Dr. Favella Astrid,  Sapienza University of Rome, Roma (Italy)

Pr. Deriu Fiorenza, Sapienza University of Rome, Roma (Italy)

Pr. Rubat du Mérac Emiliane, Sapienza University of Rome, Roma (Italy)
Dr. Ruth Aura, Egerton University, Njoro (Kenya) 

Dr. John Oti Amoah, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast (Ghana)

Global challenges such as forced displacement and violence against women represent urgent matters calling for academia and policy practitioners’ attention. Seizing the opportunity of this forum to table educational actions addressing such polycrisis, education is seen as an avenue to empower individuals and include them in renewed societal contexts. 
Specifically, cross-border learner mobility engages with discussions upon mechanisms to foster social and economic inclusion avenues for forcibly displaced persons: recognition of foreign degrees and qualifications, the valorization of non-formal and informal knowledge, and the proactive action by European Universities Alliances, as CIVIS itself, as examples of trans-national organisations, increasingly gaining a voice as stakeholders in the policy-making mechanisms in this sector. 

Hence, the conceptual tool to analyse such global challenges and highlight joint solutions is the polycrisis lens. 

This panel, within Hub 2 contributions considers this polycrisis from several points of view, deeply engaging with the Europe-Africa relationship: the core idea for fostering multicultural societies here proposed, is the valorisation of each and every learner experience and skills gained in the perspective of a multi-age, multi-cultural society. 

Contributions aim to nurture the given prompt: “In the context of migration and forced displacement, how can educational systems and institutions foster inclusive, multilingual and multicultural societies?”. 

Ongoing and concluded research around dynamics characterizing violence against women in refugee camps, educational projects to address and overcome them, skill-certification/qualification recognition between Europe and Africa, risks of violence reification within institutions themselves, and the use of polysolutions lenses as a valuable theoretical tool to frame the theme, will be shared. 

Ultimately, the goal of the panel is to serve as a platform to collect experiences, discuss practices and build policy recommendations based on ongoing research, strongly bringing together the legal, sociological and educational oriented perspective.