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 […]

CHARM-EU Student Reflections at the UN Regional Academy

The RAUN programme combines expert-led lectures, interactive workshops, and practical hands-on research in cooperation with the UN and international organisations, structured around two three-day in-person conferences (the 2024/2025 edition took place in Barcelona and at the UN Headquarters in Vienna) and several online sessions between October and May. Participation in the program is voluntary and […]

Strengthening the Link Between Research and Education

Training the next generation of researchers by immersing them in research challenges that closely reflect the needs of patients—this is the pedagogical and scientific ambition of the elective module entitled “Tackling Health Challenges in Internationally Linked Research Hubs”, or simply “Research Hubs”. Entirely delivered in English, the module was co-designed by the University of Montpellier […]

CHARM-EU Cultural Festival

A major CHARM-EU event to celebrate cultural diversity. The CHARM-EU Cultural Festival was designed to celebrate cultural diversity through a range of challenge- and team-based, playful activities. Its goal is to raise awareness of CHARM-EU amongst key target groups, to support community building and encourage cultural exchange following the principles of diversity, equity and inclusion. […]

CHARM-EU Annual Conference

A major CHARM-EU knowledge-sharing and networking event. The main goal of this major event is raising awareness of CHARM-EU amongst key targetgroups, knowledge-sharing around good practices, research and lessons learned as well as networking and community-building within and beyond the Alliance. Keywords: awareness raising, networking, knowledge sharing, best practices, inter-institutional engagement CHARM-EU principles: Transnational and […]

Great success of CHARM-EU Annual Conference: Top experts and an engaged community discussed the leading role of European University alliances

Held in Utrecht, the Netherlands, the CHARM-EU Annual Conference 2025 brought together key opinion leaders, European policymakers, university leaders, innovators, academic staff members and students to discuss how European University alliances could contribute to Europe’s leadership in professional skills development, talent attraction, mobility, internationalisation and regional development, among others. Through inspiring plenary sessions with top […]

ELTE former student awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature

László Krasznahorkai’s lifework has been a defining part of contemporary Hungarian and world literature. His prose continues the most noble traditions of Hungarian literature with its uique rich useage of the language, deep thoughts and universal topics, while also reaching an international audience. As expresssed by our member university: “It is a special honor for ELTE […]

How to build equality in community-engaged learning across Europe and Africa? Reflections from a CHARM-EU Master’s Capstone

A new article, “Community-Engaged Learning in a European Universities Alliance: Reflections on Equality and Reciprocity Across Europe and Africa,” has been published in the Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement. Written by authors involved in CHARM-EU’s Master’s in Global Challenges for Sustainability, in collaboration with the University of Pretoria , the experts examine how international community-engaged […]