Back2Future

M6 – The final transnational project meeting at AUTH, Thessaloniki, Greece.

Second day of the final conference of the Erasmus+ Project Back to the Future – Building with Sustainable Local Traditional Materials
Topics of today's sessions were:
Sustainability in Architecture, Sustainable Materials and Environmental Aspects of Materials..
Thank all participants and lecturers for great presentations!

First day of the final conference of the Erasmus+ Project Back to the Future – Building with Sustainable Local Traditional Materials
Thematic today sessions were:
Project-based learning methodology and Sustainable Materials.
Thank all participants and lecturers for great presentations!
We invite you tomorrow!
https://sites.google.com/fct.unl.pt/back2future/news/conference?authuser=0

The final conference of the Erasmus+ Project Back to the Future – Building with Sustainable Local Traditional Materials (Back2Future) will take place at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, 21-22 June 2023.
Thematic sessions of the conference:
• Project-based learning methodology-Sustainability in education
• Case studies of sustainable construction
• Green practices in traditional and modern buildings
• Energy and environmental performance of buildings-Life Cycle Assessment
You can register to the conference by filling in the registration form (no registration fee is required), and you can participate also online.
You can find all the information about the conference (program, e-book with the abstracts, link to follow the conference online) here: https://sites.google.com/fct.unl.pt/back2future/news/conference?authuser=0

International Back2Future workshop at the Faculty of Architecture of the Cracow University of Technology. The C7 workshops took place in February 27 to March 8, 2023. at the Faculty of Architecture, PK.

Back2Future Conference
21-22 June 2023, Thessaloniki Greece
Reminder - Call for abstracts

The deadline for the subsmission of abstracts of the Back2Future Conference is getting close! The deadline to submit an abstract is: February 28, 2023.
The final conference of the Erasmus+ Project Back to the Future – Building with Sustainable Local Traditional Materials (Back2Future) will take place at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, 21-22 June 2023.
Thematic sessions of the conference:
• Project-based learning methodology-Sustainability in education
• Case studies of sustainable construction
• Green practices in traditional and modern buildings
• Energy and environmental performance of buildings-Life Cycle Assessment
We would like to invite you to submit your abstract until the 28th of February 2023.
You can register to the conference by filling in the registration form (no registration fee is required).
Information about the event, abstract templates and registration you can also find on our website back2future.
https://sites.google.com/fct.unl.pt/back2future/news/conference?fbclid=IwAR2cWjy5gC1rYhN7FBIon8lL9ZFUi8ehPQHjTmN-VnzGVEuahvZ7YoYIVNM

On January 16 and 17, 2023, an international meeting M5 took place. The meeting was organized by NOVA School of Science and Technology of NOVA University of Lisbon (FCT NOVA), in Lisbon, Portugal.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! 🎄

Back2Future Conference, 21-22 June, 2023, Thessaloniki - Greece
more info:
https://sites.google.com/fct.unl.pt/back2future/news/conference

M4 – The fourth transnational project meeting at Vilnius Tech, Vilnius, Lithuania, October 2022

C4-C5 – Intensive training course at Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania, October 2022

M3 – The third transnational project meeting at AUTH, Thessaloniki, Greece, June 2022

C2-C3 – Intensive training course at NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal, November 2021

C1 – Intensive training course for teaching staff at VIA University College, Denmark, September 2021

From 1880s two new building materials, steel and concrete, have been introduced, replacing traditional and locally produced materials, such as clay, wood, stone, straw, cork, etc. Steel and concrete are advanced materials, but they also embodied with a great amount of energy and greenhouse gas emissions in their production process. In fact, steel and concrete represent 3% and over 5% of human greenhouse emissions on Earth, respectively. 8% of the entire human gas emissions come from these two materials only. The statistics show that almost 50% of CO2 emissions are related to the building industry sector. Moreover, the statistics show that, with the rapid increase of the Earth’s population, over 3 billion people will need a new home in the next 50 years.

In order to solve the aforementioned problems, a new project, Back2Future, is proposed, which will introduce a strategy for implementing sustainable traditional local sourced materials containing recycled and industrial waste products into the building industry sector through education of undergraduate students. The project will fully comply with EU Commissions’ innovative laws for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and net zero carbon (CO₂) targets for 2030 and 2050.

The countries participating in the project, Portugal, Denmark, Lithuania, Poland and Greece, will provide a good balance and a cross-section of the EU regarding building traditions and climate.

Project Back2Future aims at development and delivery of an innovative trans-disciplinary e-learning course “Building with Sustainable Local Traditional Materials” by using studentcentered project based learning, learning by doing and blended learning approaches.

Objectives:

1) to introduce innovative educational methodology, based on student-centered project based learning, learning by doing and blended learning approaches;

2) to develop and deliver a new trans-disciplinary e-learning course on building with sustainable local traditional materials;

3) to educate and to provide practical skills/experience and knowledge to all participants (students, teachers, entrepreneurs) in sustainable locally produced building materials and buildability methods;

4) to ensure an open awareness of the project results and to introduce adapted traditional, national and local sustainable materials back into the construction sector in the EU, upgrading them for today's and future demands.

The main target groups are higher education institutions, in particular teachers and BSc/BA students, whose specialization is directly related to architecture, design, civil engineering, construction technology or similar subjects. Moreover, it is envisaged that the project will be relevant for business companies and will foster further development of sustainable construction with local building materials.

In frames of the project four intellectual outputs will be developed: 1) Educational Methodology; 2) E-Learning Course “Building with Sustainable Local Traditional Materials” (9 ECTS); 3) E-Learning Platform; 4) Best Practices in Building with Local Traditional Materials.

At least 20 teachers/trainers will participate in intensive training course in Denmark, where competences on innovative project based learning, learning by doing and blended learning approaches will be developed. New trans-disciplinary e-learning course and e-learning platform will be jointly developed by partners from five countries in consultation with business enterprises. The new course will be tested in three intensive learning/teaching courses that will take place in Portugal, Lithuania and Poland. International building and construction project phases, which are used in most EU countries, will be adapted in the project as a main template, namely Brief phase, Outline Proposal, Scheme Design, Detail 1 and Detail 2 phases. In total 90 BSc/BA students will be educated. Students will gain innovative trans-disciplinary knowledge in sustainable construction with local materials; using innovative learning approaches, they will develop their research, teamwork, communication and cooperation, creative thinking, problem-solving skills required in modern daily work environment.

Stakeholders whose activities are related to construction, i.e. associations and private enterprises, will be involved in the development of the new course; therefore, they will have an opportunity to share their expertise and include the topics that will help to acquire competences, required in labor market. In this way collaboration between academic and business sector will be strengthened.

At least 20 international and 50 local participants from HEIs, educational authorities and business companies will attend the international conference in Greece, where innovative intellectual outputs will be presented. It will result in increased public awareness about the outputs of the project.