Adapting Climate Change Education Skills and Sustainability for Advancing Locally-Led Solutions, also called ACCESS4ALL, has recently hosted a progress sharing and platform introduction event at Six Seasons Hotel, Gulshan-2 in the capital Dhaka, according to a press release.
The event aimed to showcase the project鈥檚 progress, ongoing work on its online platform, as well as convene stakeholders to discuss the importance of focusing on capacity building for Bangladeshi higher education institutes and greater north-south collaborations to transform curricula for climate change education with partners working in the space of climate change education.
Funded under the Erasmus+ CBHE (Capacity Building for Higher Education) grants, ACCESS4ALL focuses on co-creating short course curricula and collating resources led by global south institutions to empower communities, professionals and young learners with the skills needed to drive locally relevant solutions.
The event opened with video-remarks from Laura Reichenbach, dean of BRAC James P Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University and director of the Centre of Excellence for Science of Implementation and Scale-Up (CoE-SISU).
It was followed by a welcome speech from Sabina F Rashid, professor and Mushtaque Chowdhury chair in health and poverty, BRAC JPGSPH and project director of ACCESS4ALL.
Bernd Spanier, deputy head of the EU delegation to Bangladesh, said as chief guest, 鈥楾his partnership creates opportunities for students and professors to handle the challenges posed by climate change. The collaboration between Bangladeshi institutions and European partners is a prime example of how an exchange between students and faculties creates lasting relationships.鈥�
Ishrat Jahan, research fellow at the BRAC JPGSPH, BRAC University and coordinator for ACCESS4ALL project, presented the project鈥檚 objective, key achievements and process documentation of creating the collaborative curricula.
This was followed by a panel discussion on 鈥楢mplifying the Global South in Climate Change Education in Higher Education Institutes,鈥� which included Imran Rahman, vice-chancellor of University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh; Samiya A Selim, professor and director, Centre for Sustainable Development of聽 ULAB; Roufa Khanum, assistant director, Centre for Climate Change and Environmental Research of BRAC University; Devjani Chowdhury, research associate from BRAC JPGSPH, and moderated by K Ayaz Rabbani, associate professor, Department of Environment Science and Management, School of Environment and Life Sciences of Independent University, Bangladesh.
The project is being taken forward by BRAC JPGSPH, BRAC University; Independent University, Bangladesh; University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh and two European partners 鈥� Maastricht University and Heidelberg University.
