After successful completion of the course, students are able to...

After successful completion of the course, students are able to...

• understand the vision of "Positive Energy Districts" in general;
• repeat a workflow that was practised in an existing district ...
• ... that includes realizable transformations on the dimensions of heat, electricity and mobility;
• use methods of integrated spatial and energy planning, GIS and PED governance
• understand that not everything can be optimized anywhere, but to judge planning variations per settlement that may carry out a good environmental and social impact

Topics

• climate change
• energy saving
• renewable energy
• mobility
• urban and regional planning
• integrated planning approaches
• scenario- and backcasting methods
• energy governance 

Setup:  

A Group of about 30-45 Students will meet, learn and research together. There is one obligatory practice week in Belgrade or Novi Sad (20. t0 26. of october 2024), before and after that the groups are working online and/or in their country. We also will offer guest lectures during the practise week, and also before and after it. The course is held in English. Erasmus students are welcome and preferred in the application.

Here the result of an older, smiliar course! 

The course is a cooperation of the following universities:

• University of Technology, Vienna, Austria. Coach: Hartmut Dumke. Main Course Expertise: Integrated Spatial and Energy Planning

• Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia. Coach: Milan Husar. Main Course expertise: P.E.D.

• Faculty of Geography, University of Belgrade, Serbia. Coach: Aleksandar Djordjevic. Main course Expertise: GIS

Tasks for the groups (3 P per group, 1 each from AT, SR, SK)

• Overall development concept
• Display connections, relation to the surroundings, inside-outside
• Understand and display land use, building functions, public spaces, activities and new uses (both from NOW and in a FUTURE estate)
• Use social aspects, user groups, dynamics and appropriation of space to support the realizations
• Visiting and participating in lectures and workshops (via zoom or ms teams conferences) before and after the main seminar week 

• district inventory
• visioneering and backcasting
• governance analysis
• future congress (plenum presentations and - discussions)

• A mental map of the ideas
• Poster presentations at the end of the week in SK
• Presentation at the end of the workshop
• Visonary Result Report
• ...further products to be announced ...