The proposed cooperation between the UNIBO, Toyo, UPES and Stellenbosch rests on four collaborative pillars:
The first activity foresees the development of a collaborative website open to European, Asian and African teaching staff and students, as well as a wider audience, to promote the project activities, collect materials and gather articles on the project topics and aimed at supporting students learning and research activities. The website will be developed using UNIBO 'on demand' sites, guaranteeing UNIBO ownership.
Secondly, in 2025 incoming and outgoing mobility of teaching staff will take piace as well, with lectures centred on the project's main topics. The faculty members will also have discussion with MA students and plan future project activities, namely the Winter School and the students' conference.
The Winter School will take place in Tokyo in February 2025. UNIBO Students will be selected through a call for application. In this part of the project, students will also be taught to think about climate change and socio-environmental justice as a wicked problem, a complex problem in which there is no agreement on the nature of the problem, nor the solutions to it, which includes many stakeholders with different positionalities and power dynamics, and in which any attempt at solving it brings multiple unexpected consequences.
Lastly, a students' conference will take piace in January 2026. It aims to present research activities carried out by MA degree program students who participated in the project. A call for application to present abstracts for panel and posters will open in November 2025 on the project website. A selection of the best papers presented at the conference will be published in e-book format and shared on the website.