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Overcoming racism in healthcare: a European and African perspective on how to improve medical training
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Migrant storytelling on home and belonging as transformative tools
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Transregional sustainable development
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WE4LEAD: a cross-continental endeavor towards gender equality
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Decolonising African-European academic partnerships
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Participatory action research in vulnerable contexts: a trans-continental perspective
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Rethinking Aging: Scientific Evidence, Public Perception, and Cultural Practices
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The African Cancer Immunology and Infection Initiative
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Building on PolyCIVIS Insights: Enhancing African-European Cooperation in Research and Evidence-Based Policy
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Climate change and other challenges - building convergence through collaboration
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Exploring opportunities and challenges of AI in research and teaching in Europe -Africa Alliance
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Challenging the complexities of informal elderly care. Towards African-European collaborative aging research and education
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Polycrisis and forced displacement across Africa and Europe
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Added-value collaboration between academic research&local stakeholders
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Experimentation and the making of experiential knowledge
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Transcultural memories and narratives
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Equity and Inclusion in African–European Knowledge Partnerships
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Decolonising university museum collections
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Closing session
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Toward equitable and transformative science partnerships: Which role for CIVIS?
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Universities in Transformation
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Heritage for the future: promoting best practices for preservation and promotion
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Preparedness and adaptability in Global Health
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Opening session
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Joint African-European studies and viewpoints on epidemiology
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Cultural heritage and housing: protection, safeguarding, and belonging
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Language beyond learning
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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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Session chair : Prof. Maria Impedovo, Aix-Marseille University, Marseille (France)
Individual contributions
Dr. Anthony Tibaingana - Makere University, Kampala (Uganda)
E Integrating digital technologies in the teaching polycrisis across CIVIS Universities. The intended contribution will be in how we can leverage on the available digital technologies to ease the teaching that can assuage polycrisis effects
Prof. Gudrun Zagel - Paris Lodron University of Salzburg, Salzburg (Austria)
EATIA Simulation games to teach polycrises
Dr. Fanny SBARAGLIA & Prof. Denis TERWAGNE, Université libre de Bruxelles, Brussels (Belgium)
Teaching complexity through Bruno Latour’s compass: comparing applications
in STEM and public policy education
Prof. Fadma Ait Mous & Prof. Ben Mouro Youness - Université Hassan II de Casablanca, Casablanca (Morocco)
Teaching the complexity of migration in Morocco: Collaborative and experiential pedagogies in social challenges
Migration in Morocco embodies intricate social, cultural, and economic dynamics, from trans-Saharan routes to Mediterranean crossings and diasporic returns. This presentation explores innovative pedagogies for teaching these complexities in higher education, focusing on collaborative and experiential methods. Drawing on socio-anthropological frameworks, we examine classroom practices where students co-design projects with migrants, engage in fieldwork simulations, and participate in cross-cultural dialogues. These approaches foster critical thinking, empathy, and practical skills to address real-world social challenges like integration, identity, and policy gaps. By bridging theory and lived experience, such pedagogies empower future scholars and policymakers to navigate migration's multifaceted realities.
Collective proposal
Dr. Fanny SBARAGLIA & Prof. Denis TERWAGNE, Université libre de Bruxelles, Brussels (Belgium)
Prof. Fadma Ait Mous & Prof. Ben Mouro Youness - Université Hassan II de Casablanca, Casablanca (Morocco)
Prof. Gudrun Zagel - Paris Lodron University of Salzburg, Salzburg (Austria)
Dr. Anthony Tibaingana - Makere University, Kampala (Uganda)
This panel invites academics and practitioners across the CIVIS alliance to explore how higher education can better address the challenge of teaching complexity in a world marked by intertwined social, environmental, and political crises. It focuses on real-world, collaborative cases that allow students to engage directly with authentic societal, professional, and research problems through experiential, challenge-based, and partnership-oriented learning. By connecting universities, public institutions, NGOs, and private organizations, such approaches create spaces for experimentation and mutual learning while confronting key barriers such as institutional rigidity, coordination with external stakeholders, and the evaluation of complex learning outcomes. Drawing on experiences from CIVIS universities in Europe and Africa, the panel highlights how different cultural and institutional contexts shape ways of understanding and teaching complexity. It invites reflections on how educators can design learning environments that embrace uncertainty, foster interdisciplinary dialogue, and cultivate critical and ethical engagement with the challenges of the “polycrisis.” Ultimately, the session seeks to envision the university as a laboratory for collective experimentation, where the co-production of knowledge equips learners to navigate and transform complex realities.
Questions for the audience
- How can universities design learning environments that genuinely embrace uncertainty and complexity while remaining feasible within existing academic structures?
- In what ways can collaboration between universities, public institutions, NGOs, and private actors foster mutual learning and shared responsibility in addressing societal challenges?
- What pedagogical and ethical frameworks are needed to help students critically and creatively engage with the “polycrisis” and act as transformative agents in complex systems?