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  • Promote Women Empowerment Through Digital Skills

    Promote Women Empowerment Through Digital Skills

    Proposal:  Creative Opportunities for Digital High-Quality Education through Research

    Implementation:  2025 to 2028

    Call:  ERASMUS-EDU-2024-POL-EXP – European policy experimentation

    Type of Action: ERASMUS-LS – ERASMUS Lump Sum Grants

    Proposed Budget: 799 816,79€

    Keywords: Boosting gender balance in ICT

    Objective: The project aims to promote female empowerment through digital skills development and the challenging of gender stereotypes, fostering a more inclusive and diverse ICT learning environment. The project promotes the empowerment of females with digital skills and challenges gender stereotypes, thereby creating a more inclusive and diverse ICT learning and teaching ethic for the digital age. A broad but particular research will be conducted, characterized by each territory’s essentials, this research study aims to reshape learning paradigms by emphasizing the need for inclusive digital education, identifying the underrepresentation of girls in ICT studies and professions across Europe and Turkey, and implementing comprehensive policy interventions. 

    Additionally, it seeks to design a teaching framework and policy intervention that foster gender balance in pursuing ICT fields. One of the main aspects is to validate and implement a robust pedagogical model on the topic that can be applied among young people in schools and outside of schools, and that can be widely integrated into standard curricula as well as into non-formal groups, across Europe and Turkey.

    Youth and academic personnel play fundamental roles in making educational changes and having a long-term impact on each participant’s individual life. It is necessary to promote female participation in digital education and transformation for their lifelong decision-making phases regarding the future. The project involves primary and secondary education, including students, headteachers, teachers, parents, educators, and academic personnel, endeavoring to achieve a great positive impact on digital confidence in youth and particularly in females. The project aims to empower skills and self-efficacy in digital, raise awareness, and develop knowledge about the gender gap in the ICT field, promote the usage of digital for education and professional purposes by creating and implementing digital policies and strategies.

    Partners:

    • Help Code Italia Italy Coordinator
    • Young Educators – European Network
    • Kodluyoruz Dernegi
    • Asociacion Building Bridges
    • Cankaya Universitesi Vakfi
    • Fundación Finca Experimental Universidad De Almería – ANECOOP
    • Istanbul Steam Bilim Teknoloji Egitim Kultur Sanat Dernegi
    • Università Degli Studi Di Genova
    • Universidade De Coimbra
  • BRIDGE

    BRIDGE

    Proposal: BRIDGE: Building Resilience through Intercultural Dialogue and Global Exchange

    Implementation: 2025 to 2027 

    Call:  ERASMUS-EDU-2025-VIRT-EXCH – Erasmus+ Virtual Exchanges

    Type of Action: ERASMUS-LS – ERASMUS Lump Sum Grants

    Proposed Budget: 308 581,00€

    Keywords: Resilience, Intercultural Dialogue, Storytelling, Global Exchange

    Objective: The BRIDGE project (Building Resilience through Intercultural Dialogue and Global Exchange) empowers youth across Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa to become proactive digital citizens and intercultural leaders. Rooted in values of critical thinking, democratic engagement, and global solidarity, BRIDGE envisions a more inclusive and resilient world shaped by young people. It employs a dynamic blend of digital storytelling, problem-based learning, and virtual exchange to build participants’ global competencies, digital literacy, and cross-cultural understanding.

    In collaboration with partners from Portugal, Belgium, Angola, Mozambique, and Cape Verde, BRIDGE merges European and African educational expertise. The project directly involves 1,625 young people aged 18–30—especially those facing social, economic, educational, or geographic disadvantages—in a transformative learning journey. Core activities include three structured capacity-building courses: Critical and Creative Thinking for Global Citizenship, Digital Storytelling and Intercultural Narratives, and Podcast Production for Civic Engagement.

    Complementary bootcamps address complex global issues such as colonialism, war, and globalisation, while plenary debates and focus groups nurture democratic dialogue and iterative improvement. Public dissemination events ensure community-level impact and visibility at national and EU levels.

    BRIDGE embeds sustainability through an alumni mentoring network, open-access educational resources, and strategic policy engagement with local and international stakeholders. It aligns with key EU frameworks including the EU Youth Strategy (2019–2027), Digital Education Action Plan (2021–2027), and the European Education Area 2025 objectives.

