Climate Virtual ExChange: Enhancing climate awareness in Europe and the Southern Mediterranean Area
Coordinator
Members
University of PadovaAn-Najah National UniversityLebanese International UniversitySharing Perspectives FoundationAssociation Soliya
Budget
€ 499.985,00
Programme
ERASMUS-EDU-2022-VIRT-EXCH
Project Duration
Start Date: July 1, 2023
End Date: June 30, 2026
Project No.
101111937
Contact Person at Setif 2 University
Pr.Naouel Abdellatif Mami :
Official Website
The project Climate Virtual ExChange: Enhancing climate awareness in Europe and the Southern Mediterranean Area (CliVEx) aims to enhance intercultural dialogue between students from Europe and the Southern Mediterranean area on the topic of climate change.
The 3-year project involves 16 Higher Education Institutions from 15 different countries located in Europe and in the South Mediterranean area: Algeria, Egypt, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Netherlands, Palestine, Portugal, Spain, Syria, and Tunisia.
We will involve 1,500 participants in 5 Virtual Exchange “Climate Justice” iterations.
In addition, we will train 1,000 young online dialogue facilitators (students and/or young academic staff) to facilitate the dialogues among Virtual Exchange participants. This leads to a community of skilled, certified, and experienced facilitators that can be deployed in other Virtual Exchange initiatives after this project.
The specific objectives of CliVEx are:
- To design, develop and implement a Virtual Exchange entitled ‘Climate Justice’, organised in 5 iterations over 36 months, involving at least 1,500 students from the countries of our full and associated partner HEIs in the Virtual Exchange.
- To have at least 150 climate project ideas developed out of the Virtual Exchanges.
- To train at least 1,000 online dialogue facilitators drawn from the participating Higher Education Institutions, VE alumni, and other young people interested in developing online facilitation skills and coming from the countries of our beneficiaries and associated partners.
- To run a Life Cycle Assessment of the costs of the Virtual Exchange for the environment.
Institut National de Recherche et d'Analyse Physico-Chimique, Tunisia
Université de Bordeaux, France
National University College of Technology, Jordan
University of Limerick, Ireland
Julius-Maximilians-Universitat Wurzburg, Germany
Al-Sham University, Syria
Julius-Maximilians-Universitat Wurzburg, Germany
Universitat de Girona, Spain
Bethlehem University, Palestine
Universite Setif 2, AlgeriaAlexandria University, Egypt
The Islamic University Gaza, Palestine
ONLINE FACILITATION TRAINING
The training is designed both for professionals and those new to dialogue facilitation, gaining and sharpening key skills to facilitate and promote constructive, respectful, and authentic engagement in online and offline contexts.
It enables participants to become effective online facilitators who elicit self-group awareness, understanding, and effective cross-cultural communication by being multipartial and neutral process leaders that incubate safe and effective learning environments. Facilitators are trained to apply a diverse set of engagement tools to foster awareness and learning and address various group dynamics. Two are the training options offered:
The “Introduction to online dialogue facilitation” course instils participants with strong foundational skills to facilitate successfully online and in-person, including functions of dialogue and virtual exchange and key principles of facilitation.
The “Advanced training” is designed to deepen understanding of dialogue facilitation and provide experience in promoting constructive engagement in the online context. The training focuses on best online and in-person facilitation and communication practices, including managing various challenging group dynamics, promoting engagement, working with strong emotions and navigating group power dynamics.
Registration link for the “Advanced training” will be available soon!
