A shared virtual campus for CHARM-EU: one environment, one login
A joint programme requires a joint digital environment CHARM–EU is running a joint programme, the Master ‘Global Challenges in Sustainability’. The students of this programme receive their education from academic staff at several CHARM-EU institutions simultaneously. A well-accessible joint virtual campus that everyone can access without problems is therefore crucial. So far, this was solved […]
Capstone projects – Master’s in Global Challenges for Sustainability – 4th Edition 2024 – 2026
The capstone phase is designed to build on students’ knowledge, skills, and prior learning gained during the previous modules of the Master’s programme. Students will, in collaboration with extra-academic actors, investigate and evaluate a complex societal challenge from a variety of intercultural and transdisciplinary perspectives. They will cooperatively work on the challenge in teams of […]
Mobile Geo-location Learning Experiences using the Peek App
Learn how CHARM-EU uses a mobile geo-location app for active learning with its students. Situated learning, one of the CHARM-EU educational principles, is where students learn through social interaction in authentic, realistic contexts. Walking through a city or field trip location and observing its culture, nature, and infrastructure can transform how students understand global challenges. […]
Reflections on TeLEd 2025: A Year of Insight, Innovation, and Inspiration
Across sessions spanning AI, creativity, compassion, instructional design, and teacher development, a common thread emerged: how to create meaningful, humane, and future-ready learning experiences amid rapid change. Recordings of all sessions are now available for educators in the CHARM-EU partner universities. With recordings of every session now available, the 2025 TeLEd series remains a valuable […]
Call for Proposals: CHARM-EU Blended Intensive Programmes (BIPs) 2026/2027
Coordinating institution: Any CHARM-EU partner university Background As part of CHARM-EU’s mission to promote innovative, challenge-driven, and transdisciplinary education, partner universities are invited to design and implement Blended Intensive Programmes (BIPs) under the Erasmus+ framework. Each BIP combines online collaborative learning with a short-term physical mobility component (5–10 days) at the coordinating university, involving students […]
From Design to Action: PATH EMDM Project Concludes with Launch of Transdisciplinary PATH Network
Since October 2024, the international PATH project team has been designing a Transdisciplinary Master’s programme in Planetary Health with the support of an Erasmus Mundus Design Measures grant. On 26–27 November 2025, representatives of the project partners – ELTE (coordinator), ÅAU, UB, JMU, and TCD – along with interested students and stakeholders, gathered in the […]
Recognition of learning: Awarding digital credentials
In CHARM-EU, we have gained experiences with issuing digital credentials to professional learners. The digital credentials serve to recognize, validate and reward professional development activities. A digital credential represents a digital certificate verifying and listing the skills gained during an educational activity. Credentials (or badges) can be used to show lifelong learning achievements and shared […]
Joint curriculum design: a hackathon template
CHARM-EU has gained a lot of experience in joint curriculum design for the MSc programme Global Challenges for Sustainability. One of the effective approaches for joint design was an annual ‘hackathon.’ In this Blended Intensive Programme, teaching staff from all partner universities to work on module design, join professional development activities and become an international […]
Effective feedback: a workshop template
In the joint MSc programme Global Challenges for Sustainability high quality of feedback towards students is an important endeavor. This is important for our programmatic assessment approach, but also to enhance student-centered learning. Figure 1. Effective feedback according to Hattie and Timperley (2007)
Challenge-based learning: a workshop template
In the joint MSc programme Global Challenges for Sustainability challenge-based learning is one of the core educational principles. It is a student-centred approach that emphasizes critical thinking, real-world problem solving and active engagement. Figure 1. Characteristics of Challenge-Based Learning. Source: Gallagher and Savage (2020).