HEStaff exchange2024–2027

EDGES · Entangling Indigenous Knowledges in Universities

Horizon Europe — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Duration: 2024-01-01 → 2027-12-31
EU contribution: €1,389,200
Participants: 21
Scheme: HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-SE

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Project objective

Indigenous knowledges are crucial for coping with current global crises, such as climate change, loss of biocultural diversity and rise of xenophobic nationalisms. This pivotal historical moment requires multi-centred thinking and action, bringing together the multiplicity of Indigenous and academic expertise. Universities and academia are critically important in developing knowledge, education, and policy directives. Consequently, EDGES adopts those significant arenas to respectfully advance innovative, collaborative methodologies and new strategies for the entanglement of Indigenous knowledges in research, teaching and policy-making institutions. While there have been efforts to foster dialogue with Indigenous knowledges, these experiences remain elusive, local and not structurally transformative, as the shortcomings of multiculturalism and interculturality have demonstrated. How can we question the existing frameworks and develop new and effective entanglements of knowledges that draw from different epistemologies? EDGES addresses this question through six different analytical layers with the significant participation of Indigenous academic researchers and the active collaboration of Indigenous intellectuals and experts. To accomplish this endeavour, EDGES creates a future sustainable and disciplinary diverse network of more than 150 researchers from 18 European and American universities, one SME and one NGO. The project contributes to a pluralist and multi-scale approach to knowledge production, research and dissemination through symposiums, workshops, mini-courses, open-access scientific publications, policy recommendations and social media. It will provide critical tools for universities, schools and communities to foster critical dialogue with Indigenous peoples and other cultural minorities by entangling Indigenous knowledges into university curricula and praxis, contributing to the education of future generations, improving policies and science renewal.

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UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA · LisboaCoordinatorPortugal
CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES Y ESTUDIOS SUPERIORES EN ANTROPOLOGIA SOCIAL · Mexico DfMexico
CENTRO EM REDE DE INVESTIGACAO EM ANTROPOLOGIA · LISBOAPortugal
FUNDACAO UNIVERSIDADE DO AMAZONAS · ManausBrazil
HELSINGIN YLIOPISTO · HelsinkiFinland
INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS SOCIAIS · LISBOAPortugal
INTERMEDIA PRODUCCIONES SL · Bollullos De La MitacionSpain
PHILIPPS UNIVERSITAET MARBURG · MarburgGermany
PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DEL PERU · LimaPeru
THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK · Albany NyUnited States
THE UNIVERSITY COURT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS · ST ANDREWSUnited Kingdom
UNIVERSIDAD ANDINA SIMON BOLIVAR · QuitoEcuador
UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE · SantiagoChile
UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES FUNDACION · Bogota DcColombia
UNIVERSIDAD DE SEVILLA · SevillaSpain
UNIVERSIDAD MAYOR DE SAN ANDRES · La PazBolivia
UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE GENERAL SAN MARTIN · San Martin Buenos AiresArgentina
UNIVERSIDAD PABLO DE OLAVIDE · SevillaSpain
UNIVERSITE LIBRE DE BRUXELLES · Bruxelles / BrusselBelgium
UNIVERSITE PARIS NANTERRE · Nanterre CedexFrance
Universidade Federal do Pará · BelémBrazil

EDGES · Entangling Indigenous Knowledges in Universities

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