Partnership

Promoter:

Wydział Inżynierii Lądowej Politechnika Warszawska, PL

The Faculty of Civil Engineering, Warsaw University of Technology

The Faculty of Civil Engineering was established in 1826 and thus is one of the three oldest faculties of Warsaw University of Technology (WUT). The Faculty employs 180 academic staff including 27 professors, 12 associate professors and 87 assistant professors. The Faculty cooperates on a permanent basis with: the University of Michigan in the USA; Gedyminas Technical University in Vilnius, Lithuania; Moscow Civil Engineering Academy in Russia and Dnepropetrovsk State Academy of Civil Engineering in the Ukraine, Liege University, RWTH in Aachen, Catholic University in Leuven, Research Institute in Lubljane and National Institute if Standard and Technology in Gaithersburg, Purdue University – USA, Minho University – Portugal, and many more. Research works connected with managerial qualifications and competences are run at the Department of Construction Technology and Management.

 

Partners:

Centoform, IT

CENTOFORM, set up in 2001, is a Vocational and Education Training Centre (VET) recognized with Quality Accreditation on training by Emilia Romagna Region, Italy, a region characterized by a strong dynamic economy with a sectoral focus on Mechanical engineering and important university research networks. During 15 years of activity the VET Centre created an operative multiregional and international network with SMEs, public institutions, VET schools, social partners, universities and R&D centres. It is partner of Confindustria, the main Italian industrial association, and it works in collaboration with representatives and clusters of productive sectors at national and European level. Centoform operates in 2 Italian regions: Emilia Romagna (Northern competitiveness region) and Apulia Region (Southern convergence region). Centoform designs and manages training programmes for unemployed and employed people working on ESF regional funds and interprofessional funds.

 

Association of Building Surveyors and Construction Experts, IE

The AEEBC was established in 1990 and represents Building and Construction Experts who are professionally qualified in the technological and management processes by which buildings are designed, constructed, renewed and repaired in accordance with the national legislation of individual countries. Their expertise includes building pathology; asset protection; design and specification of new buildings; construction and project management; building maintenance, repair and renewal; legal work and expert witness. Building Surveyors and Construction Experts provide consultant advice to property owners and users on the design, production, development, refurbishment, maintenance and repair of their properties. Their advice encompasses technology, management, economics together with the legal and environmental processes by which buildings are designed, constructed, improved and repaired.
The AEEBC is a member organisation and has various membership categories with Principal Members being the Governing Body of the association. The General Assembly meets twice year and appoints working groups and commissions from time to time to undertake specific tasks and projects.

 

Universidade da Madeira, PT

The University of Madeira (UMa) is a state university established in 1988, organized into 4 faculties and 2 schools: Exact Sciences and Engineering, Life Sciences, Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities and Health Higher School and Technologies and management Higher School. The University of Madeira has about 3000 students, 200 teachers and 175 non-teaching staff of which about 50 are research fellows. Between Bachelors, Masters, PhDs, Post Graduations and other courses more than 50 courses are offered. The mission of the University of Madeira is to be a university of international level, achieving excellence through education, research and service to its regional, national and international communities. The University of Madeira intends to prepare its students to be technically and scientifically competent citizens, educated, innovative and acting based on the values of transparency, justice, equality, fraternity and the sustainable development of the planet. The University of Madeira also contributes to the social responsibility through the promotion of volunteer projects, interaction with various civil associations, organization of cultural, social and artistic activities.

 

Özyeğin University, TR

Özyeğin University (OzU) strives to be the premier entrepreneurial research universities of Turkey. Its mission is to create, share, and apply knowledge in the service to society. At Özyeğin, we are motivated to conduct research that is relevant to real life, beneficial to the humankind and targeted to increase the quality of our daily lives. As a research university, we aim to educate future leaders through the process of discovery and creation of new knowledge. Our faculty members are active researchers, globally well recognized in their respective areas. They are experienced in applying their research results in building novel businesses. As a research university, Özyeğin has many active and completed supported grants and collaboration projects. The DRUM (Dynamic Research on Urban Morphology) research group focuses on the diachronic aspect or urban and territorial transformations; it welcomes the expertise of Architects, Urban Planners, and Urban Morphologists including broad interdisciplinary cooperation with other disciplines such as Geography, History and Archaeology. The research group aims to describe the dynamics of urban growth in different morphological and geographical settings by comparing a number of relevant case studies in capital cities. The research group applies the comparative method and other analytic tools, such as GIS, Space Syntax, Typological plans, Typological processes, and Conzenian analyses at different scales.

 

Polish Association of Building Managers, PL

PABM was formed in cooperation with AEEBC and CIOB – international organizations for the subjects and national European institutions – in order to educate and certificate the managerial building personnel. PSMB works on the non-profit rule. It does not exercise any privileges or the statutory membership imperative for particular professional organizations. The factual basis for the activity of the Association was formed with the support of the European Union resources in order to even out the qualifications of Polish building managers to the European standards and to prepare them to conduct business activity on the international market. The main aims of PSMB are as follows: Supporting obtaining the managerial qualifications essential in conducting professional activity in construction; Help in recognition of the managerial competences on the European Union market; Integration of the managerial activity in building; Cooperation with similar foreign associations.

 

MORE, IT

Software design and IT consulting for the realization of 3D Virtual Reality Rooms in every area and sector. More srl has been established in 2020 as result of a joint initiative made by Websolute spa (www.websolute.com), Cadland srl (www.cadland.it) and Nextlab srl (www.nextlab.pro) (leaders in their respective sectors). Websolute is one of Italy’s leading digital companies operating in the fields of digital technology and communication and digital marketing and commerce. Cadland is a technology integrator in the PLM (Product Lifecycle Management, CAD, CAM, CAE) sector. Nextlab is an innovative SME that provides planning and executive support to companies, to drive them in product and process innovation paths with activities of Research Development, Technology Transfer, Training and Qualification of Business Models. MORE s.r.l. is powered by a team with more than 20 years of experience in integration of eXtended Reality Solutions (Augmented, Mixed), Motion Capture Technological Infrastructures and Advanced Multimedia Systems More immediately position itself as one of the most expert, reliable and innovative companies in this specific sector.

 

University of Ferrara, IT

The University of Ferrara (UNIFE) is a public University whose mission is to provide excellent graduate and postgraduate education as well as researchers. Definitely, UNIFE aims at promoting industrial research and technology transfer, through its Technopole within the Emilia-Romagna High Specialization Network (www.regione.emiliaromagna. it/en/researchand- innovation/emilia-romagna-high-technology-network), promoting skills specialisation, encouraging and support the development of initiatives in the field of higher education and human resources development. The University of Ferrara local partnership includes the TekneHub (www.tecnopolo.fe.it/?lang=en) that is one of the four Laboratories of the Tecnopole of Ferrara, within the Clust-ER BUILD (www.retealtatecnologia.it/en/cluster), one of the first seven regional pubblic-private network in Italy focused on fostering Innovation, Industrial Research and Technology Transfer. The Clust-ERs are associations of public and private bodies: companies, research centres and training institutions that share skills, ideas and resources to support the competitiveness of the industrial system TekneHub works in the main field of advanced techniques and integrated digital technologies for refurbishment and restoration, innovative technologies for diagnostic and conservation, management and valorisation of the cultural heritage and ICT procedures to assess and preserve existing built heritage.