EDUCATE Portal: a Knowledge Base of best practice in sustainable environmental design, available at: https://www.educate-sustainability.eu/kb/ (accessed 16 November 2012)

The EDUCATE Portal is an essential tool for the achievement of the Action’s pedagogical specific objectives, as well as its projected long-term impacts. The Portal has been designed to primarily incorporate an internal interactive intelligent e-learning system, with the aim of facilitating the integration of principles of sustainability in architectural education and practice. The structure of the EDUCATE Portal has evolved continuously over the first phase of the project, as a result of consultation with project partners. The Portal primarily hosts the publicly-accessible Action’s web page (www.educate-sustainability.eu), where reports, news, data, and information on activities, developments and results of the Action are disseminated to target groups (students, academics, professionals and the public). Further to the webpage, the EDUCATE Portal consists of six main components: Knowledge Base; Student Space; Expert Space; Instructor Space; Professional Space; Public Space. Given the novelty of the EDUCATE Portal, and the difficult predictability of how the system will be used in practice, its structure incorporates significant flexibility, allowing the system configuration to be adapted following deployment of the initial prototype.