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Around 60% of the urban population in Romania lives in blocks of flats made of prefabricated panels, built mostly between 1960 and 1990. Interventions on these buildings are a highly debated topic in order to achieve the 20-20-20 EU targets, but less discussed is the part that makes these interventions truly sustainable on long run. The study presented in this paper constitutes the part related to social sustainability conducted for a project that defines some alternative solutions for Timisoara. These proposals a...

The present research paper presents the benefits of team working in higher education using as a case study a participatory student research-led project - Up-Tim project Retrofix for Solar Decathlon 2014 - from this perspective. Solar Decathlon (SD) is an international competition that challenges university students to design, build and operate solar houses. But it is more than that: it is about generating and sharing knowledge, linking university research with industry, the real market and society, raising social ...