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Catalysing Transformative Change in Planetary Health Education
About CATA-Earth
“Catalysing Transformative Change in Planetary Health Education”
The Planetary Health field seeks to understand the inextricable link between health and the environment. Embedding planetary health education in curricula is urgently needed to deliver new transdisciplinary, intersectoral solutions for communities facing complex planetary challenges. The “Catalysing Transformative Change in Planetary Health Education” (CATA-Earth) project brings together 6 Higher Education Institutions from The Netherlands, Spain, Bangladesh and Indonesia, collaborating with 4 local stakeholder organisations. The overall objective of CATA-Earth is to build capacity for designing and delivering innovative community-driven planetary health education in climate-vulnerable regions in Asia and to create a new generation of change makers with actionable planetary health knowledge and skills.
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VIDEO DOCUMENTARY
The Taste of Salted Wind
Updates and Highlights
Keep updated with the progress of the CATA-Earth project
ANNUAL CONSORTIUM MEETING
CATA-Earth Annual Consortium Meeting 2025: A Week of Reflection, Collaboration, and Vision in Utrecht
FOCUS GROUP DISCUSSION
NSTU Organizes Focus Group Discussions to Uncover Coastal Community Challenges in Hatiya
Health CAMP
Community Medical Outreach in Coastal Hatiya: A Response to Emerging Health and Environmental Challenges
The ePlanet Project
Explore ePlanet for more planetary health education resources!
CATA-Earth is proud to present the ‘European Platform for Planetary Health
Education’ (ePlanet) project. This Erasmus+ project, also coordinated by UMC Utrecht, provides educational resources on planetary health that can easily be integrated in several educational contexts or formats.
Latest News & Insights
Take a look at the latest news, updates and insights about the CATA-Earth project
Publications
Conceptual frameworks, competencies, contents and teaching methods in planetary health education for health students and professionals: a global systematic scoping review
Carme Carrion, Camilla Alay Llamas, Eka Dian Safitri, Carola Domènech-Panicello, George S. Downward, Ardi Findyartini, Nadia Greviana, Indah Kartika Murni, Sie Meng Lee, Mireia Llimós, Ariadna Moreno, Shannon Leigh O’Brien, Isabel Ruiz-Mallén, Diantha Soemantri, Indah Suci Widyahening, Respati Wulansari Ranakusuma, Dewi Yunia Fitriani & Cristina O’Callaghan-Gordo
Published: 01 July 2025
—WORK PACKAGES—
The CATA-Earth Project comprises six work packages.
Work Package 1
Community-Driven Transformational PH Education Framework & Toolkit
Lead Beneficiary:
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), Spain
1
Work Package 2
Community-driven Planetary Health Course
Development; Curriculum Implementation and Evaluation
Lead Beneficiary:
Asian University for Women (AUW), Bangladesh
2
Work Package 3
Train the Trainers
Lead Beneficiary:
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), Spain
3
Work Package 4
Knowledge repository creation and management
Lead Beneficiary:
Noakhali Science and Technology University (NSTU) ,Bangladesh
4
Work Package 5
Project & Quality Management
Lead Beneficiary:
Universitair Medisch Centrum Utrecht, Netherlands
5
Work Package 6
Communications & Dissemination
Lead Beneficiary:
University of Indonesia
6
The CATA-Earth project Consortium
Coordinator
Universitair Medisch Centrum Utrecht, Netherlands
Beneficiaries
Noakhali Science and Technology University, Bangladesh
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), Spain
Asian University For Women (AUW), Bangladesh
Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia
Eelvate B.V., Netherlands
University of Indonesia
CATA-Earth Project – by the numbers
7
Number of Participants
From 4 countries (Bangladesh, Indonesia, Netherlands and Spain)
6
Work packages
Total 44 deliverables
36
Months
Duration of the project
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