EU/US Atlantis Programme: Global Cities/Citizenship: Transformation of Urban Areas in Europe and the USA

The aim of the Project – involving four partners: University of Bologna (EU lead), University of Nottingham; University of Denver (US lead), Portland State University – is to develop a shared, integrated curriculum for addressing the social (cultural) and natural (ecological) problems and challenges facing European and American cities in the new “Metro millennium”. The objective was to develop a shared curriculum among partner institutions for studying urban transformations that is broader and stronger than any one institution could offer on its own. The project involved the exchange of students and faculty between US and European partners. The exchanges were intended to promote multiple disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives on urban problems, and cross-fertilization of European and American approaches to understanding the city and the meaning of engaged citizenship.