    BRIDGE contributes to systemic change in youth education. The project ultimately aims to cultivate a confident, engaged generation of young leaders who champion democracy, intercultural dialogue, and social cohesion.

    Partners:

    • Young Educators – European Network
    • Eekhout Academy
    • Instituto Superior De Gestão, Administração E Educação
    • Instituto Superior Politécnico Humanidades E Tecnologias-Ekuikui Ii
    • Universidade De Cabo Verde
  • Drought and Aridity Influence Internal Migration Worldwide

    Drought and Aridity Influence Internal Migration Worldwide

    While the effects of climate change on migration have attracted wide attention, comparative evidence on their role in internal migration remains scarce.

    Using census-based data from 72 countries (1960–2016) and 107,840 migration flows between subnational regions, this study shows that increased drought and aridity significantly influence internal migration, particularly in hyper-arid and arid regions of Southern Europe, South Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and South America.

    It is evident that migration patterns are shaped by the wealth, agricultural dependence, and level of urbanization of both origin and destination areas, with stronger responses in rural and agricultural regions.

    And although climatic effects on migration are generally stronger in richer countries, poorer regions tend to experience higher out-migration toward wealthier areas within the same country.

    Furthermore, age and education groups respond differently to climatic stress, revealing distinct mobility patterns across population subgroups and geographic contexts.

    Learn more about this study here: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-024-02165-1

    Reference

    Hoffmann, R., Abel, G., Malpede, M. et al. Drought and aridity influence internal migration worldwide. Nat. Clim. Chang. 14, 1245–1253 (2024)

  • Effects of Climate Change on Migration in Latin America and Caribbean: A Scoping Review

    Effects of Climate Change on Migration in Latin America and Caribbean: A Scoping Review

    Climate change-induced natural disasters such as hurricanes, landslides, forest fires, and changes in precipitation directly affect rural sectors that depend on field production and other dimensions of everyday life.

    This scoping review examines the health effects of climate change on environmental migrants in Latin America and the Caribbean, a region where evidence on this topic remains limited.

    The review analyzes 31 studies identified from PubMed, Web of Science, and Google Scholar in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.

    Findings show that climate change affects migrants across three main dimensions: health and healthcare, psychosocial well-being, and infrastructure. Health impacts include limited access to care, underdiagnosis, increased disease vulnerability, and mental health conditions such as stress and anxiety.

    Psychosocial effects involve heightened risks of gender-based violence, social marginalization, family separation, and loss of cultural identity, while infrastructural impacts include environmental degradation and the destruction of agricultural and urban systems.

    The review also documents adaptive responses among migrant populations and offers recommendations for improvement, highlighting the significant and multidimensional consequences of climate change for migrants in the region.

    Learn more about this review here: https://doi.org/10.3389/fclim.2024.1412285

    Reference

    Cabieses, B., & Huerta, C. (2024). Effects of climate change on migration in Latin America and Caribbean: A scoping review. Frontiers in Climate, Volume 6-2024

  • Climate Change and Migration: A Review and New Framework for Analysis

    Climate Change and Migration: A Review and New Framework for Analysis

    Seeing how most climate-related migration research remains overly environment – centric, a new interpretive framework is introduced in this article.

    The proposed framework considers five pathways through which climate change may influence migration: short-term shocks, long-term climatic changes, environmental “pull” factors, climate adaptation and mitigation measures, and perceptions and narratives.

    While reviewing evidence across these pathways, the study finds that short-term shocks can both increase and reduce migration, while long-term trends provide only a weak basis for predicting future dynamics.

    Nonetheless, it notes that the latter three pathways remain underexplored, by researchers and policymakers alike.

    Overall, the framework and evidence reviewed suggest a broader and more nuanced understanding of climate-related migration than that reflected in recent IPCC assessments and much of the existing literature.

    Learn more about this article here: https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.886

    Reference

    Daoust, G., & Selby, J. (2024). Climate change and migration: A review and new framework for analysis. WIREs Climate Change, 15(4)

  • Climate Change and Migration: Climate Change Induced Migration in International Law and the Human Right to a Sustainable Environment

    Climate Change and Migration: Climate Change Induced Migration in International Law and the Human Right to a Sustainable Environment

    As droughts, floods, sea-level rise, and other climate change induced phenomena are substantially threatening lives and livelihoods, forcing many to abandon their homes, despite the global dimension of these increasing phenomena, international legal instruments remain insufficient to deal with environmental migration, leaving those affected under insecure circumstances, and many unresolved issues.

