Department Scientific Coordinator: Marco Borraccetti
Other members at the SPS Department: Susanna Villani
Other participants:
WeWorld Onlus; Action Aid Hellas – Greece; ALDA – European Association for Local Democracy – France/Belgium; Alianza por la Solidariedad – Spain; Bulgarian Environmental Partnership Foundation – Bulgaria; Buy Responsibly Foundation – Poland; European Environmental Bureau – Belgium; FINEP – Forum für internationale entwicklung +planung – Germany; Hungarian Baptist Aid – Hungary; Istituto Marques de Valle Flor – Portugal; Municipality of Bologna – Italy; Oxfam Deutschland – Germany; RCSWSP – Research Centre University of Nicosia – Cyprus; SLOGA – Slovenian Global Action Platform – Slovenia; Südwind – Austria
Abstract
The European project, launched within the European Commission’s DEAR Programme, aims to develop young EU citizens’ awareness of the complex relation between climate change and migration flows in their countries and abroad. For this reason, four main areas of intervention have been identified: research, awareness, Pan-European campaign and advocacy. The University of Bologna contributes to the project with interdisciplinary research, through the involvement of four departments: Political and Social Science (DSPS); Agricultural and Food Sciences (DISTAL); Sociology and Business Law (SDE); History and Cultures (DISCI). The university aims to engage people in an informed movement in which they are ready not only to change their habits to adopt a sustainable and conscious lifestyle, but also to demand development policies to tackle global warming. Thus, they acknowledge that this phenomenon, in all its complexity, is a driver of migration and forced displacement.
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