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[[File:TELOS Logo.jpg|thumb|right|300px|TELOS Project Logo]]
[[File:LoLa Logo.jpg|thumb|right|300px|LOLA Project Logo]]
[[File:Partner Map TELOS.jpg|thumb|right|300px|TELOS transnational partnership]]
[[File:Partner Map LOLA.jpg|thumb|right|300px|LoLa transnational ERASMUS partnership]]
[[File:Eu funded logo.jpg|thumb|right|300px|The TELOS Project has been (partially) funded by the ERASMUS+ grant program of the European Union under grant no. 2021-1-DE01-KA220-HED-000031123. Neither the European Commission nor the project's national funding agency are responsible for the content or liable for any losses or damage resulting of the use of these resources.]]
[[File:Photo_11.07_training_staff.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Partners at the first TELOS staff training form the core of the LOLA Team]]


'''TELOS''' stands for: '''T'''owards a '''E'''uropean '''L'''andscape Ec'''o'''nomy for a '''S'''ustainable Urban Development
'''LOLA''' stands for: '''Lo'''cal '''La'''ndscape Systems Labs: Empowering Systems Thinking for Transformative Change and Territorial Regeneration
Project duration: November 2021 - November 2024


== Why TELOS? ==
Project duration: November 2025 - October 2028
Our project brings five European metropolitan areas together to address this spatial and educationalchallenge in a new way: we link Rome, Stuttgart, Brussels, Gdansk and Antalya.


TELOS contributes to a large-scale transnational educational transformation and empowers a new generation of visionary professionals, decision-makers and urbanites, to address sustainability challenges through problem-solving approaches that integrate systems thinking, anticipatory strategic competences, real life scenarios and insights, and interpersonal skills.
== What do we want to achieve with LOLA? ==
LoLa will enhance the competence for systems thinking in the context of community-led landscape development in urban, peri-urban and rural contexts. Systems thinking provides a valuable framework for understanding and addressing the
complex, interconnected challenges of sustainable development, ultimately building the capacity of individuals, organizations, and societies to create a more sustainable future.  


TELOS aims to build ‘knowledge and action bridges’ between the seemingly competing systems of ecology and economy, as they appear in our everyday urban environment. The target groups of the TELOS project are primarily university staff and students from the following subject domains: urban planning, landscape planning, architecture and landscape architecture, agriculture, regional development, economics, business administration and real estate.  
Higher education institutions must play a key role in activating this capacity.


Related stakeholder groups are equitable finance players, real estate developers and related industries, NGOs, municipalities, and the wider public, aiming to break down barriers and foster collaboration while encouraging knowledge exchange at all levels.
== LOLA Project Activities ==
We develop 7 Local Landscape Systems Labs at the interface of the universities and their community context: Nürtingen and Beirut focus on the local food system, Valencia on water, Brussels on the mobility system, Gdansk on the coastal
landscape system, Antalya on the rural landscape system and Rome on the energy and housing system. All labs are connected through a cross-cutting participatory action research process aiming at proving the effectiveness of our learning
approach to systems thinking.


== TELOS Project Objectives ==
== Results ==
#To develop the first '''Landscape Economy curriculum''' by which learners can deeply immerse in the theories, dialectics and methodologies associated with these emerging concepts
All LoLa Labs will be sustained beyond this project. We will publish a handbook for educators on systems thinking education to be applied mostly in spatial planning and design, social innovation, rural and urban development. Another result is the actual systems thinking competence development among all participants involved in our participatory action research cycle.
#To '''build capacity''' among university teachers, enabling them to successfully implement interdisciplinary and transformative learning settings
#To build up key competences for sustainable urban development
#To create and share knowledge, by '''documenting TELOS methodology''' as an open educational resource
#To '''disseminate''' the TELOS curriculum and methodology as widely as possible.


== Activities ==
LoLa contributes to local democracy through new formats of participation and empowerment for the Grand Transformation
Our project includes the following main activities:
#Development of the '''TELOS curriculum''' (design, testing, evaluation,exploitation and dissemination)
#Conceptualisation and implementation of two '''TELOS staff training events.'''
#'''Piloting''' the TELOS curriculum by means of '''two blended learning events'''.


Our blended learning events consist of the following elements:  
== Expected Impact ==
*the TELOS online course
TELOS is expected to have its main impact in the following two dimensions:  
*the TELOS local labs
*and the TELOS charette.


We will further implement '''two Multiplier Events''' during which we involve a wider stakeholder network and diversified audiences into the development and dissemination of the TELOS intellectual outputs.
Short term impact on Higher Education: more effective education for sustainable development through staff capacity building and curriculum innovation. The following main competence fields will be addressed: (1) systems thinking, (2) anticipatory competence, (3) normative competence, (4) strategic competence, and (5) interpersonal competence.
 
Long term impact on the local communities and their territorial contexts: mainstreaming TELOS competences will transform planning and development practices. This will lead to better spatial design and planning solutions characterised by sustainable economic models that support social and environmental goals. Keywords of this landscape-based approach are: circular economy, ecosystem services, green
infrastructure, sustainable housing, digitalisation and smart city and community applications, all combined with
democratic leadership skills, creative financing models, and innovative governance.
 
== LOLA Partnership & Funding Agency ==
[[File:LOLA All Logos.jpg|1200px]]
 
[[File:EN-Funded by the EU-POS.png|300px]]
 
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.

Latest revision as of 14:53, 8 June 2026

LOLA Project Logo
LoLa transnational ERASMUS partnership
Partners at the first TELOS staff training form the core of the LOLA Team

LOLA stands for: Local Landscape Systems Labs: Empowering Systems Thinking for Transformative Change and Territorial Regeneration

Project duration: November 2025 - October 2028

What do we want to achieve with LOLA?

LoLa will enhance the competence for systems thinking in the context of community-led landscape development in urban, peri-urban and rural contexts. Systems thinking provides a valuable framework for understanding and addressing the complex, interconnected challenges of sustainable development, ultimately building the capacity of individuals, organizations, and societies to create a more sustainable future.

Higher education institutions must play a key role in activating this capacity.

LOLA Project Activities

We develop 7 Local Landscape Systems Labs at the interface of the universities and their community context: Nürtingen and Beirut focus on the local food system, Valencia on water, Brussels on the mobility system, Gdansk on the coastal landscape system, Antalya on the rural landscape system and Rome on the energy and housing system. All labs are connected through a cross-cutting participatory action research process aiming at proving the effectiveness of our learning approach to systems thinking.

Results

All LoLa Labs will be sustained beyond this project. We will publish a handbook for educators on systems thinking education to be applied mostly in spatial planning and design, social innovation, rural and urban development. Another result is the actual systems thinking competence development among all participants involved in our participatory action research cycle.

LoLa contributes to local democracy through new formats of participation and empowerment for the Grand Transformation

Expected Impact

TELOS is expected to have its main impact in the following two dimensions:

Short term impact on Higher Education: more effective education for sustainable development through staff capacity building and curriculum innovation. The following main competence fields will be addressed: (1) systems thinking, (2) anticipatory competence, (3) normative competence, (4) strategic competence, and (5) interpersonal competence.

Long term impact on the local communities and their territorial contexts: mainstreaming TELOS competences will transform planning and development practices. This will lead to better spatial design and planning solutions characterised by sustainable economic models that support social and environmental goals. Keywords of this landscape-based approach are: circular economy, ecosystem services, green infrastructure, sustainable housing, digitalisation and smart city and community applications, all combined with democratic leadership skills, creative financing models, and innovative governance.

LOLA Partnership & Funding Agency

Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.

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