On 22 July 2020, the Global Engagement Office hosted the UCL African Partners Summit to examine the impact of COVID-19 on global partnerships in higher education. It featured speakers from UCL's key partners across the African continent as well as UCL academics.

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This is the fourth and last webinar in a series entitled "European perspectives on COVID-19: governance, education, culture" hosted by the UCL Cities partnerships Programme, in collaboration with the UCL European Institute.

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This is the third webinar in a series entitled "European perspectives on COVID-19: governance, education, culture" hosted by the UCL Cities partnerships Programme, in collaboration with the UCL European Institute.

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This is the second webinar in a series entitled "European perspectives on COVID-19: governance, education, culture" hosted by the UCL Cities partnerships Programme, in collaboration with the UCL European Institute.

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This is the first webinar in a series entitled "European perspectives on COVID-19: governance, education, culture" hosted by the UCL Cities partnerships Programme, in collaboration with the UCL European Institute.

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Professor Monica Lakhanpaul (UCL Great Ormond Street Institute for Child Health), led team also including Professor Marie Lall (UCL Institute of Education and Pro-Vice-Provost South Asia) and Dr Priti Parikh (UCL Department of Civil, Environmental & Geomatic Engineering) to develop an integrated health, education and environmental intervention to optimise infant feeding practices through schools and Anganwadi networks in India. Partnering with Save The Children, Indian NGOs and village community members to co-design the intervention. Application came about following a UCL scoping visit to India led by GEO in 2016. They are among the first UK projects to receive a Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) award.

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Professor Monica Lakhanpaul used a Global Engagement Office-led visit to India to forge new connections both within UCL and beyond, as well as Global Engagement Funds to shape her own research direction. She and Professor Marie Lall (Pro-Vice-Provost South Asia) and Dr Priti Parikh (UCL Engineering) formed a new interdisciplinary collaboration working with a variety of partners in India to come up with new, community-led solutions to the problem of child malnutrition in rural areas. GEO supports UCL academics to put their knowledge and ideas into action, creating lasting good for people all around the world. Find out more at www.ucl.ac.uk/global

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Dr Colin Marx (UCL Development Planning Unit) used the Global Engagement Funds to strengthen his collaboration with Associate Professor Shuaib Lwasa at Makerere University. Their resulting publications led to additional larger-scale, externally-funded partnerships that are helping to make cities fairer. GEO’s seed funding programme helps create fair partnerships that promote collaboration, openness to ideas and mutual benefit for all. Find out more at www.ucl.ac.uk/global

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