Course: Urban Resilience Intensive Training 2021

Background
The Urban Resilience Intensive Training 2021 will bring together middle and senior researchers, practitioners and policymakers for two intensive weeks, 19th – 30th of July 2021. The training will aim to understand the resilience of cities; and respond to the need for systemic change in tackling global challenges, for just green recovery and green transition, with a specific focus on COVID 19 recovery and climate change interplay.
 

Objective
The training goal is to bring together multi-disciplinary knowledge and perspectives, from science, policy and practice, on urban resilience as well as cross-disciplinary themes. The training will build the necessary skills and competencies to respond to the need for systemic change to tackle global challenges with a system thinking approach, focusing specifically on socio-economic recovery from COVID 19 regarding effective governance, financial management, private sector engagement and long-term resilience planning.
As part of the programme, the participants are invited to join the urban resilience community of practice, a vibrant network of professionals that has been initiated by alumni from the 2019 and 2020 training programmes. The aim of the community of practice is to support peer learning and further collaboration.
 

You can find the full Call for Participation here and agenda and more information using this link.