Abstract
In the wake of the current global pandemic, international travel is restricted. This poses substantial challenges for research relationships aiming to build capacity and foster co-creation to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, where global collaboration and communication is paramount. This is especially challenging when it comes to interactive dialogues that go beyond the typical one-way structure of online learning. Considerations on structural, technical and behavioral levels are needed to not only deal with these challenges but rather to take advantage of the new situation. This commentary outlines the lessons learned from an internationally operating project, co-developed to cope with travel restrictions. We discuss implications for future reduction of international travel to reduce carbon in the context of climate change.
Highlights
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) address global challenges including climate change, equality, education and health for peace and prosperity
We will conclude with the main lessons learned to facilitate current and future projects relying on remote capacity building
Remote capacity building gives rise to more advantages than just carbon savings
Summary
Establishing a combination of information transfer, group work, result demonstration, discussion and breaks allows all participants to actively engage using the various channels of communication, and to efficiently switch between individual listening, individual responding, joint practicing, social discussing and recovering (Anzai and Simon, 1979; Hiltz et al, 2000; Yang and Liu, 2004; Chang et al, 2014). This brings us to the importance of time management. We identified visuals a key form of communication as they can be understood across language barriers and despite poor audio connections (Tufte, 2003; Susskind, 2005)
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