Know­ledge transfer

Work modu­le 8 sup­ports and exami­nes the know­ledge transfer bet­ween the rese­arch cam­pus and the (transfer) are­as, (expert) public, voca­tio­nal edu­ca­ti­on and EUREF cam­pus’ Mas­ters cour­ses. The transfer will be dri­ven by work­shops, sym­po­sia, publi­ca­ti­ons, lec­tu­re series and dis­cus­sions with inter­na­tio­nal guest sci­en­tists. New tech­ni­cal know­ledge and fin­dings from social-sci­ence sur­veys will be shared with the rese­arch cam­pus’ partners within the con­text of the net­work­ed ener­gy and mobi­li­ty tran­si­ti­on, the focus here being on deve­lo­ping cli­ma­te-neu­tral are­as and cities. It will take into account the requi­re­ments of the various play­ers in the transfer are­as, as well as the pos­si­bi­li­ty of inte­gra­ting net­work­ed mobi­li­ty and ener­gy solu­ti­ons into the are­as them­sel­ves. Empi­ri­cal stu­dies will be used to explo­re how inno­va­tions need to be appli­ed and adapt­ed in social spaces.

Know­ledge transfer from living labs like the EUREF cam­pus is geared around dis­se­mi­na­ting fin­dings and results from appli­ed, trans­di­sci­pli­na­ry rese­arch. The transfer rese­arch is focu­sed on deve­lo­ping a pro­po­sed transfer pro­cess – fac­to­ring in the par­ti­ci­pa­ti­ve and eco­no­mic frame­work con­di­ti­ons. This approach is to be used to prepa­re well-foun­ded recom­men­ded actions for envi­ron­men­tal­ly, eco­no­mic­al­ly and soci­al­ly accep­ta­ble transfer pro­ces­ses that pro­mo­te effi­ci­ent, net­work­ed sys­tems. Adap­ting the inno­va­tions crea­ted by the EUREF cam­pus’ living lab to the requi­re­ments of the respec­ti­ve are­as and fac­to­ring in various tar­get audi­en­ces in a par­ti­ci­pa­ti­ve man­ner are seen as rele­vant cri­te­ria for ensu­ring suc­cessful transfer to other are­as. In light of this, the work modu­le not only assists with know­ledge transfer, but also shares recom­men­ded actions with other are­as and their key players.

(Voca­tio­nal) edu­ca­ti­on is ano­ther con­s­truc­ti­ve lever for achie­ving the­se objec­ti­ves, inclu­ding over the lon­ger term. In future, cli­ma­te-fri­end­ly urban mobi­li­ty will par­ti­cu­lar­ly requi­re peo­p­le with the rele­vant trans­di­sci­pli­na­ry spe­cia­list and prac­ti­cal skills. The work modu­le thus fac­tors in know­ledge-sha­ring when it comes to edu­ca­ti­on for­mats. The WM’s task is to fil­ter over­ar­ching fin­dings from the rese­arch cam­pus, dis­cuss the­se with the rele­vant scientific and eco­no­mic partners, and inte­gra­te them into the uni­ver­si­ty cour­ses and voca­tio­nal edu­ca­ti­on through for­mats and edu­ca­tio­nal com­pon­ents tail­o­red to the spe­ci­fic tar­get audi­en­ces. This is whe­re the EUREF cam­pus’ Mas­ters cour­ses come in; they were deve­lo­ped as part of the first rese­arch pha­se and have sin­ce estab­lished them­sel­ves as inter­na­tio­nal­ly acclai­med MBA pro­gram­mes. The con­tent gai­ned will also be sys­te­ma­ti­cal­ly appli­ed to voca­tio­nal edu­ca­ti­on in a bid to ensu­re it also rea­ches the experts of the future.