Throughout 2020 and 2021 the Centre for the Study of Resilience collaborated with the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and Future Africa to produce open source content on transdisciplinarity and for female early career researchers. The collaboration consisted of two webinar series which can be found below:

1. The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) - Future Africa - 1HOPE (International One Planet for One Health Education Initiative): Youth Empowerment and Health/Economic Responses (to COVID-19), YEaH.

   UNICEF partnered with the University of Pretoria (UP) to scale up various skill-building and capacities to respond to COVID-19 with a focus on youth. The pandemic came with serious impacts and likely future risks for the next generation in terms of reduced opportunities for employment, exposure to health, and social consequences that cannot be addressed without harnessing the diversity and energy from higher education. UP, through collaboration between seven faculties and research centres, has several important flagship programmes (such as One Health, 1Hope, food nutrition, communication, and entrepreneurship) that can address the challenges that come with COVID-19. Future Africa coordinates this project and is divided into nine clusters with more than 100 scientists actively engaged from various disciplines. The intent is to reach 2000 students between August 2020 and January 2021 by building skills and capacities that will enable the youth to effectively respond to COVID-19.

   The CSR forms part of cluster 3.1 which focuses on promoting transdisciplinary (TD) research, training capacity development for doctoral and early career scholars in Africa. In order to achieve TD research capacity building, two TD research online workshops were held. The first workshop took place in November of 2020, the second in December of 2020 and a third in January of 2021. These workshops were held in collaboration with 1HOPE who seeks to educate the next generation of global citizens about the criticality of ensuring the sustainability of the planet and all species, made especially poignant at this time of global COVID-19 upheaval. The 1HOPE Webinar Series focuses primarily on training and developing resource capacity focused on young career scholars and doctoral students that can drive multi- and trans-disciplinary projects. These free-of-charge workshops were globally attended by various post-graduate students from different universities, doctoral and early career scholars, and experts from various disciplines who contribute to the body of TD knowledge.

   2. Transdisciplinary Research Capacity Development for Early Career Female Academics

   The Transdisciplinary Research Capacity Development webinar series focused on developing content based on participants' feedback on questions and concepts regarding the creation and implementation of a research proposal of their choice. The chosen research proposal could later be presented for peer and expert reviews.