The University of Malta was recently awarded a six-year Erasmus Mundus Joint Master project known as which is the first of its kind with the University as Lead Partner.
The awarded proposal was one of 58 applications submitted on the Funding and Tenders Portal. It has a consortium of four project partners and five associated partners and a budget of €4.6 million. The University’s principal investigator is Carmel Cefai, Director of the Centre for Resilience & Socio-Emotional Health and Professor in Psychology at the Faculty for Social Wellbeing.
The EMJM programme seeks to address the need to provide a meaningful, relevant and balanced education for children growing up in adverse and marginalised circumstances by focusing on their strengths and building their assets within protective contexts. It will address a clear gap in the field, namely the training and education of educators and practitioners so as to be able to empower children and young people with the necessary competencies to deal effectively with the obstacles and challenges in their education and development.
This need for practitioners’ education in resilience has been reported across cultures and regions of the world, and the will address this need at both European and international levels by providing postgraduate, high-quality resilience education for educators and other practitioners, integrating theory and practice within a strength-based, systemic perspective to education and human development.
The University of Crete, The University of Lisbon and The University Stefan Cel Mare Suceava are the other project partners in the consortium together with five associated partners in Canada, Ireland, Sweden, Switzerland and South Africa, and they are very well-placed to provide this much needed training.
This programme is the first international, Joint Master Degree in Resilience in Educational Contexts led by a consortium of four degree-awarding partners and five associated partners. It is a two-year, full-time programme consisting of taught study-units, a practice placement, a dissertation, and a summer school, spread over four mobility moves. Four cohorts of students will be trained over a six-year period. The project starts in September 2022.
Prof. Cefai was assisted by Sarah Albanozzo from the Research Support ¸£ÀûÔÚÏßÃâ·Ñ Directorate and by Donia Farrugia from the Project Support Office, at the University of Malta.
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