The Consortium

PolyCIVIS is a CIVIS Alliance innovative project that brings together a great pool of international experts, reinforcing interdisciplinary collaborations between academics and scientists to work together towards the development of shared research, policy and education responses to polycrisis.

The project is coordinated by Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and each work package is jointly led by an African and a European university.

In the span of these 3 years, the work plan includes conferences, workshops with policy makers and stakeholders, and publications, allowing a strong response to complex and urgent transnational issues.

A bridge between CIVIS and its strategic partners

Christian Möllmann, CIVIS Global Partnerships Officer, underlines the importance of this new project within CIVIS:

“I see PolyCIVIS as a bridge between CIVIS and its strategic partner universities in Africa on the one hand, and Africa-EU foreign policy, targeted by the EU’s Call for Proposals, on the other. It brings the rich experience of academics from CIVIS and its partners in transdisciplinary, global challenge-oriented science to the foreign policy debate of our home continents. It does so through an analytically powerful and thought-provoking concept – the polycrisis – and a solidly built, yet diverse inter-continental academic network”.