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Cecilia Mañosa Nyblon leads international multi-stakeholder programmes at the interface of science, health, education, and the arts through storytelling leveraged at COP Climate Change Conferences and other fora to inspire climate action and solutions for a greener, healthier, and fairer future since 2020. This includes being awarded a British Embassy Gulf Strategy fund for COP28: We Are The Possible between UK and UAE (2023) delivered at Blue/Green Zones at COP28 and other fora reaching over 6 million people worlwide. Working with The Theatre of Others these new poems are the inspiration for new sustainable performances at theatre schools around the world, and the bedrock of music and soundscapes created by academics and students at BIMM Institute. Cecilia co-founded Schools Across the Ocean Programme, a ground breaking initiative twinning schools in UK and UAE through science, fieldtrips, art, and creative writing partnering the University of Exeter, the University of Khorfakkan and Emirates Literature Foundation and a network of schools in UK and UAE to amplify children's voices and actions to care for the ocean. This programme builds on the successful legacies of COP27 We Still Have a Chance (Egypt 2022) and COP26 One Chance Left (2021), which have already reached 28 million people worldwide.

In her role as Education and Skills Partnership Development Manager (IIB) she leads on the development of an external facing portfolio of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) opportunities for the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences and has helped shaped the CPD/Executive Education provision at a university wide level.

She is passionate about working collaboratively and in interdisciplinary teams to develop impactful, innovative, and inspirational lifelong learning courses and training for professionals. Cecilia’s CPD contribution was recognised with an Ambition Award by the University of Exeter (2019).

Cecilia worked as an anthropologist/archaeologist educator in Uruguay, the USA and Panama prior to moving to the UK including the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (Panama), Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian (USA) and Kentucky Archaeological Survey (USA).

AWARDS

• 2024 - Sustainable Futures Award - Knowledge Exchange Award - University of Exeter for We Are the Possible.
• 2024 - Global Call Winner – Science Engagement (in the category climate change and adaptation) for We Are the Possible (COP28) Falling Walls Foundation (Germany)
•  2023 - Nominated in the top 25 global projects for the Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici (CMCC) - Climate Change Communications Award Rebecca Ballestra (Italy) out of 372 international project
• Nominated in the Top 50 finalist for Falling Walls Engage for We Still Have a Chance (COP27)
• 2023 - Finalist for joint Community award (with Dr Sally Flint) University of Exeter for COP26 One Chance Left 
• 2019 – Ambition Award at the University of Exeter for her contributions to developing innovative, impactful, and inspirational lifelong learning courses and training for healthcare professionals

SELECTED COLLABORATIVE PUBLICATIONS

We Are the Possible:12 Poems for 12 Days of COP28 between Uk and UAE (2023)

We Are the Ocean: An Anthology of Poems Co-Created by Children of the United Kingdom and United Arab Emirates for the Climate Change Conference in Dubai (2023)

New Narratives for a Healthy Planet - The Lancet Planetary Health (2023)

Special Issue ‘Planetary Health: Building the Field and Growing the Movement (Including Manuscripts 2022 Planetary Health Annual Meeting and Festival (2023)

We Still Have a Chance: 12 Poems for 12 Days of COP27 between UK and Egypt (2022)

One Chance Left: 12 Poems for 12 Days of COP26 (UK) (2021)