Team members of two Erasmus+ projects in Capacity Building in Higher Education met for mutual exchange on March 3rd, 2017 in Krems, Austria. Both “Building Inclusive Urban Communities” (BInUCom) and “Social Inclusion and Energy Management in Informal Settlements” (SES) aim at improving  higher education for architects and urban planners to enable them to deal with the complex challenges of sustainable social housing in the two partner countries India and Ethiopia.

Prof. Darshini Mahadevia of CEPT University in Ahmedabad, India, presented a holistic methodology for
slum free city planning which is applied at her Centre for Urban Equity.
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Yonas Alemayehu Soressa of the Ethiopian Institute for Architecture, Building  Construction and City Development (EiABC) in Addis Ababa gave an general overview on housing in present day Ethiopia.
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Dawit Benti of the Ethiopian Institute for Architecture, Building  Construction and City Development (EiABC) in Addis Ababa portrayed the country’s current state of Higher Education in Architecture and Planning.
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Dr. Tania Berger of Danube University Krems presented reflections on low vs. high rise buildings and their appropriateness for low income Groups.
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Rector Friedrich Faulhammer of Danube University Krems welcoming participants from both Projects to the "BInUCom meets SES" Event.

Participants from all partner institutions discussing issues of informal housing in "City meets City" setting.