GreeNexUS is primarily a Doctoral Network project aiming to train specialists, whose cutting-edge and intersectoral expertise is developed and managed through a challenging general programme of training that combines and integrates the various fields of innovative knowledge of the GreeNexUS’ participants, and also includes career planning, entrepreneurship and soft skills training. So far, the 10 enrolled DCs have started their training-through-research activities balancing their time on developing the research topic, following local training, disseminating and communicating the project outcomes and joining the GreeNexUS events and other local and international events. Among the main network-wide events, the GreeNexUS training weeks are the most important ones as all the GreeNexUS participants meet. The 1st GreeNexUS training week was held at the Unibo in Imola (Italy, 27-31/05/24), opened by the workshop "Greening the City: Health for All”. Courses focused on life cycle thinking, green infrastructure, smart green city, asphalt biomaterials, citizens engagement, air pollution, spatial analysis, COVID-19 and communication. The Hackathon “Shaping the Green Urban Transition” organized by Unibo with the Municipality of Imola and speed dating activities allowed fruitful exchange. More recently, NTNU hosted the 2nd GreeNexUS training week in Trondheim (Norway, 20-24/01/25), opened by the workshop “Accessible urban pavements in all weather conditions”. Courses focused on monitoring, modelling and simulations, accessibility, sustainable active mobility, GHG, road issues in cold climates, participatory planning and job placement. On-site winter maintenance demonstration, Hackathon "Urban sweet mobility for work and leisure” and speed dating allowed fruitful exchange.
Other than the in person training of the GreeNexUS weeks, the 10 DCs participated in several scheduled online training imparted by the project participants by means of live lectures, videos and recorded presentations (on community building, networking, scientific writing, research reproducibility and data archiving, BIM, roads).
In terms of scientific dissemination, all DCs performed an initial literature review, planned the detailed workplan and carried out the first phases of the research, in their respective field of expertise.
The progresses of research are visible on video-pills available on the GreeNexUS project website:
https://greenexus.unibo.it/(öffnet in neuem Fenster)
