rehabilitation and reconstruction, practices for strengthening local communities through the interaction of universities and municipalities, etc. Students will learn about the experience of Sweden, Spain, and Ukraine in the field of nature-based solutions. The teams will work on projects aimed at solving specific problems for campus restoration at different levels: technological, planning, and sociopolitical. 

The school will be held from 1 to 5 July 2024. 

Participants will work in hybrid formats: online and on-site. 

The on-site work will take place in Kyiv at the premises of NTUU KPI and in Chernihiv at the premises of Chernihiv Polytechnic National University. 

Languages of the school: English and Ukrainian. 

Participation in the school is free of charge.

The summer school “Shaping urban environments for tomorrow” is being implemented within the framework of the UniCities project funded by the EU’s Erasmus+ programme. The main objective of the UniCities project is to unlock the transformative potential of Ukrainian universities as catalysts and accelerators of systemic change in cities towards sustainable development and climate neutrality through interdisciplinary research, education, and innovation focused on societal challenges and cooperation. 

It is worth reminding that the project is being implemented by partner institutions: Royal Institute of Technology KTH (Sweden), Universidad Politechnica de Madrid, UPM (Spain), National Technical University of Ukraine Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, NTUU KPI 

(Ukraine), Chernihiv National University of Technology, CNUT (Ukraine), Academician Yuriy Bugay International Scientific and Technical University, ISTU (Ukraine), Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University, NLUU (Ukraine), Charitable Fund CANactions, All-Ukrainian Association of Local Government Authorities “Association of Ukrainian Cities”, Public union «Association of the engineers of stable energy technologies of Ukraine», Ukrainian Research Hydrometeorological Institute, UHMI.