Abstract:

Smart Rehabilitation 3.0 is a 30 months long project co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union under Key Action 2: Strategic Partnership for Higher Education. The project aims to mitigate and cover the gap between educational offer and the social reality, by defining, a new professional profile of “Rehabilitation Expert” and the creation of homogeneous curricula, validated at European level, for the training of these experts, within the framework of higher education. The project has the participation of prestigious entities and universities, in addition to experts in the area.

Europe wants to rehabilitate millions of buildings between 2020 and 2030 to boost the economy, improve quality of life and achieve energy efficiency. Professionals in the sector must contribute with Rehabilitation Experts.

The construction sector has great potential for economic activity and job creation in the rehabilitation of the built stock and the restoration of built heritage. Multiple reasons reinforce this trend: aged European housing stock; improvements in energy efficiency; social demands on accessibility and comfort; patrimonial and identity value of the built fabrics and monuments; reinforcement of circular economy, impact of rehabilitation on the quality of life of people and social cohesion, among others.

All this, has led the European and world political leaders to establish agreements and to promote measures to encourage the rehabilitation activity from different perspectives and objectives. Despite of this, most European universities consider rehabilitation as a marginal discipline and do not train the expert professionals required by the sector.

The intellectual outputs that offer this innovate project are: development of training programs for a new professional qualification; professional profile as “Building Rehabilitation Expert” and syllabus in order to train these experts; creation of on line training courses with 4 Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) on rehabilitation and restoration through high-quality educational experiences; tools for the access to technological and innovative interventions in rehabilitation; and repository for “databases” and digital information on rehabilitation and restoration

Keywords:

University Networks, e-learning, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), Open Educational Resources, Digital Libraries and Repositories.