1. SSCRI – Smart Sustainable City Regions in India
This is a recently launched project in partnership with the School of Planning and Architecture (SPA) in Delhi, funded by the Norwegian Centre for International Cooperation in Education (SIU). Funding is provided for the period 2017-2020.
The main components of the project are: 1) a student mobility agreement, which includes annual joint 3-months fieldwork in India and a summer school program for SPA students at NTNU, 2) PhD mobility agreement, 3) development of joint publications and 4) development of a joint online course.
2. Urban Contingency
This is a joint initiative of our department together with the selected researchers from the Department of Geography (NTNU); as well as staff at the Center for Development and Emergency Practice, Oxford Brookes University; the Falk School of Sustainability, Chatham University (Pittsburgh, USA); the School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi; the Norwegian Refugee Council, and the Norwegian Red Cross.
The proposed activities are: 1) mapping of approaches and theories in contingency planning, 2) identification of urban labs for development and testing of the framework, 3) development of the framework for contingency planning in the selected labs, 4) testing and refining of the framework, 5) preparation of a curriculum for the course on ‘Contingency Planning’ proposed in the program in the M.Sc. programme in Urban Ecological Planning, 6) development of a curriculum for the project with Chatham University, Pittsburgh, 7) elaboration of research applications for the further development of the Framework and 8) publications.
3. Internships for M.Sc. Theses.
