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CHARM-EU educational project

During the first phase of the CHARM-EU project, the CHARM-EU team developed its Master’s in Global Challenges for Sustainability and laid out its educational model. CHARM-EU’s learning experiences place mobility and inclusivity at their core and are based on a transformative approach to programme and curricula design, combining the best of the different European traditions with a flexible, skill-oriented modular structure.

CHARM-EU delivers an innovative, challenge-driven, student-centred, and self-directed teaching model that integrates research, teaching, innovation, and inquiry within and across disciplines, open to the world. This model envisages a European higher education campus which uses the latest modern technology in the service of accessibility and internationalisation.

Within this project, colleagues from the partner universities worked together on curriculum design, teaching and learning, mobility and inclusion and more.

The collaboration between CHARM-EU partners resulted in designing several innovative tools, models, programmes, and practices, including the Master’s in Global Challenges for Sustainability. The educational tools and materials co-created during the collaboration are available in the CHARM-EU Toolkit.

UNI-ECO, Practical and Collaborative Tools for Sustainability Innovation in the University

As an associate alliance, CHARM-EU was also part of the ESEU project led by ECIU, which tested a possible European legal status for higher education institutions to simplify international cooperation and advised European policy-makers about shaping future policies in this field. Based on eight use cases, project partners analysed four legal structures (the European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation (EGTC), the Societas Europaea (SE), the European Cooperative Society (SCE) and the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT)) to identify risks and benefits of different structures and compare them to the needs of university alliances. In the final report, the project brought together all output to emphasize the need for a tailored European legal instrument for higher education institutions to overcome obstacles in transnational cooperation, formulating a roadmap with next steps necessary for such an instrument. During the final event of the project, nearly 200 colleagues from all over Europe gathered online and in Brussels to discuss the way forward for a European legal instrument that serves the needs of higher education institutions. You can learn more about ESEU on the website of the project.

ESEU

Based on eight use cases, project partners analysed four legal structures (the European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation (EGTC), the Societas Europaea (SE), the European Cooperative Society (SCE), and the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT)) to identify risks and benefits of different structures and compare them to the needs of university alliances.

In the final report, the project brought together all output to emphasize the need for a tailored European legal instrument for higher education institutions to overcome obstacles in transnational cooperation, formulating a roadmap with the next steps necessary for such an instrument.

During the final event of the project, nearly 200 colleagues from all over Europe gathered online and in Brussels to discuss the way forward for a European legal instrument that serves the needs of higher education institutions.

You can learn more about ESEU on the website of the project.