Intensive Courses
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What were the intensive courses?
SciCultureD fostered co-creative approaches, civic participation, a system thinking mindset and responsible innovation amongst educators, professionals, HEI students and academics to drive positive change and impact the wider community.
During the three ScicultureD intensive course, participants were trained to develop their resilience and multicultural understanding while diversifying their skill set in project management, transdisciplinary team working, design and systems thinking, entrepreneurship, creativity, scientific processes, innovation and arts-related skills.

- The courses used the Creative Pedagogies with a core focus on embodied dialogue, together with a learning-by doing approach around a central challenge that groups of participants will address.
- The training sessions used an open-ended educative approach to ultimately help diverse groups of participants to work together to address major societal and environmental challenges.
- One major take-away from this course was to go through a process of challenging your own perspectives and learn how to shift it with the inputs of other disciplines and backgrounds. It is ok to feel confused or frustrated during some activities: it is part of the learning process! Shifting your own perspectives means enriching your ideas and experiences with complementary ones that could lead to innovative solutions.
How were the courses structured?
The Schedule
The Schedule
The Theme of the Course
The Theme of the Course
The Process
The Double Diamond
Working in Groups
Home Groups
The Facilitators
Mentoring & direct inputs by the facilitators
Field Trips & Social Activities
Field Trips & Social Activities
Reflection Time and Feeback
Reflection time and Feedback
The future of sustainable educational communities for Greece
The future of sustainable educational communities for Greece was at the heart of this 5-day intensive course from the 20th to the 24th June 2022, in Athens, Greece, hosted by ScienceView. Participants worked in groups on a project to challenge their views of sustainable educational communities for Greece of today and what it could be in the future.
By working in transdisciplinary teams and using the Design Thinking approach & the creative pedagogies, they investigated the future of sustainable educational communities in a country that changes and has just surpassed a great economic crisis.
They saw the topic from various perspectives with a specific challenge: developing an innovative proposal for how sustainable communities in Greece could evolve and address the global challenges related to sustainability and green transition.
Why does transformation need Third Places and how can they be designed?
Third places are open spaces that differ from the two other environments we live in private homes and workplaces, schools and universities. Examples of third places include cafes, maker spaces, public libraries, bookstores, and arts organizations like galleries, theaters, and museums but also “virtual spaces” that offer accessible meeting opportunities on a “neutral ground”.
From the 8th until the 12th of May 2023, SciCultureD participants from different backgrounds and stakeholders from the city of Bochum developed and co-created innovative ideas on how to create “Third Places” as centres for more inclusive, participatory and sustainable communities. The course was hosted by city2science.
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How can communities become co-creators of green, inclusive and just cities in urban contexts?
From the 15th until the 19th of April 2024, the SciCultureD’s third intensive course invited 26 participants to explore ansswers to this challenge in the context of a post-colonial country such as Malta, with the cultural and built heritage that it entails. The course was hosted by the University of Malta.
In an era of complex urban challenges affecting environmental and social wellbeing, the very same cities can become the hubs of just and sustainable communities.
A place where people with diverging experiences, ideas, and perspectives can work together to create innovative partnerships between entrepreneurs, public institutions and civil society. Cities are spaces that can open doors to explore, discover and test ways towards better, healthier lives for those living in them.
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