Томский политехнический университет

International Academic Summer School on Well-being «UniverCiTerra» - 2015

Tomsk Polytechnic University

July, 19 - August, 8 2015

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Modules

 

City Tourism: Smart & Sustainable

Objectives of the module:

  • To provide an understanding of the changes in city tourism caused by the application of such concepts as: “smart, sustainable and creative cities”.
  • To explore the research and practices of urban planning, ancient monuments reconstruction and cultural heritage preservation.
  • To develop skills in urban graphic design.

Themes covered:

  • City as a tourist destination: branding, event management, staff training.
  • ICT and cultural heritage: contemporary museums and digital heritage, 3D modeling, wooden architecture reconstruction.
  • Sustainable urban development: challenges and opportunities.
  • Economics of smart city: e-services for citizens and tourists, creative clusters.

Forms of study: lectures, seminars, master classes, group projects.

Contacts: Natalia A. Goncharova, natg@tpu.ru.

 

Sustainable communications

Objectives of the module:

  • To provide an understanding of the changes in communications, caused by the application of such concepts as: “smart, sustainable and successful communications”.
  • To explore the research and practices of communication planning, determine communication risks and be able to predict them.
  • To develop skills in successful communication of society.

Themes covered:

  • Sustainable scientific communication - success project for scientific career.
  • Leadership in the 21 Century: Communicating for Success.
  • How can visual communication promote social change?
  • Problem of mutually: communication and regulatory background of the historical formation of morality.

Forms of study: lectures, seminars, master classes, group projects.

Contacts: Elena N. Rogotneva, erogotneva@tpu.ru.

 

Lifelong wellbeing. Active aging. Sustainable development

Objectives of the module:

  • To consider a concept of continuous wellbeing and a phenomena of happiness in the modern conditions of human society's development.
  • To study the main criteria of wellbeing and to show interrelations between wellbeing and social activity of elderly people, development of the sphere of information and communication technologies.
  • To create economics of wellbeing models in different countries taking into account cultural, historical and behavioural aspects.

Themes covered:

  • A Cross-Sectional Study on Happiness among Older Adults
  • Structure of the economy as the basis of well-being.
  • The impact of crowdsourcing on older adults.
  • Designing a model of the economy of well-being.
  • A master class “Finding of the “correct” problem and adoption of the “correct” decision by means of techniques application: SCORE, 5WHY, TWELVE-THINKING-PARADIGMS”.
  • Interactive game «The Crazy Lab» (practice of the scientific researches organization).

Forms of study: lectures, seminars, master classes, group projects.

Contacts: Vladimir V. Guzyr, guzyr@tpu.ru.

Contacts:

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E-mail: uct2015tpu@gmail.com

Web-site: http://uct2015.tpu.ru

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