Congratulations to Georgia Kremmyda for being awarded a grant of €999k for the project ‘ENHANCE- ENabling Humanitarian Attributes for Nurturing Community-based Engineering’.

The project is funded by the European Commission under the Erasmus + Key Action 2 Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices; Capacity Building in the field of Higher Education.

The project lists one European partner (Technologiko Ekpaideftiko Idryma Athinas, Greece) and seven Asian Partners (Gadjah Mada University; Institut Teknologi Bandung; Universitas Brawijaya; Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology; University of Dhaka; Ho Chi Minh University of Transport; Ho Chi Minh University of Technology) from Indonesia, Bangladesh and Vietnam. Funding to Warwick for this 3-year project is €236k.

Co-Is from Warwick are: Toby Mottram, Volkan Degirmenci, Irwanda Laory, Nicholas Monk and Gwen Van der Velden.

The project will initiate sustained reform of graduate engineering programmes in the partner HEIs by implementing inclusive, interdisciplinary, problem-based, experiential models of engineering education, based on humanitarian engineering. Deliverables to involve state-of-the-art reports, intensive training and practice-dialogue workshops, development of teaching and learning toolkits, European and Asian pilot seminars, peer-reviewed publications.