VEREAD wants to be the privileged tool to make young European and African people engage in a transnational virtual dialogue and interactive exchange of ideas about Religion, to fight any form of intolerance and promote intercultural understanding. The consortium is highly diverse with six partners based in Sub-Saharan Africa (Kenya, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Uganda and South Africa) and four in EU countries (Italy, Poland and France). The project wants to achieve the following specific objectives: enhance critical thinking and stimulate cross-cultural virtual interaction about Religion among students from different cultural backgrounds and countries; promote equal learning opportunities for all and make higher education more accessible through virtual exchanges; disseminate knowledge about Religion, with an interdisciplinary and comparative study approach, to foster a culture of tolerance against any gender, ethnic and religious discrimination; provide students with methodological and digital skills that can support them in their studies and careers (with the target of 500 formally achieving the forseen learning outcomes); strengthen the capacity building of the partner institutions through ad-hoc virtual training for teaching staff in online pedagogy; finally, to multiply possibilities for collaboration among European and African universities and research centres. These objectives will be achieved through the implementation of an online capacity building programme (virtual training of at least 20 lecturers and 50 facilitators), an integrated virtual exchanges programme for students including interdisciplinary online lectures on specific topics, cross-cultural VE among international break-out groups and working projects, as well as short online interactive workshops and seminars for a broader public of young people. The goal is to involve at least 2500 international participants from 12 countries and to introduce the VE in the educational offer of at least 9 institutions.