Capacity building Framework: Deliverable D3.2

This document provides the current status of task 3.2.3, the Capacity Building Framework (CBF). The aim of the NZC's CBF is to empower Portal users to reach climate neutrality in their city (region) through a process of continuous development and the application of their skills and knowledge via collaborative learning processes. As the NZC Portal already offers and will offer learning or capacity building (CB) opportunities (detailed in Section 3.3), the NZC CBF does not add new opportunities; Instead, this deliverable describes how, via the NZC CBF, users can make optimal use of the Portal’s components, pages, features and functions for (online and offline) skills or knowledge development or collaborative learning processes. The concept of a Learning Journey is introduced (Section 4) as a part of the CBF and this journey aims to bring these various components of the Portal together (Section 4.4) and to support a continuous collaborative learning process. Before describing the Learning Journey concept and its key design principles (Section 4.3), some of the guiding questions that this Deliverable will first answer are: What is CB in NZC (Section 3.1)? What are the needs and demands of NZC cities (Section 3.2) that CB can support? How is learning and capacity building already taking place on the NZC Portal (Section 3.3)? What are the different ways in which individuals, groups and organizations learn (Section 4.2)?
This document will be publicly published and is intended to serve as the theoretical and informative basis for the creation of Portal pages, and an understanding of how the Portal services and pages can be navigated and used.