Methods and techniques for governing resilient cities. Towards integrated risk management

In a world increasingly affected by significant challenges, it is becoming more important to provide effective solutions to face the effects of environmental, climatic and socio-economic changes. This situation raises needs to get the advantage of all new capacities in dealing with such profound changes. Urban resilience approach is currently used to re-think cities in the face of multiple challenges, increasing their strategic ability to adapt in the short, medium and long term in the wake of United Nations’ major international policies towards the global sustainability governance promoted by the Sustainable Development Goals, the New Urban Agenda and the Paris Agreement. 

The one-year 2^nd level Specializing Master course aims at satisfying the rising request for new technical and managerial figures, providing students with the necessary tools to successfully respond to the changing needs of the work market. The courses are designed with the maximum flexibility possible, integrating the academic experience with a practical approach to subjects thanks to several partnership with national and international companies. The course is aimed at both Italian and foreign students, giving the participants a global vision based on technological innovation and close contact with the research world at the Polytechnic of Turin.

The one-year 2^nd level Specializing Master's Programme in Methods and techniques for governing resilient cities answer the need of a new technical expertise, embodied by the educational path of methods and techniques developed by the Interdepartmental Responsible Risk Resilience Centre (R3C) of the Politecnico di Torino, for the analysis of the vulnerability of territories and for the evaluation of the urban system's capacity to respond to natural and human risks in a resilience and sustainability perspective.

The course represents a unique opportunity for young graduates and professionals with a scientific and/or technical background to:

• acquire a full understanding of the dynamics underpinning the ongoing global changes in cities;
• learn multidisciplinary approaches to global changes on how to conceive and implement Urban Resilience Thinking, through planning and management practices;
• create a further space of in-depth knowledge of the skills and responsibilities to face a renewed role of the profession that requires regulating the anthropic transformations on the environment in a resilient perspective.

The master will not only train a new professional figure, expert in planning and project management of resilient territories facing the challenges caused by environmental, ecological, economic and social changes. It will offer a direct link with local institutions such as Piedmont Region, Metropolitan City of Turin, Province of Vercelli, Municipality of Turin, Municipality of Moncalieri, interested in hosting students for their internships and co-financing the training course.

More info - Open Call for the 3rd edition