
Urban Governance: Resilient and Smart Cities
Short or summer course

This course focuses on enhancing cities' resilience, enabling them to absorb and recover from external and internal shocks while maintaining essential functions. Collaborating with international experts, the course combines theoretical debates, practical experiences, real-life scenarios, and group work to examine cities' vulnerabilities across different regions. Discussions aim to answer: What must cities be resilient to? How can cities, as complex systems, adapt and be resilient? How can cities finance resilience? How can cities innovate using open data to enhance resilience?
The course also explores integrating smart city technologies with traditional urban planning knowledge. Participants learn how new technologies, such as IoT and AI, can be combined with low-tech (Lo-tek) solutions and traditional strategies to create more adaptive and resilient urban environments. This approach shows how both advanced and cost-effective technologies can address urban challenges sustainably.
Study visits to various relevant organizations and initiatives are selected based on participants' profiles and the most pertinent examples at the time. These visits offer practice-oriented learning and ensure that participants gain practical knowledge from Dutch best practices, including smart city and Lo-tek solutions, as encouraged by the UN 2030 Urban Agenda.
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At least 2 years relevant work experience
Proven profiencency of the English language (reading, writing and speaking)
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EU/EEAThe EU/EEA rate is the regular fee for students from within the EU/EEA. |
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Non-EU/EEAThe non-EU/EEA rate is the rate for students from outside the EU/EEA. |
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InstitutionalThe institutional rate is for all students who have already obtained a bachelor’s or master’s degree and who want to start a second programme leading to a degree at the same level or at a lower level. |
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9 Jun '25 | 9 Apr '25 | 7 Oct '24 |
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MENA Scholarship Programme (MSP)
The MENA Scholarship Programme (MSP) offers scholarships to professionals for short courses in the Netherlands.

