ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the relationship between academia and community engagement and how national and international community organizations and international academic institutions collaborated together to design the BGreen experience as a transnational participatory network spanning the US and Bangladesh. It presents academic-community partnerships from a variety of inter-disciplinary and transnational vantage points and from two geo-political locations in the global north and south—US and Bangladesh. The chapter identifies the general premise of such transnational academic-community partnerships in both countries and how BGreen plays out as it flows through both US and Bangladesh as it gains participatory network stability. BGreen’s goal at inception was to integrate dynamic US and Bangladeshi youth with diverse environmental experts, professionals and other climate-concerned global citizens in an action research platform that connects academic institutions, civil society organizations, international organizations and global youth
