• Global/international perspective:

  INUCAPT provides ample opportunities to develop cross-border cooperation among European programme countries and partner countries in Asia and Africa. Given the Global South’s long-standing experience and expertise with difficult housing situations stemming from comparable socio-economic root causes, a broad exchange of knowledge in this area is highly commendable, “Learning” in INUCAPT implies harnessing the potential of South–North and South–South exchange over the eminent issue of affordable and sustainable housing.

  These innovative elements allow students to learn about skills, methods, and formats for community engagement intensively in “real life projects”, thereby apprehending crucial capacities and participatory reflection to bring about real-world changes for urban transformation on the ground.

• Innovative teaching method:

  INUCAPT is the only programme to integrate sustainability science, environmental and climate change studies, socioeconomics, policy applications, industry links, and lifelong learning to address complex global challenges at local levels. It offers students a set of unique features: 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:

  The INUCAPT programme offers 3 distinct study paths designed to address three different domains of inclusive adaptation to climate change in cities. In the first year, all students follow courses on urban ecological planning and the specific requirements of sustainably alleviating precarious housing conditions. For the second year, they then concentrate on one of the three distinct domains of Urban Management, Climate adaptation in cities, and Liveable Cities, applying their skills through practical research and a master's thesis. This study path structure ensures that students are equipped with both the specialised and transferable skills needed to succeed in a diverse range of careers.

• 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

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 (Specialization)

• 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