Course info

“Resilient Cities: Challenges, Risks and Response” is a cross-disciplinary course, provided through shared curricula under the 4EU+ University Alliance by Charles University, Heidelberg University and Sorbonne University. Under the umbrella heading resilient cities, it addresses risk processes and transformations that shape and challenge long-term urban and social development in European cities and require coordinated response and action. The course provides socially and culturally open-minded study environment sensitive to multilingual and multicultural contexts of Europe and plurality of views of teachers and students. Students learn to address complex societal challenges in an engaged, creative, innovative and entrepreneurial manner. Key competences acquired from learning: critically reflect and understand contemporary challenges (social relevance); analyse (based on data and evidence) and assess consequences (academic relevance), creatively approach, discuss and propose normative response (policy relevance).