During this week, the Pablo de Olavide University is hosting the first meeting of the European project "Empowering climate resilience" (CARE), funded with almost one million euros and coordinated by Pilar Paneque Salgado, researcher in the area of Human Geography at the UPO. Members of the Unión Iberoamericana de Municipalistas de España; the Politecnico di Milano; the Centro di Servizio e Consulenza of the Politecnico di Milano; the Centro Regionale d’Intervento per la Cooperazione Onlus from Italy; Universiteit Twente from the Netherlands; Universidad de Concepción and Pontificia Universidad Católica from Chile; Universidade Federal do Pará and Fundacao Universidade Federal do Abc from Brazil; Universidad de Ibagué; Universidad de Tolima and Universidad Nacional from Colombia; Universidad de la República and Universidad Tecnológica Equinoccial from Uruguay; and Universidad Técnica Estatal de Quevedo, Ecuador.

Eva Valle Casanova from the European Commission's Education Agency will also speak. The overall objective of the CARE project is to promote interdisciplinary skills of teachers and students of higher education institutions, as well as public administration staff and freelancers, in relation to the need to increase urban resilience to the effects of climate change. To this end, innovative educational approaches and new learning and teaching techniques linked to the use of open and collaborative resources (Open Educational Resources) will be developed and tested both in Europe and Latin America. This project has been funded until 2018 by the European Union programme for Education, Training, Youth and Sport for 2014-2020 (Erasmus+ Capacity Building in the field of Higher Education), which aims to boost skills and employability, as well as the modernisation of education, training and youth employment. It is also the first project of this type coordinated by the Universidad Pablo de Olavide. The Vice-rectorate for Internationalisation and the area of International Relations and Cooperation, responsible for the management of the Erasmus International Capacity Building projects at the UPO, are jointly involved in the organisation and development of this meeting.

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