New Funded SSEES Project
21 January 2025
SSEES Academic Dr Irina Petrova is the Principal Investigator of a new funded SSEES project.

The project, titled "Mapping Community-Based Climate Solutions: Towards the Advancement of the Next-Generation Approaches in a Pluriverse World", is supported by UCL Global Engagement Funds (GEF).
Dr Petrova has started working on the project with partners Dr Akram Umarov (Co-I) from the Institute for Advanced International Studies (IAIS) at the University of World Economy and Diplomacy (UWED), Uzbekistan and Mrs Liliana Buitrago (Co-I), Political Ecology Observatory of Venezuela, Venezuela.
The project aims to establish new global long-term research and impact cooperation on planning for the future community action in view of the climate crisis. It draws practical knowledge from Venezuela and Uzbekistan, two countries with rich traditions of ecosocial thought and practice, strong community philosophies and geographical variety of Latin American and Eurasian traditions.