1. To revise and upgrade selected GBI & NBS - relevant BSc, MSc & Ph.D. programs in PIs to make them end-user-oriented & policy-relevant, and develop 6 modules addressing GBI & NBS-related hotspots, that can be used interchangeably in tertiary & LLL education.

2. To develop shared URGENT Collaborative Learning Platform & online training services of the new generation for qualitative improvement of the education process & academic workflow support among universities & stakeholders across the PCs & EU.

3. To create sustainable feedback mechanisms for end-users, ensuring adaptive & practice-relevant teaching contents, knowledge co-production opportunities, and stakeholder support to post-project course development & teaching.​

4. To develop capacity for academic mobility, shared experimental facilities, and joint research by PIs & beyon

Business and policy communities will be targeted by annual academia-praxis national seminars and the formal URGENT collaborative platform to be established on the seminars. The national and international academic communities will be reached through annual international conferences followed up by special issues of high-impact international journals. Other outreach activities need to be proposed for this application as well.

The capacity-building action will be supported by equipment and software acquisition for HEIs in partner countries, and by training for academic staff, PhD students, IT and administrative staff. The training events will be on multidisciplinary research methodology, research tools (in particular geospatial) and project priority issues, on curriculum development and teaching tools and methods, and on ICT issues.

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5 URGENT cross-cutting themes identified for needs and capacities are:

•    Urban forestry,
•    Landscape architecture and phytodesign,
•    Urban permaculture,
•    Integrative smart green & blue urban planning,
•    Observation,
•    Information, and communication.