The first objective intends to meet the needs of MNU by assisting with the development of curricula on climate change, but also ensuring that faculty is trained to teach on various aspects of climate change, including public health, human migration and displacement, economics of climate change and multi-level geopolitics of climate change. The curriculum will be tailored to local realities rather than follow a blanket 'one-size-fits-all' approach.

Planned activities and expected results under O1:

1. Development and implementation of curriculum on climate change.
2. A Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) will be coordinated by the Centre Virchow-Villermé (CVV) at the UParis on the topic of climate change and health. Additionally, each partner university will organize a webinar aimed at students, but also open to participation by relevant faculty and researchers on institutional key fields of expertise.

Support research capacities within MNU.

Planned activities and expected results under O2:

1. Complementary to the webinars proposed, a series of methodological workshops will be organized to improve the capacities of MNU to implement mixed-methods approaches to the study of climate change.
2. During the course of the project, one summer school on climate diplomacy, leadership, and resilience shall be organized in the Maldives. The summer school is intended as a training school, with various modules on different thematic and methodological aspects of climate change. It will be multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary so participants learn to collect and interpret data, design interdisciplinary research projects, place their research within the global advocacy work and cooperative frameworks initiated by international organizations or non-governmental actors.

The first two objectives, improving teaching and research capacity, require a third via communications, dissemination and exploitation and a long-term vision to increase the prominence of Maldivian universities within global academic fora. CHILDREN thus seek to provide support to MNU, its faculty, and students to facilitate Maldivian-led climate research so that it can thrive locally but also so that it may achieve international recognition.

Planned activities and expected results under O3:

1. CScholars from MNU are typically under-represented at large international conferences on environmental issues, often because of a lack of funding resources. They are therefore insufficiently integrated into research networks, and their research remains often unknown and little visible. Joint submissions of panels and papers to major conferences would counter this.
2. A common publication strategy will be developed in order to publicize and disseminate the research produced during the project.
3. CHILDREN also seek to draft joint research project proposals on climate change. These proposals will be submitted to international funding schemes such as the follow-up programme to Horizon 2020. Project proposals will capitalize on the thematic and methodological expertise of partners and the regional dimension of the Indian Ocean and Asia. Proposals will ensure that the impact of CHILDREN has a lasting impact beyond its duration.