LEARNING CHALLENGES AND BENEFITS DURING THE INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON URBAN REGENERATION

We analysed university students' opinions about their gained educational and personal benefits and challenges faced during an international and interdisciplinary workshop on urban regeneration, organised with the collaboration of Babe.-Bolyai University, in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, in the period 31st May-2nd June 2018. The M.Sc. and Ph.D. students taking part at this workshop were from Romania, Estonia and Italy. Besides these students, participants were researchers, practitioners, activists, public authorities' representatives, senior planning officials, community leaders, academics, private stakeholders interested in city development, policy makers, investors/entrepreneurs, urban planners, etc. from Romania, Italy, Russia, Estonia, and Poland. Their fields of study were also different: Geography, Sociology, Architecture, and Urban Planning. To find out the learning challenges and benefits these students experienced during the workshop, we collected data by administering a questionnaire. We questioned them about their motivation to participate at the workshop, their interest level in urban regeneration, the sources of their knowledge about urban regeneration processes, their satisfaction degree about participating at the workshop, the challenges they had to cope with during the proceedings, the participation benefits for their professional and personal development, etc. We assessed their learning experience and suggested ways to improve it. (c) 2019 Published by Future Academy www.FutureAcademy.org.UK