Erasmus Mundus Joint Masters – Redesigning the Post-Industrial City (MSc RePIC)

ABOUT THE REPIC MASTER’S 

This exciting and unique new Erasmus Mundus funded Master’s programme (part of the UNIC alliance), wants to create an educational experience which recognizes and responds critically to issues of cities in different forms and stages of post-industrial transition and educate the next generation of specialists with the 21st century skills and knowledge needed to address the challenges and opportunities of cities in transition and superdiverse societies. 

This is an inter-university, multidisciplinary joint postgraduate programme, that uses the ECTS credit system to facilitate the recognition of qualifications and actively defines mobility periods for students between each of the University partners:

• Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Germany)

• University College Cork (Ireland)

• Universidad de Deusto (Spain)

• Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam (the Netherlands)

• Koç University (Turkey)

• Université de Liège (Belgium)

• University of Oulu (Finland)

• University of Zagreb (Croatia)

8 world-class universities that offer complementary teaching and research expertise in urban planning.

It is the ideal programme for professionals involved in the design, planning, management or evaluation of the city who want to join a vibrant knowledge and innovation community committed to the rethinking of more sustainable urban futures. 

RePIC’s vision is to develop a new network of urban thinkers with the capacity to contribute to future-oriented, avant-garde thinking on the revitalisation of the post-industrial city.
RePIC graduates possess advanced research, professional, digital design, and spatial analysis skills, can mediate between the spheres of experts and laypersons, academia, and citizens, equipped with broad knowledge in the various sub-disciplines of the field.Programme Objectives

The RePIC programme provides high quality academic education and professional competencies for excellent students, who are eager to specialise in subdisciplines of Urban Studies in a wider sense and who intend to build bridges into neighbouring disciplines, e.g., Law, Civil Engineering, Business, Sociology, Data Science, or Psychology.

After graduation you will have broad knowledge of:

• Urban transformations and urban design in a global perspective; and are able to apply this knowledge in practice, and across different jurisdictions,

• The interdependent human and environmental urban systems,

• Sociological and cultural approaches towards urban dynamics and actors, understanding major local and global historical developments influencing urban settings,

• Dynamics and processes involved in the revitalisation of post industrial cities from the social science, sustainability, and circular economy perspectives.

Importantly, through the programme courses and hands-on learning activities, you will be able to:

• Critically analyse and evaluate data found in the digital space and have insights into the foundation needed to apply data analytics to real-world post industrial urban transformation,

• Critically analyse factors influencing different spaces within urban settings but also an ability to compare between different cities,

• Deal with modern geospatial data resources (acquisition, maintenance, analysis, and cartographic visualisation of spatio-temporal transformation processes in urban areas),

• Communicate and translate between different professional orientations and cultures, learned to build up empathy, work with different social groups, to bring together different perspectives and to work in transnational teams, 

• Serve as curator of interdisciplinary transformation processes

• Think beyond boundaries and to explore and generate new ideas that can be applied to current and emergent needs.

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 program is offered annually and starts in the Fall semester (mid-September) 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 program 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: 

• RUB (Germany, Level 7 NQF): M.Sc. Redesigning the Post-Industrial City (RePIC), Joint Master Programme
• UCC (Ireland, Level 9 NQF): M.Sc. Redesigning the Post-Industrial City (RePIC), Joint Master Programme
• EUR (Netherlands, Level 7 NQF): M.Sc. Redesigning the Post-Industrial City (RePIC), Joint Master Programme
• KU (Turkey: Level 7 NQF): M.Sc. European Joint Master Redesigning the Post-Industrial City (RePIC)
• ULiège (Belgium: Level 7 NQF): Master en urbanisme et développement territorial, à finalité spécialisée en “Redesigning the Post-Industrial City (RePIC)”
• UOulu (Finland, Level 7 NQ): M.Sc. Redesigning the Post-Industrial City (RePIC), Joint Master Programme
• UniZG (Croatia, Level 7.1 NQF): For female students: Sveučilišna magistra iz Redizajna postindustrijskih gradova (univ. mag.). For male students: Sveučilišni magistar iz Redizajna postindustrijskih gradova (univ.mag.)
• UDeusto (Spain: Level 3 NQF): Máster Universitario Erasmus Mundus en Redesigning the Post-Industrial City