This site presents the activities of 2 major research projects and tracks the careers of the alumni
1) The Adaptation and Resilience to Climate Change (ARCC) project focused on socio-ecological resilience in the borderlands area of Kenya and Tanzania — and is funded by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet), Sida and Formas (2016-06355) (2017–2020) (see Scaini et al., 2024).
2) Resilience in East African Landscapes (REAL) was a Marie Curie Actions Innovative Training Network (ITN), funded by the European Commission under the Seventh Framework Programme (2013–2017) (Grant agreement ID: 606879) (see REAL Final Report). The project resulted in 12 PhDs awarded, 120+ scientific publications, an exhibition that toured several cities in Europe and Africa, and several videos).
The aim of REAL was to provide a longer term historical perspective on human-environment interactions to enable future long-term sustainable use of East Africa’s fragile environment and resources. The project focused on the temporal, spatial, and social dynamics of human-landscape interactions in East Africa over the last millennium. By bringing together ecologists, archaeologists, anthropologists, geographers, historians and agronomists, the ITN provided cross-disciplinary training to a new generation of researchers, enabling them to interpret data relating to past and present socio-cultural and ecological dynamics from across the environmental and social sciences and the humanities.
The REAL project involved seven full participant research centres in Europe and nine international associate partners. REAL was funded by the European Commission through a Marie Curie Innovative Training Network (ITN). Please read our project overview or contact us for more information.
