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Transcultural memories and narratives
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Added-value collaboration between academic research&local stakeholders
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Participatory action research in vulnerable contexts: a trans-continental perspective
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The African Cancer Immunology and Infection Initiative
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Challenging the complexities of informal elderly care. Towards African-European collaborative aging research and education
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Climate change and other challenges - building convergence through collaboration
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Decolonising African-European academic partnerships
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Building on PolyCIVIS Insights: Enhancing African-European Cooperation in Research and Evidence-Based Policy
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Teaching complexity Through Real-World and Collaborative pedagogies
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Exploring opportunities and challenges of AI in research and teaching in Europe -Africa Alliance
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Migrant storytelling on home and belonging as transformative tools
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Experimentation and the making of experiential knowledge
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Overcoming racism in healthcare: a European and African perspective on how to improve medical training
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WE4LEAD: a cross-continental endeavor towards gender equality
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Rethinking Aging: Scientific Evidence, Public Perception, and Cultural Practices
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Transregional sustainable development
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Language beyond learning
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Joint African-European studies and viewpoints on epidemiology
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Opening session
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Heritage for the future: promoting best practices for preservation and promotion
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Cultural heritage and housing: protection, safeguarding, and belonging
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Decolonising university museum collections
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Preparedness and adaptability in Global Health
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Universities in Transformation
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African-European teaching collaboration and instructional design
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CIVIS Research Council face-to-face meeting
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Toward equitable and transformative science partnerships: Which role for CIVIS?
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Equity and Inclusion in African–European Knowledge Partnerships
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Closing session
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Session chair: Dr. Youness Benmouro, Université Hassan II de Casablanca, Casablanca (Morocco)
Collective contribution
Dr. Astrid Favella, Sapienza University of Rome, Roma (Italy)
Prof. Fiorenza Deriu, Sapienza University of Rome, Roma (Italy)
Prof. Emiliane Rubat du Mérac , Sapienza University of Rome, Roma (Italy)
Dr. Ruth Aura, Egerton University, Njoro (Kenya)
Dr. John Oti Amoah, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast (Ghana)
Global challenges such as forced displacement and violence against women
represent urgent matters calling for academia and policy practitioners’
attention. Seizing the opportunity of this forum to table educational
actions addressing such polycrisis, education is seen as an avenue to
empower individuals and include them in renewed societal contexts.
Specifically, cross-border learner mobility engages with discussions
upon mechanisms to foster social and economic inclusion avenues for
forcibly displaced persons: recognition of foreign degrees and
qualifications, the valorization of non-formal and informal knowledge,
and the proactive action by European Universities Alliances, as CIVIS
itself, as examples of trans-national organisations, increasingly
gaining a voice as stakeholders in the policy-making mechanisms in this
sector.
Hence, the conceptual tool to analyse such global challenges and highlight joint solutions is the polycrisis lens.
This panel, within Hub 2 contributions considers this polycrisis from several points of view, deeply engaging with the Europe-Africa relationship: the core idea for fostering multicultural societies here proposed, is the valorisation of each and every learner experience and skills gained in the perspective of a multi-age, multi-cultural society.
Contributions aim to nurture the given prompt: “In the context of migration and forced displacement, how can educational systems and institutions foster inclusive, multilingual and multicultural societies?”.
Ongoing and concluded research around dynamics characterizing violence against women in refugee camps, educational projects to address and overcome them, skill-certification/qualification recognition between Europe and Africa, risks of violence reification within institutions themselves, and the use of polysolutions lenses as a valuable theoretical tool to frame the theme, will be shared.
Ultimately, the goal of the panel is to serve as a platform to collect experiences, discuss practices and build policy recommendations based on ongoing research, strongly bringing together the legal, sociological and educational oriented perspective.
Questions for the audience
- In a legal perspective, what are the challenges faced by women in refugee camps in Africa? How to overcome them?
- In the context of forced displacement, what are examples of educational projects successfully implemented in refugee camps in Africa to overcome them?
- How can we use the lenses of polycrisis and polysolutions to address such challenges?
- How can polysolutions be introduced for women empowerment, through recognition of prior formal/informal learning, once they migrate to a new country or while they are hosted in refugee camps?
- Aiming at multiculturalism and multilinguism, what are the inner violence risks/obstacles in-built in educational institutions themselves and how to overcome them?