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The Urban95 Academy online course consist of two components, 15 online modules and 7 weekly live Zoom sessions.
Two to three modules will be released each week through the dedicated online learning platform: Learn Worlds. These sessions will have a mix of readings, videos, and assignments to view and complete at a time that is convenient to you.
In addition, there will be seven 60-minute live Zoom session each week with LSE faculty, guest speakers and fellow cohort participants. All team members are welcome to join the sessions, however, at least one member of every team is required to attend the live Zoom session each week.
The online course content is divided into three components: vision & analysis, strategy & delivery, and leadership. Topics covered throughout the seven weeks will include neighbourhood design, mobility for families, social and environmental challenges, transforming behaviour through design, and principles of creating playful public spaces.
Understand how cities that are designed to support the wellbeing of babies, toddlers and caregivers are better for all.
Evaluate what matters for young children and caregivers and gain the tools and skills to build your own baseline to measure long-term impact.
Develop effective strategies that invest in improving social and spatial infrastructures.
Understand how to implement policy and deliver services that meet the needs of young children and caregivers and make cities more sustainable and equitable.
Learn how to design accessible neighbourhoods, public spaces, and transport systems, and develop financially viable projects that provide public value for money for the benefit of all citizens.
Learn key skills for public purpose leadership and effective leadership styles for different situations.
Build an innovation culture across departments and help support an innovation ecosystem between public, private and third sector organisations.
Understand how a systems lens that prioritises babies, toddlers, and caregivers, can bring together diverse stakeholders and effect change.
Participants will learn how to implement policies, gain effective strategies, and hone leadership skills to create urban environments that support healthy child development.
This session will introduce the key themes of the Urban95 Academy and the programme journey.
This session looks at how social and environmental challenges are affecting young children and their caregivers.
This session will help you analyse a city from the perspective of young children and their caregivers.
This session will help you understand caregiver wellbeing and what cities can do to support their needs and aspirations.
This session introduces the foundations of sustainable urban design from a child-centric design perspective.
This course provides an overview of key strategies to reduce inequalities in cities.
This session will help you to better plan and design, neighbourhoods and public places that are responsive to the needs of young children and caregivers.
This session looks at the importance of stable and accessible housing for healthy childhood development and caregiver wellbeing.
This session provides an overview of balancing urban place and movement functions and looks at how babies, toddlers, and caregivers move through and access urban spaces and transport systems.
This session looks at how participatory and behavioural design approaches can improve your programmes.
This session explores the foundations of urban governance necessary for advancing institutional change and developing enabling conditions for early childhood development in cities.
This session provides an overview of the project lifecycle from conception to viability, finance and delivery.
Understanding leadership values and styles.
This course looks at change leadership from the lenses of systems in the context of implementing a child-friendly agenda in cities.
This session looks at how leaders can nurture innovation in their cities.
Certificate issued by LSE.
At the end of the seven-week online course, participants are asked to submit an action strategy assignment addressing a local challenge in their city. Based on this assignment and overall participation and engagement in the course, 10 cities are invited to come to an all-expenses paid Residence Week at the LSE in London.
The Residence Week consists of intensive workshops, networking opportunities, London site visits, public lectures, and other events. Upon completing the programme, cities may also be eligible to receive additional technical support from Urban95 Academy partners and are invited to join the Urban95 global network of city practitioners and officials.