    In an attempt at clarification on this complex problem, this paper discusses the difficulties surrounding climate-induced migration in international law and explains why the term “climate refugee” is not yet accurate or legally recognized. The case study of Ioane Teitiota v. New Zealand is used to show how these theoretical challenges affect individuals in practice.

    The paper concludes by exploring alternative approaches that move beyond existing legal frameworks, suggesting a shift toward integrating migration into climate adaptation strategies.

    It suggests that such efforts could be supported through adaptation funding and strengthened by emerging international legal developments, including the pending advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on the human right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment.

    Learn more about this study here: https://doi.org/10.25365/vlr-2023-7-1-94

    Reference

    Karnicar, Carina (2023), “Climate Change and Migration
    Climate Change Induced Migration in International Law and the Human Right to a Sustainable Environment”, University of Vienna Law Review, Vol. 7 No. 1 (2023)

  • Migration, Climate Change, and Voluntariness

    Migration, Climate Change, and Voluntariness

    Climate change challenges the means of subsistence for many, particularly in the Global South. To respond to the challenges of climate change, governments increasingly resort to resettling those most affected by land erosion, heat, drought, floods, and the like.

    In this article, the author investigates to what extent resettlement can compensate for the harm that climate-induced migration brings, and questions whether such measures can address the deeper ethical consequences of displacement.

    What are designated as three central harms are identified. First, climate change alters people’s options to such an extent that migration can no longer be considered fully voluntary and may even become coercive. Second, climate-induced migration severs individuals’ ties to territory, which are constitutive for personal autonomy. Third, the loss of traditional and historical lands undermines people’s capacity to imagine a future.

    It is concluded that although resettlement may improve material well-being and human flourishing, it cannot fully compensate for the harm done to individual autonomy, even when relocation is planned and chosen.

    Learn more about this study here: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0892679423000412

    Reference

    Straehle, C. (2023). Migration, Climate Change, and Voluntariness. Ethics & International Affairs, 37(4), 452–469

  • Climate Migration: A Gendered Perspective

    Climate Migration: A Gendered Perspective

    This article examines climate-induced migration through a gender-sensitive perspective, drawing attention to how pre-existing social, economic, and environmental vulnerabilities create a greater likelihood of being forced to move due to the impacts of climate change.

    This can be particularly true for women and girls who face intersectional and structural discrimination, which shapes their resilience, adaptation, and migration experiences.

    This gender dimension remains largely overlooked in research, data collection, and legal frameworks on climate change migration. The lack of gender-sensitive statistics and legal protections contributes to ongoing invisibility, vulnerability, and inadequate protection for affected populations.

    Therefore, the author analyzes the potential, recent developments, and limitations of international legal frameworks in addressing climate migration from a gender-responsive perspective, emphasizing the need to integrate gender considerations into protection mechanisms for climate migrants.

    Learn more about this study here: https://doi.org/10.3233/EPL-239008

    Reference

    Borràs-Pentinat, S. (2023). Climate Migration: A Gendered Perspective. Environmental Policy and Law, 53(5-6), 385-399

  • Preserve the Collective Memory & Intercultural and Intergenerational Exchanges

    Preserve the Collective Memory & Intercultural and Intergenerational Exchanges

    Proposal: Liberation and construction of fraternal Europe 1935 – 1945: 80 years of liberation and hope.

    Implementation:  2024 to 2025

    Call: CERV-2023-CITIZENS-REM – European Remembrance – 2023

    Type of Action: CERV-LS – CERV Lump Sum Grants

    Proposed Budget: 553 275,00€

    Keywords: Civil society, Combatting Anti-Semitism, EU integration, Racism, xenophobia, other forms of intolerance, Resistance under totalitarian regimes, Holocaust, Resistance, Youth involvement

    Objective: The project is part of the Remembrance 2023 program of the EU and the educational actions around the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Europe. It aims to preserve the memory of the victims, the righteous and the resisters to Nazism through actions in 10 European countries. “Europa: Fraternal Lands” is a call to action for all young Europeans and a collaborative learning and sharing tool for all citizens to build a more fraternal and united future, rejecting hate, violence and extremism.

