Humanitarian Action: Climate Change and Displacements
HumAct is a 3-year project funded by the Erasmus + Program Capacity Building for Higher Education and is coordinated by ISCTE – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa., with partners: the National and Kapodistriana University of Athens, the University of Cape Verde and the University of Santiago, Cape Verde and the Pedagogical University, University of Pungué and University of Rovuma, Mozambique.
The main objective of the project is to increase the capacity of higher education institutions in the area of Humanitarian Action (HA) in relation to climate change and displacement in partner countries, specifically in Cape Verde and Mozambique, in collaboration with institutions in program countries, such as Greece and Portugal.
The specific objectives are:
• Increase the response of higher education with regard to content relevant to HA
• Promoting research by teachers and students regarding HA
• Develop teachers' pedagogical strategies
• Strengthen community involvement
Project Information
2021-01-15
2024-06-14
Project Partners
- IRU-Iscte - Leader
- CIES-Iscte
- BRU-Iscte
- Universidade Pedagógica de Maputo - (Mozambique)
- Pungué University - (Mozambique)
- Universidade de Rovuma - (Mozambique)
- UNI-CV - (Cape Verde)
- Universidade de Santiago - (Cape Verde)
- National and Kapodistrian University of Athens - (Greece)
Innovation in Humanitarian Response
InovHumRe is a project financed by the Erasmus+ Programme – KA203 – Strategic Partnerships for Higher Education, aiming to improve the quality and effectiveness of Higher Education Institutes, improving the education of Humanitarian Action students and professionals, through the implementation, in the second cycle of social science courses, of a curricular unit for the evaluation in humanitarian action.
This curricular unit will be based on innovative methodological approaches – participatory assessment in Humanitarian Action and will feature the development of new learning tools that incorporate the contributions of partner HEIs and NGOs directly involved in the humanitarian response, thus filling skill gaps.
The project InovHumRe, will last for 30 months (31/12/2020 – 29/06/2023), is coordinated by Iscte – University Institute of Lisbon and has as partners, the following entities:
– Instituto Marquês de Valle Flôr, Portugal
– Hacettepe University, Turkey
– Sened Dernegi, Turkey
– Sosyal Hizmet Uzmanları Derneği (SHUDER), Turkey
– National University of Distance Learning (UNED), Spain
– Fundacíon Magtel, Spain
– Fundação Getúlio Vargas, Brazil
– Icesi University, Colombia
Project Information
2020-12-31
2023-06-29
Project Partners
- IRU-Iscte - Leader
- CIES-Iscte
- Instituto Marquês de Valle Flôr - (Portugal)
- UNED - (Spain)
- Fundacíon Magtel - (Spain)
- Hacettepe University - (Turkey)
- Sened Dernegi - (Turkey)
- SHUDER - (Turkey)
- FGV - (Brazil)
- Icesi University, - (Colombia)