The Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Program INUCAPT will convey essential knowledge both for the Global South and the Global North in the following areas: Affordable and sustainable housing solutions for urban residents living in precarious conditions, inclusive city planning and management for informal settlements and slums, locally led climate change adaptation for the most vulnerable groups and participatory community engagement in transdisciplinary processes. The program is set to equip students with the necessary skills to work on the globally relevant societal vision of building inclusive cities and urban agglomerations as outlined in the UN SDG 11 on inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable cities. INUCAPT will educate and train future urban professionals to design context-specific and appropriate interventions. This is highly relevant for promoting sustainable social transition in institutions and authorities of their respective countries and urban communities. These cutting-edge skills will empower graduates to support cities worldwide and their transition to social stability, especially under the conditions of climate change. Such education needs to acknowledge lived experiences of those affected directly by planning. Students learn how to empower communities, prioritize necessary improvements based on data-driven findings and advocate, negotiate and implement them as well as support decision making processes for locally led adaptation and resilience building.
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Students learn how to tackle the challenge of providing decent, affordable and sustainable housing to vulnerable groups of urban societies in participatory and democratic ways.

Dipl.-Ing. Dr.
Tania Berger

Head of Cluster "Social sPACe based research in built Environment" (SPACE)

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Benefit from our study program

  • Global/international perspective: Partner universities in Europe, India and Kenya, compulsory physical mobility (min. 2 mobilities), international composition of students, visiting scholars from all over the world, urban planning and housing policies in global perspective

  • Innovative teaching methods: extensive internship, fully integrated with the programme, “Dialogical spaces” for continuing exchange between students, researchers and NGO activists, case study-based and problem-based learning, project-led education, combination of individual and group examination formats

  • Specializations: students can choose between three specializations in the second year, 1st Track: Sustainable Urban Management and Governance, 2nd Track: Urbanism and Climate Change Adaptation, 3rd Track: Spatial Knowledge for Climate Transitions and Liveable Cities, specializations are provided by three universities in Europe, India and Kenya

  • Solution-oriented skills: using principles and theories of participatory planning, assessing the effects of global climate change on precarious housing situations, applying risk management tools in the built environment, assessing the possible uses and limits of ecosystem services, designing strategies to create thermal indoor comfort

  • global/international perspective

  • innovative teaching methods

  • specializations

INUCAPT is a four-semester (two-year) Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Program (EMJM). EMJM scholarship holders are exempted from participation fees. For self-funded students, charges apply as indicated.

Compulsory Modules

  • Urban Ecological Planning, from Theory to Practice - 30 ECTS
    Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway
  • Precarious Housing & Climate Change Adaptation - 30 ECTS
    University for Continuing Education Krems (UWK), Krems, Austria

Elective Modules

  • Sustainable Urban Management and Governance - 60 ECTS
    XIM-University (XIM), Bhubaneshwar, India
  • Urbanism and Climate Change Adaptation - 60 ECTS
    University of Nairobi (UoN), Nairobi, Kenya
  • Spatial Knowledge for Climate Transitions and Liveable Cities - 60 ECTS 
    University Twente (UT), Enschede, The Netherlands
Study Path
Tania Berger

Dipl.-Ing. Dr.
Tania Berger

Department for Building and Environment

Elisabeth Neumayer

Mag. Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Elisabeth Neumayer

Department for Building and Environment

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