    This project aims to preserve the collective memory of European history, to promote fraternity and solidarity, to encourage intercultural and intergenerational exchanges, and to strengthen active European citizenship. It sets up concrete actions to meet the identified needs, while ensuring gender equality and non-discrimination.

    The project’s actions aim to raise awareness among young Europeans of the values of fraternity and solidarity, recalling the importance of these values in European history. Thanks to the living libraries, complementary events are set up in the 8 countries of the project to allow: 

    The mobilization of major European memory centers on the Second World War, the exodus, the genocide, the Resistance and the construction of a peaceful future in Europe. This will allow young people and citizens to hear testimonies of this period.

    The mobilization of European universities to involve young people in the transmission of testimonies via a “living library” device. This implies the organization of digital communication projects and the creation of a living library to collect the life stories of the Righteous, the victims and the Resistance fighters in each country, as well as public operations to encourage the transmission of the word.

    The creation of communication campaigns on social networks to make the anniversary of the liberation joyful and educational.

    The meeting of the young ambassadors of the European youth in the European Parliament to discuss the lessons

    Partners:

    • Association Militants Des Savoirs
    • Young Educators – European Network
    • Fondazione Centro Di Documentazione Ebraica Contemporanea -Cdec Associazione
    • Fachhochschule Salzburg
    • Zapadoceska Univerzita V Plzni
    • University Of Bucharest
    • Institute Of Higher Education King Danylo University
    • Internationales Forschungszentrum Für Soziale Und Ethische Fragen
    • Novareckon
    • Post Bellum Zu
    • Les Territoires De La Mémoire
    • Stichting Liberation Route Europe
    • Scenor – Verein Zur Erforschung Aktueller Gesellschaftlicher Herausforderungen
    • Jeunes Européens Fédéralistes
    • Fondation Du Camp Des Milles Mémoire Et Education
  • Opposition & Youth-Led Movements in the Euromediterranean Region

    Opposition & Youth-Led Movements in the Euromediterranean Region

    Proposal: Research on Opposition, Building Trusts, and Youth-Led Movements in the Euromediterranean Region

    Implementation: 2024 to 2027

    Call: HORIZON-CL2-2024-DEMOCRACY-01 – Past, present and future of democracies

    Type of Action: HORIZON-RIA – HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions

    Proposed Budget: 2 999 036,25€

    Keywords: Participatory/Participation, New participatory democracy models, Youth, Political participation, Democracy, Engagement.

    Objective: In the Euromediterranean region, countries with varying degrees of democratic tradition coexist alongside those with authoritarian regimes. Despite this diversity, a key sector of the population – the youth – developed new ways of engaging with politics.

    However, they remain one of the most underrepresented groups and are susceptible to manipulation due to their extensive use of social media and the digital world. Despite the role that young people tend to play in democratization processes, such as the one experienced 10 years ago in the countries of North Africa, the political elite does not attempt to align with their positions. Instead, they tend to delegitimize the points of view and actions carried out by young people. 

    The main objective of the project is to encourage young people to participate in the electoral and democratic processes in different political systems, challenging the status quo. This will contribute to changing the mutual perception between youth and the political elite. This can be achieved by fitting into the existing culture of opposition and convincing the rest of the population of the need for new forms of participation while respecting the rights of all. 

    Thanks to the actions that will be implemented in this project, young people will be trained to abandon the use of violence and equipped with tools to detect radicalization. At the same time, the political leaders will also recognise the importance of embracing these new methods of comprehending society and the desires of young people. 

    This will generate fresh forms of participation that will strengthen democratic processes in countries where democracy is weak or non-existent and enhance and modernise fully democratic systems. The previous experience of the members of this consortium, combined with the presence of several partners in European university networks, will enable the scale and optimisation of the results to reach a large proportion of young people in the Euromediterranean region.

    Partners:

    • Universidad De Burgos
    • Young Educators – European Network
    • Panepistimio Dytikis Makedonias
    • Universidad Del País Vasco/ Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea
    • Associacio Novact
    • Institutul Român Pentru Acțiune, Instruire Și Cercetare În Domeniul Păcii
    • IM Cultural Institute
    • DAMJ
    • Cairo Institute For Human Rights Studies
    • Kaakkois-Suomen Ammattikorkeakoulu Oy
    • The Civics Innovation Hub Ggmbh