American University in Cairo
For Sponsorship Of MYFest 2022
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Amount$38,784
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Program
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Date Awarded5/6/2022
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Term24.0 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Strategies
Overview
Equity Unbound, co-facilitated by American University in Cairo, is a collaboratively developed curriculum and community that creates equity-focused, open, connected, intercultural learning experiences across classes, countries, and contexts. Equity Unbound will design and co-create MYFest (Mid-Year Festival), a virtual learning experience for higher education and K-12 educators, educational developers, and librarians to explore open educational practices, open publishing, community building, and socially just education. Offerings will include one-off workshops, deep conversations in the style of virtually connecting hallway conversations, and longer tracks where participants will work together over several sessions to solidify and build on their learning in community. (Substrategy: Field Building)
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.aucegypt.edu
Address
AUC Avenue, P.O. Box 74, New Cairo, 11835, Egypt
Grants to this Grantee
for the Political Economy of the Global South Conference and activities
Based at the American University in Cairo, Pathways from Neoliberalism: Voices from the Middle East and North Africa will host the first Political Economy of the Global South Conference. The conference aims to bring together two areas that have suffered from acute academic neglect, namely political economy as an approach and the Global South as a subject matter.
for the Cairo Center for Learning and Excellence on Adaptation and Resilience
This grant supports the Cairo Center for Learning and Excellence on Adaptation and Resilience at American University in Cairo. Established after the U.N. Climate Convention Conference of the Parties in Sharm el-Sheikh in 2022, which increased the global focus on both climate adaptation and on the African continent, the center will address three sectors most affected by climate change: water resources, agriculture and food security, and health. It will help train and support a cadre of practitioners and leaders in Africa focused on climate adaptation and resilience. (Substrategy: Multilateral)
for support of Equity Unbound
Equity Unbound, co-facilitated by American University in Cairo, is an emergent, collaborative community that creates equity-focused, open, connected, intercultural learning experiences across countries and contexts. This grant will support the expansion and open dissemination of their global equity work, which is coordinated via a year-round roster of established professional activities and offerings. Their annual MYFest (Mid-Year Festival) virtual learning experience will engage higher education and K-12 educators, educational developers, and librarians in exploring open educational practices, open publishing, community building, and socially just education. (Substrategy: Field Building)
