PROGRAMME
PROGRAMME OBJECTIVES
RePIC provides high quality academic education and professional skills for talented and committed students, who are eager to specialise in urban studies encompassing urban development, planning, policy and design perspectives, and who intend to build bridges into neighbouring disciplines, e.g., Architecture, Business and Law, Urban and Environmental Sociology, Urban and Regional Economics, (Spatial) Data Science or Psychology.
RePIC supports students and offers guidance to develop:
- The knowledge and understanding (theoretical and methodological approaches). Students gain a solid grounding in key theoretical frameworks and methodological traditions in urban studies, enabling them to critically analyse complex urban phenomena across scales and contexts.
- The intellectual, practical and transferable skills (“hard” research methods and techniques skills as well as “soft skills” such as intercultural and interdisciplinary communication). The programme develops a strong skill set spanning research design, data collection, analysis, and interpretation, alongside collaborative and communication competences.
- The professional values (responsibility, research integrity and ethics) required for successful completion of the programme. RePIC fosters a strong sense of ethical responsibility, academic integrity, and reflexivity in research and practice.
- The RePIC curriculum emphasizes cross-cutting issues and themes, supported by cross-curricular projects and boundary-spanning learning. It follows a spiral curriculum approach, with topics, subjects, and themes revisited and deepened iteratively throughout the programme. Sustainability is a central concept, as the UN 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda identifies cities as key drivers of sustainable development; and urban sustainability transformations lie at the very heart of our programme.
PROGRAMME STRUCTURE AND ACADEMIC DEGREE
The RePIC Joint Master Programme comprises four (4) semesters and is delivered over a period of 2 years (24 months). During these two years, you will encounter different cultures, languages, and distinct learning environments, and profit from cutting-edge expertise from each of the eight universities. The programme is offered annually and starts in the Fall semester (early October) and the language of instruction is English.
The focus of the research-led curriculum is the contemporary challenges posed in industrial heritage settings. Viewing the city as an experimental living laboratory, RePIC understands the post-industrial city as a complex system that is characterised by physical, political, and historical development paths, limits, and dynamic social, economic, ecological, and cultural vectors. The programme is interested in finding new learning and action practices in reconceptualising the civic, cultural, and socio-urban fabric of the post-industrial city. It adopts participatory approaches and methods - such as CityLabs, Urban Field-Classes and Engaged Research Practices - and fosters public-private-academic-societal partnerships in innovative learning activities that include structured project collaboration, social design studios, digital storytelling, and immersive design fictions.
Upon successful completion, RePIC's eight partner universities award graduates jointly the academic degree of a Joint Master of Science (M.Sc.) in “Redesigning the Post-Industrial City”. The graduate receives a multilingual diploma in the languages of all partners. The names of the qualification and title conferred are as follows:
M.Sc. Redesigning the Post-Industrial City (RePIC), Joint Master Programme
M.Sc. Redesigning the Post-Industrial City (RePIC), Joint Master Programme
M.Sc. Redesigning the Post-Industrial City (RePIC), Joint Master Programme
M.Sc. European Joint Master Redesigning the Post-Industrial City (RePIC), Exchange Program
Master en urbanisme et développement territorial, à finalité spécialisée en “Redesigning the Post-Industrial City (RePIC)”
M.Sc. Redesigning the Post-Industrial City (RePIC), Joint Master Programme
For female students: Sveučilišna magistra iz; Redizajna postindustrijskih gradova (univ. mag.).
For male students: Sveučilišni magistar iz; Redizajna postindustrijskih gradova (univ.mag.)
Máster Universitario Erasmus Mundus en Redesigning the Post-Industrial City
PROGRAMME ACCREDITATION
The programme is accredited by the AQAS “Agentur für Qualitätssicherung durch Akkreditierung von Studiengängen e.V” of Germany www.aqas.de. It complies with the requirements defined by the criteria and Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area (ESG) and the European Qualifications Framework (EQF). The programme is registered in the European database of accredited programmes DEQAR (www.deqar.eu). Additional national accreditation is in process at some partner universities and will be listed here in 2023-24.
