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Decolonising African-European academic partnerships
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Teaching complexity Through Real-World and Collaborative pedagogies
Done
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Transregional sustainable development
Done
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Migrant storytelling on home and belonging as transformative tools
Done
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WE4LEAD: a cross-continental endeavor towards gender equality
Done
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Polycrisis and forced displacement across Africa and Europe
Done
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Experimentation and the making of experiential knowledge
Done
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Climate change and other challenges - building convergence through collaboration
Done
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Rethinking Aging: Scientific Evidence, Public Perception, and Cultural Practices
Done
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Transcultural memories and narratives
Done
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Added-value collaboration between academic research&local stakeholders
Done
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Challenging the complexities of informal elderly care. Towards African-European collaborative aging research and education
Done
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Participatory action research in vulnerable contexts: a trans-continental perspective
Done
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Building on PolyCIVIS Insights: Enhancing African-European Cooperation in Research and Evidence-Based Policy
Done
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The African Cancer Immunology and Infection Initiative
Done
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Exploring opportunities and challenges of AI in research and teaching in Europe -Africa Alliance
Done
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Equity and Inclusion in African–European Knowledge Partnerships
Done
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Decolonising university museum collections
Done
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Cultural heritage and housing: protection, safeguarding, and belonging
Done
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CIVIS Research Council face-to-face meeting
Done
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Preparedness and adaptability in Global Health
Done
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Language beyond learning
Done
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Opening session
Done
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Joint African-European studies and viewpoints on epidemiology
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Closing session
Done
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African-European teaching collaboration and instructional design
Done
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Universities in Transformation
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Toward equitable and transformative science partnerships: Which role for CIVIS?
Done
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Heritage for the future: promoting best practices for preservation and promotion
Done
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Session chair: Prof. Emilia Noormahomed, Edoardo Mondlane University, Maputo (Mozambic)
Collective contribution
Dr. Brenda Bogaert, Dr. Kristina Würth, PhD student Kevin Dzi - University of Lausanne and Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne (Switzerland)
Dr. John Barugahare - Makerere University, Kampala (Uganda) online
Dr. Beatrice Akala - University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (South Africa) online
Dr B. Ajayi Oluwakemi -
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (South Africa)
Our panel corresponds to Hub 2 – Society, Culture, Heritage and explores
how medical education systems can foster more inclusive, multilingual,
and societies. With its focus on healthcare, it also furthers Hub 3.
In the context of increasing social and cultural diversification in
global societies, one of the most important issues that educators need
to address today is racism in health care. However, this subject is
usually ignored or under-discussed.
Combating this injustice requires a
variety of perspectives - especially from different contexts and
countries.
As a first step, a moderated discussion was organized in
September 2025 in Hannover, Germany, with 28 participants from around
Europe on racism in biomedicine.
Strategies identified for medical
education included having dedicated peer support, building awareness of
racism in medical history, incorporating lived experience, and targeted
faculty recruitment to ensure greater diversity. This second panel
discussion, planned in Casablanca with CIVIS partners at the University
of the Witwatersrand and Makerere University, will widen the topic to
the global audience of CIVIS partners from Africa. It will provide an
opportunity to enlarge this debate, to better understand critical
pedagogies that may be mobilised both in specific contexts/countries and
worldwide (such as Ubuntu philosophies which emphasize our shared
humanity and interdependence) to overcome racism in healthcare and
society as a large.
The structure of panel discussion will be as
follows:
• Presentation of results from European workshop - University of Lausanne
• Insights on anti-racist initiatives from the University of the Witwatersrand and Makerere University
• Audience discussion
Questions for the audience
• What is our role as educators?
• What are anti-racist initiatives in your universities?
• How can we improve education to work toward more just, equitable societies?
• How can we overcome barriers to anti-racism work?