The course is based on a practical implementation aimed at challenge-based porblem solving and learning.

The teaching will be based around representative cases of urban innovation processes. The students will receive the theoretical contents contextualized in these cases. Renowned experts will provide open discussions during class hours with the aim of generating a modern and real-world critical vision.

Students will participate actively through field trips, in real open innovation and citizen science projects in urban environments, through the case studies. Students will participate in all parts of the project's life-cycle, and will have assigned specific roles, so that their teaching experience will be implemented in a living lab model approach.

From these actions, students will perform a sprint process based on agile methodologies to generate a delivarable for each case study, interacting with stakeholders under the supervision of the teaching staff. The student must support the case studies with individual and group work in order to obtain 2 deliverables that will be evaluated separately. From these deliverables, an evaluation of contents and impact of the project will be carried out, in such a way that students must demonstrate their ability to manage the innovation process, and measure its socio-economic and transformation impact.

This methodological vision allows working cooperatively in complex or uncertain environments and with limited resources, in a multidisciplinary context, assuming and respecting the role of the different members of the team.

The analysis of the case studies will allow developing creativity, initiative, and sensitivity towards social and environmental issues. The high practical content allows generating innovative and competitive proposals in their future professional activities, since all the processes are carried out within projects of real cities and rural surroundings. This allows to preventand solve problems, adapt to unforeseen situations, make decisions, and critically assess the work done demonstrating a spirit of improvement to develop innovation-led growth and positive social transformation hand in hand. The inclusion of social impacts of AI (including the responsible use of AI tools for professional-quality deliverables), as well as the role of women and gender perspective will be highly considered.

Leading figures in the field will be identified and invited to give talks in class, including a gender perspective in the debates.

The use of all technologies will be encouraged, including advanced artificial intelligence systems.

Annotation: within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.

There will be 2 deliverables for evaluation:

1. Deliverable of the state of the art (SoA).
2. Deliverable of the article on the innovation proposal (IP).
3. Final presentation (Pr).

The final grade will be the result of applying the following formula:

FINAL SCORE = SoA*0.30 + PI*0.50 + Pr*0.20

To pass, it is necessary that the evaluation of each of the parties exceeds the minimum required (5) and that the total evaluation exceeds 5 points. In case of not passing the subject, the numerical note of the student's file will be the lower value between 4.5 and the weighted average of the notes. There is no option for single evluation.

Positive contributions in the discussions will round up the decimals. To qualify for the Matrícula d'Honor (with honors) it is necessary to have a participative attitude in the class discussions. The maximum number of Matrículas d'Honor is restricted by the UAB regulation to a maximum of 5% of the students enrolled in the subject. They can only be granted to students who have obtained a final grade equal to or greater than 9.

In case of not passing in any of the deliveries, the student will have the opportunity to recover the partial mark by sending back the corrected document before the day determined by the teacher. Repeating students may validate the parts approved in previous years.

A student will be considered non-assessable if he or she does not complete SoA or PI.

The dates for continuous evaluation and submission of works will be published on the website Caronte (http://caronte.uab.es) and may be subject to changes for reasons of adaptation to possibleincidents. Caronte will always inform about thesechanges since it is understood that the Caronte website is the usual mechanism for exchanging informationbetween teacher and students.

For each evaluation activity, a place, date and time of revision in which the student can review the activity with the teacher will be indicated. In this context, claims may be made on the activity grade, which will be evaluated by the faculty responsible for the subject. If the student does not appear in this review, this activity will not be reviewed later.

Without prejudice to other disciplinary measures deemed appropriate, and in accordance with current academic regulations, any irregularities carried out by the student that could lead to a variation of the grade of an evaluation act will be scored with a zero. Thus, plagiarizing, copying or allowing a document to be copied or any other evaluation activity will involve failing with a zero and will not be able to be passed in the same academic year.