Project Summary

The Planetary Health field seeks to understand the inextricable link between health and the environment. Embedding planetary health education in curricula is urgently needed to deliver new transdisciplinary, intersectoral solutions for communities facing complex planetary challenges. The “Catalysing Transformative Change in Planetary Health Education” (CATA-Earth) project brings together 6 Higher Education Institutions from The Netherlands, Spain, Bangladesh and Indonesia, collaborating with 4 local stakeholder organisations. The overall objective of CATA-Earth is to build capacity for designing and delivering innovative community-driven planetary health education in climatevulnerable regions in Asia and to create a new generation of change makers with actionable planetary health knowledge and skills. This is achieved by employing Community Engaged Learning and Challenge-Based Learning methods and a “Co-Design, Co-Develop and Co-Deliver” approach to involve non-academic stakeholders at all stages. The outputs include developing a planetary health education Framework and Toolkit that will result in 4 accredited planetary health HEI courses and a Massive Open Online Course, each incorporating the priorities of students, enterprises and local communities and aligned to regional socio-economic and environmental challenges. These courses will be delivered to at least 80 students during the project lifetime with accompanying capstone projects. 4 train the trainers programmes will create a cadre of over 40 academic teachers and community leaders to deliver a planetary health curriculum in partner regions. The framework, toolkit and an accessible knowledge repository for all deliverables and resources will support the widespread exploitation of CATA-Earth results in other Asian regions and beyond, thus heightening the visibility of Planetary Health and the essential role of innovative, community-driven higher education.

The Agreement

This Agreement (‘the Agreement’) is between the following parties:
on the one part,
the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) (‘EU executive agency’ or ‘granting authority’), under the powers delegated by the European Commission (‘European Commission’),
and
on the other part,

1. ‘the coordinator’:
   UNIVERSITAIR MEDISCH CENTRUM UTRECHT (UMC UTRECHT), PIC 999915189, established in HEIDELBERGLAAN 100, UTRECHT 3584 CX, Netherlands, and the following other beneficiaries, if they sign their ‘accession form’ (see Annex 3 and Article 40):
2. ASIAN UNIVERSITY FOR WOMEN (AUW), PIC 909079442, established in 20/A M M ALI ROAD, CHITTAGONG 4000, Bangladesh,
3. UNIVERSITAT OBERTA DE CATALUNYA (UOC), PIC 995992024, established in AVENIDA TIBIDABO 39, BARCELONA 08035, Spain,
4. NOAKHALI SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY UNIVERSITY (NSTU), PIC 902915189, established in SONAPUR ROAD, NOAKHALI 3814, Bangladesh,
5. GADJAH MADA UNIVERSITY (UGM), PIC 984820340, established in BULAKSUMUR, YOGYAKARTA 55281, Indonesia,
6. UNIVERSITY OF INDONESIA (UI), PIC 999877456, established in CENTRAL ADMINISTRATIVE BUILDING, DEPOK 16424, Indonesia,
7. ELEVATE BV (ELEVATE), PIC 940967707, established in NEWTONLAAN 203, UTRECHT 3584 BH, Netherlands,
   Unless otherwise specified, references to ‘beneficiary’ or ‘beneficiaries’ include the coordinator and affiliated entities (if any).