Senior Lecturer
<p>Andrea is a co-investigator on<a href="http://projectcobra.org/" rel="nofollow">Project COBRA</a>, a€1.9 million research project funded by the European Union. <span> COBRA is researching ways to integrate community solutions within policies addressing escalating social, economic and environmental crises, through accessible information and communication technologies.</span></p><p>The aim of Project COBRA is to empower communities by building their own capacity so that they can:</p><div>- Surface current and emerging challenges;</div><div>- Identify their own solutions to these challenges;</div><div>- Record these solutions using visual technologies;</div><div>- Share their results with other communities;</div><div>- Implementing best practices from other communities.</div><div>- Demand that policymakers support community owned solutions.</div><div> </div><div>Andrea has co-authored a<a href="http://projectcobra.org/how-to-find-and-share-community-owned-solutions/" rel="nofollow">Practitioner Handbook</a>in order to allow other facilitators to build capacity within communities so that communities members themselves can identify and share their own solutions to current and emerging challenges.</div><div> </div>
<div>Andrea Berardi has more than 20 years experience in teaching, researching and building capacity for enabling sustainable communities. After achieving a number of qualifications in ecology (BSc), nature conservation (MSc) and environmental science (PhD), he has taught at the London School of Economics, University College London, Royal Holloway, and The Open University. His work has engaged communities from the Borneo and Amazonian rainforests; the floodplains of the Mekong and the Guianas; the savannas of East Africa and Latin America; and the coastal regions of southern Italy and Wales.</div><div> </div><div>His main interests lie in facilitating grass roots approaches to ecological sustainability and social justice using an action learning process. The aim is to enable communities to collaboratively learn from their own practical experiences using local resources (rather than being told what to do from"experts" or relying on external support).</div><div> </div><div>Andrea currently lives in Englefield Green, Surrey, with his wife and two children. Apart from working full-time as a lecturer for the Open University, he also tries to walk his talk through growing vegetables on several allotments, keeping hens, managing a woodland, having a low consumption lifestyle and participating in a range of activities locally and in support of the UK Green Party, CND, Amnesty International, and Greenpeace. </div><div> </div>
Dr Andrea Berardi
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Andrea Berardi
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<div>Andrea Berardi has more than 20 years experience in teaching, researching and building capacity for enabling sustainable communities. After achieving a number of qualifications in ecology (BSc), nature conservation (MSc) and environmental science (PhD), he has taught at the London School of Economics, University College London, Royal Holloway, and The Open University. His work has engaged communities from the Borneo and Amazonian rainforests; the floodplains of the Mekong and the Guianas; the savannas of East Africa and Latin America; and the coastal regions of southern Italy and Wales.</div><div> </div><div>His main interests lie in facilitating grass roots approaches to ecological sustainability and social justice using an action learning process. The aim is to enable communities to collaboratively learn from their own practical experiences using local resources (rather than being told what to do from"experts" or relying on external support).</div><div> </div><div>Andrea currently lives in Englefield Green, Surrey, with his wife and two children. Apart from working full-time as a lecturer for the Open University, he also tries to walk his talk through growing vegetables on several allotments, keeping hens, managing a woodland, having a low consumption lifestyle and participating in a range of activities locally and in support of the UK Green Party, CND, Amnesty International, and Greenpeace. </div><div> </div>