Student-centred learning and learning ergonomics are becoming important
aspects of all types of educational institutions. By acknowledging the central
pedagogical and didactic position of educational institutions in separate countries,
the project partners wish to acknowledge their roles as adding to the ‘making’ of
citizens through higher education, cultural awareness. The process of making
graduates and citizens is an experimental continuum, allowing universities to
provide conditions for associational activities as well as perform a role of cultural
custodians by maintaining and revitalising cultural inheritances of the political
community, but also giving it direction. It is important to realise that higher
education institutions should not aim to undertake such activities on their own,
rather they should seek assistance from local and regional experts in the field of
pedagogics, urban methodology and cultural activities. While student-centred
learning is somewhat difficult to define in terms of its methodology and explicit
content, which is to be included, it is the key to adapting to a more diverse student
population and changing needs in terms of how education is conveyed. In order to
accommodate these ambitions, a re-examination of traditional pedagogy,
didactics and scholarship, including ways of how and where the learning and
teaching processes take place, is needed. The Universities, involved in this project
as partner organisations, will prepare piloting schemes of repurposing of
educational buildings and spaces, in order to begin the development and later
distribute it to a wider set of university environments. In addition, to this, they will
also host multiple day training seminars for potential multipliers of the project
results. The trainings will aim to educate on features of the developed model for
repurposing of educational buildings and spaces and how to implement/use the
model in their faculties.