Enhancing Skills in Polycrisis Management: African and European Approaches

Partner universities:

• National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greece)
• Sapienza Università di Roma (Italia)
• Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain)
• University of Salzburg (Austria)
• Makerere University (Uganda)

Professors:

• Kanifa Kamatara, Makerere University, is an animal scientist with a speciality in meat quality assessment. Her research has focused on the development of climate smart strategies for livestock keepers to produce more quantities of quality meat in an environmentally sustainable manner and reduce the amount of GHG per unit of meat produced. She offers expertise on the integration of innovative climate smart livestock practices that can be integrated over time under different production scenarios (Cultivators-Livestock production systems, Peri-Urban systems, etc).
• Anthony Tibaingana, Université Libre de Bruxelles, worked on international project such as Global Business Labs, Polycivis Project funded by European Union in collaboration with Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) in Brussels, Belgium and WU (Vienna university of economics and Business) Austria. Anthony brings in the business and marketing skills to this BIP to guarge the impact where possible of polycrisis to economic developement. With a wide experience in cordinatng short course training this will be critical in the implementation.
• Gudrun Zagel, Paris-Lodron University of Salzburg, is professor of International and European Law at Paris-Lodron University of Salzburg. She also served repeatedly as an arbitrator at the FDI Moot, the VIS Moot, and the ELSA WTO Moot, and is a member of the Society of International Economic Law and the African Society of International Law. In the CIVIS Alliance, she represents the University of Salzburg in the Hub “Climate, Environment, and Energy”, which has been developing the Transdisciplinary Master on Climate, Energy, and Environment, and is co-chairing the Work Package “Teaching” in the Jean Monnet Network PolyCIVIS together with Makarere University. 
• Fiorenza Deriu, Sapienza Università di Roma, is a Sociologist, a member of the Sapienza Governance as the Rector's Delegate for the Erasmus+ Mundus Program and Coordinator of the new Erasmus+ 2021-2027 Program. She is the academic contact of the Erasmus program for the Department of Statistical Sciences (RAM). She is currently the scientific director of the Jean Monnet Module "SPEAK-UP” SPreading women's Empowerment and AKtive citizenship values ​​to enhance Union Policies combating gender discrimination and violence in a globalised world, funded by the European Commission. She is the local coordinator of the Project "ResearchCult" within the Erasmus+ Capacity Building Programme.
• Maria Dolores, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, is a professor in the Department of English Philology, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. She served as Deputy Director of this Department (2008-2012), Coordinator of the Master's Degree in Teacher Training in Secondary Education (2010-2016). Her research experience is in intonation and prosody studies in English and Spanish. Her second line of research addresses second language acquisition and learning through digital technology in bilingual education and multicultural environments, has coordinated national and international research projects on language learning through the use of digital technology and linguistic analysis.
• Yazidhi Bamutaze, Makerere University, holds a PhD. (Geography), MSc. (Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation), MA. (Geography) and BA (Geography). He is working at Makerere University and holds the rank of Associate Professor in the Department of Geography, Geo-Informatics and Climatic Sciences (GGCS), Makerere University. Bamutaze was the Chair, GGCS for four years, 2015-2019 and is currently an elected member of University Senate representing the School of Forestry, Environment and Geographical Sciences. Bamutaze developed the curriculum for the MSc. Program on Disaster Risk Management currently running at Makerere University. Where he has championed research on disaster risk reduction and resilience.
• Dimitris Gouscos, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, is Tenured Assistant Professor at the Department of Communication and Media Studies of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, where he leads the Participatory Governance and Digital Social and Humanitarian Innovation track of the MSc in Digital Communication Media and Interaction Environments. He has co-ordinated project teams for the Organosi 2.0 platform for self-organized social solidarity initiatives in Greece, the TAXISnet electronic public service in the Greek Ministry of Finance (eEurope Good Practice Label 2001). He has worked as a consultant in Knowledge Economy and Science, with the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia.
• Roman Puff, Paris-Lodron University of Salzburg, is Executive Director at the Salzburg Centre of European Union Studies, Austria.