POLYCIVIS

Confronting the Polycrisis in Europe and Africa through Research, Policy and Education

PolyCIVIS is a Euro - African collaboration that brings to the forefront the global polycrisis, allowing a better understanding of the impacts of several concurrent major societal crises challenging the world in the form of a polycrisis.

Initiated in late 2023, PolyCIVIS allows discussion, collaboration and action arising out of the collaboration between universities in Europe and Africa. A Jean Monnet Network, (Policy Debate: Foreign policy issues: EU-AFRICA), PolyCIVIS mobilises a consortium of 21 universities: all 11 CIVIS Alliance universities, all 6 CIVIS African strategic partners, and an additional 4 African universities.

The project is dedicated to addressing these pressing global issues and their interconnected consequences. The Network looks at challenges such as the escalating economic and social disparities, environmental degradation, and the overarching climate crisis.

PolyCIVIS explores the polycrisis across:

• The different concurrent crises: looking at the intersection of current risks in a holistic approach
• Time: combining the latest science with overlooked lessons of the past
• Scientific disciplines and clusters: taking a multidisciplinary approach to responding to complexity of the polycrisis
• Territories and languages: understanding the different crises in terms of local, national, regional, continental specificities as well in terms of the language barriers