The VAMOS project brings together universities from Europe, Brazil and Honduras to facilitate an exchange of good practice in the field of Education for Sustainable Development. The overall objective is to strengthen university education for addressing SDG challenges in society through virtual exchange and joint international learning and teaching. The project will focus on 3 main aspects (development work packages): In a first step, we will bring together ESD teachers from all partners to discuss and evaluate methods of ESD and transformative education. In a second step, will organize training for virtual teaching and virtual exchange. In a third step, we will co-create and test a Virtual Exchange course on Wicked Problems with students and teachers from all partner universities. In addition, the project will organize two ESD Dialogue Forums in Brazil and Honduras to connect the project with stakeholders outside the partner universities in LATAM. In a broader sense, the project aims to develop solutions for a more sustainable form of internationalisation.

By focusing on urban resilience, CARE addresses one of the most urgent topics in EU and Latin America (LA). Most LA countries are dealing with climate risk management issues, but they lack a holistic and common approach to resilience. International cooperation seems then the best-fit environment where to develop joint learning tools, go in depth on peculiar research and deliver support to policy makers. An urban resilience framework calls for a process that brings together diverse departments and sectors to identify appropriate measures, responses and recovery. It needs transversal competences, e-skills, creativity and flexibility. CARE aims to challenge those issues by promoting HEI staff’s and students’ interdisciplinary skills by developing innovative educational approaches to planning. Furthermore, it aims to bring the challenge within the core of urban municipalities by directly and indirectly training professionals and officers to shape resilient policies.To attain this goals, CARE proposes an alternation of desk activities and workshops aimed at the collective production, development, sharing, testing and dissemination of Open Educational Resources (OERs), based on the use of collaborative Conceptual Maps. Being publicly available on the CARE e-learning platform in English and Spanish, they are expected to empower programme courses in HEIs (CARE Cmaps) and provide targeted training for professionals, public officers, policy makers (Open Training Modules).CARE outputs will challenge the complex and interconnecting issues related to urban resilience. It will operate to transfer resilience conceptual issues into operational capabilities in local government, civil society and professional communities.Finally CARE aims at establishing a network among LA, Europe and outside, to improve their educational capacities on urban resilience, as well as to transfer CARE results and findings to an operational policy perspective at different territorial levels.