The Europaeum, a network of 18 leading European universities, provides tailor-made education programs for highly motivated students on the path to becoming top-level leaders. This funding supports a policy and leadership course for a cohort of doctoral candidates from within the network.

As part of a suite of activities designed to advance a more open, accessible, engaging, actionable, and humble form of research, ORCA will work with a group of funders to refine their grantmaking mechanics, ensuring that funding opportunities are accessible to researchers from diverse communities.

Hans Ijzerman and team at Annecy Behavioral Science Lab aim to create the first Global Index of Social Connection, with a focus on including the Global South. The Index will provide a universal method for understanding social needs fulfillment and serve as a tool to facilitate global comparisons.

A framework for teacher professional learning in Wales will be developed, emphasizing disciplinary and interdisciplinary teacher-teacher dialogue to align with the Curriculum for Wales. The subjects of Religion, Values, and Ethics, as well as Sustainability and Climate Change Education will be a focus.

Examining joy as an aspect of intelligence in non-human animals: chimpanzees, bonobos, the New Zealand-native kea parrot, and bottlenose dolphins.