The RETIME project (Horizon Europe Innovation Action) aims to address impactful changes at both the contextual district level and individual homes of natural and human-caused disasters. It will introduce a data-driven tool that aggregates existing data from weather stations, sensor networks, and satellite images, automated on-site surveys to simulate the impacts of current phenomena and future projections. The innovative aspect lies in an advanced computational analysis that generates prospective scenarios based on socio-architectural and environmental studies, combined with local, territorial remote and on-site surveys.  

The InCITIES project aims to achieve the transformations of HEIs and their surrounding ecosystem centred around on cities’ needs of inclusion, sustainability and resilience. Its specific focus on widening countries (Portugal and Slovakia) will allow to overcome structural, sociocultural, economic, political and institutional barriers to transformation fostering. Addressing the European-global challenges of cities, InCITIES has 4 objectives: 1) Map institutional transformation strategies towards research-based sustainable universities including open science and career opportunities. 2) Build a long-term network of participating HEIs and surrounding ecosystems based on integrated knowledge HUBs. 3) Increase scientific, technological and staff capacity by sharing the best pedagogical, research, management and administrative practices in the consortium, and piloting leverages to widening HEIs. 4) Promote digitally driven universities by creating an open and innovative education and training platform in synergy with the project research and innovation agenda on inclusive, sustainable and resilient cities. The 5 methods jointly developed will set the foundation for the consortium role model: 1) Method for a common research map, 2) Capacity building actions based on the Learning by Developing pedagogical model, 3) Capacity building in talent scout and career opportunity strategy (attractiveness of research careers, including open science incentives), 4) Capacity building on equality, diversity and inclusion, 5) Methods to address enablers and barriers to integration of the InCITIES Alliance. From knowledge co-creation to joint production between European HEIs, surrounding ecosystems and citizens’ involvement, integrated actions play a key-role in achieving the consortium objectives. Capacity building actions implemented are a step towards the submission to the European Universities Initiative; it will strengthen the ERA, the EEA, and Europe’s approach to coope...

Cultural heritage is as a cultural right but not for all people. Built heritage is at risk in earthquake-prone areas or due to armed conflicts or uncontrolled house prices growth, such as in central metropolitan areas and tourist destinations. Underrepresented, partially demolished, or abandoned houses, humble constructions associated with biases or social stigma are also under threat. In these countless cases, overlapping memories and physical legacies are being lost. As a case in point amid this complex picture, we analyse traditional architecture with overhanging timber-based volume, known as casas de andares em ressalto, in three regions in Portugal (Northern Portugal, Central Portugal, Lisbon, and Tagus Valley). This construction system evolves into a set of more informed solutions during the post-earthquake rebuilding in the late 18th century. As a response of social distancing and disinformation on heritage sites, we propose a place-based learning based on advanced data information and visualization. This study raises awareness on the importance of preserving these memories and it promotes the use of timber-based design solutions. Speak_OVER also contributes to understand how best-compromise strategies of adaptive reuse can be implemented in future scenarios, involving critical stakeholders, such as homeowners’ rights groups, different heritage actors, tourist operators, and civic authorities.