Join us for a new edition of CHARM ON, the monthly online series that explores CHARM-EU’s innovative practices through concrete experiences from across the Alliance.
This CHARM ON session focuses on CHARM-ED, an initiative that supports staff in developing and enhancing educational practices across CHARM-EU. Through collaboration, experimentation, and knowledge exchange, CHARM-ED provides opportunities to explore new approaches to teaching and learning that reflect the Alliance’s educational vision.
To bring this work to life, the session will delve into two CHARM-ED projects. One explores challenge-based learning in analytical chemistry laboratories through the CLIP Lab initiative. The other examines how Education for Sustainable Development can be embedded in teaching practice and curriculum design. Together, these examples offer insights into how educational innovation emerges, develops, and creates value for students, educators, and institutions across the Alliance.
Date: Monday, 29 June
Time: 13:00–14:00 CET
Format: Online panel discussion (live stream + sound recording available afterwards)
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This event is open to all members of CHARM-EU universities — educators, researchers, students, and professional staff — and to anyone curious about seed funding educational innovation in higher education. No registration required.
Each CHARM ON features a moderated panel with voices from across our university community (educators, researchers, students, and support staff) sharing concrete experiences that bring CHARM-EU’s approaches to life. Together, they connect principles to practice, point to good examples in our Service Portfolio, and signpost trainings and follow-up opportunities offered by the Alliance.
CHARM ON will take place on the last Monday of each month at 13:00 CET, offering a regular space to share ideas, practices, and impact stories across the CHARM-EU community.
You can listen to our previous CHARM ON sessions on our Spotify channel here.
Cicely Roche is Fellow in Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), and Associate Professor in Pharmacy Practice at Trinity College Dublin. Her key research interest is the development of ethical/moral reasoning competencies, i.e. abilities that underpin decision-making through the ambiguity inherent in moral dilemmas, and she continues to explore approaches to curriculum design that scaffold participants’ development of these abilities and support ethically defensible decision-making through ambiguity – competencies that are core to ESD (UNESCO, 2017). She is currently leading a CHARM-Ed Partnership between TCD, ELTE and UB titled ‘Enacting Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in Higher Education: Guided by Theory, Grounded in Teaching Practice development’.
Tahmer Sharkawi is Associate Professor at the University of Montpellier. His research interests focus in polymer chemistry and materials for health applications and pharmaceutical technology. He is the UM local coordinator of the Capstone phase of the CHARM-EU Master’s program and have been involved in the development of this phase since the first cohort. He is also part of the Team-based, transdisciplinary joint CHARM-EU Doctoral programme development team and have co-organized the first two editions of the CHARM-EU Doctoral Summer School where researchers work as teams to co-develop a transdisciplinary research proposal on a real-life challenges.
Ádám Tóth is a researcher in (ground)water, sustainability and education innovation at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development at Utrecht University. Ádám is the co-lead of the educational practice work package of the CHARM-EIGHT project. He is involved in updating the existing master’s programme in Global Challenges for Sustainability, exploring educational opportunities for a broader audience to develop knowledge, including a strategy for micro-credentials, badges, and continuing education, as well as a team-based, transdisciplinary joint CHARM-EU Doctoral programme.
