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Table 6 Chart showing how knowledge of the project-partnership can inform management strategies and produce desirable outcomes across sites

From: The project-partnership cycle: managing city-university partnerships for urban sustainability and resilience transformations

CUP Site

Observation

Adaptive Management Strategy

Outcome

Mexico City & UNAM

Government shift will disrupt partnership

Build relationships outside of current configuration

Partnership survived government upheaval

Luneburg & Leuphana

Uncertainty around city priorities and feelings towards CUP

Conduct reflective interviews with stakeholders

Gamified workshops for partnership development created

Portland & PSU

CUP is durable and attained outcomes enhanced trust and capacity

Formalize partnership with enhanced cross-institutional support and ambitious goals

Assembled new collaborative team of empowered leaders at city and university

Karlsruhe & KIT

University desires and nomenclature are not meeting city needs

Talk about the work in ways that resonate with municipal work-flow

City more receptive to interventions

Tempe & ASU

Partnership is not robust or resilient to change

Involve more participants on city and university side

City and university jointly planning future prolonged engagement