The AGILE Project successfully held the first online meeting of grant recipients under its Stress and Trauma Curriculum Co-design initiative on 20 January 2026, marking the formal launch of a collaborative and context-sensitive curriculum development process in Bangladesh.
The meeting brought together faculty members from eight universities who were selected through the AGILE Project grant call. The grant recipients are:
- Nadia Nahrin Rahman, Bangladesh University of Professionals
- Mahmudul Hasan, Comilla University
- Md. Abdul Kabil Khan, Daffodil International University
- Md. Aminul Islam, University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh
- Mst. Nasrin Akter, American International University-Bangladesh
- Sara Monami Hossain, Khulna University
- Md. Minhaz Uddin, Jagannath University
- Shabnam Zannat, Stamford University Bangladesh
The session was facilitated by members of the AGILE/CJEN Project team (Sofie Byrnes Gullberg, Maria Pettersson, Josefine Hornberg, Jesmin Pepri and Jude William Genilo), who introduced the overall objectives of the initiative, emphasizing the importance of trauma-informed, locally grounded, and ethically designed curricula that respond to experiences of stress and trauma within higher education contexts.
During the meeting, participants were briefed on the tentative project timeline, which includes online orientation activities, local co-design meetings scheduled for March 2026, Training of Trainers (ToT) sessions in March–April 2026, budget submission and course implementation planned for August–October 2026.
Grant recipients also shared initial reflections on their institutional contexts and discussed how participatory co-design can strengthen institutional capacity to address stress, trauma, and wellbeing among students and faculty.
The meeting concluded with a shared commitment to collaboration, reflexivity, and peer learning, setting a strong foundation for the next phases of the AGILE Project’s Stress and Trauma Curriculum Co-design initiative in Bangladesh.
