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. […]
Doctoral Researcher Summer School 2026 Developing Transdisciplinary Practice to tackle complex challenges

Are you ready to expand your research horizons in a stimulating international environment? Do you want to experience teamwork in a transdisciplinary setting? Åbo Akademi University is hosting an interdisciplinary Summer School dedicated to doctoral researchers from all fields. You will develop transdisciplinary skills working on real-life challenges together with other doctoral researchers and stakeholders […]
Master’s in Global Challenges for Sustainability

About Do you want to make a real difference? You can be a force of positive, sustainable change for the future of our planet.The Master’s in Global Challenges for Sustainability is a unique international learning opportunity that will help you become a change-maker. You will work on real-life global challenges with national and international organisations […]
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 […]
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 […]
Transnational Online Learning (TOL) campaign

Targeted internal dissemination of a major CHARM-EU initiative. The TOL initiative is one of CHARM-EU’s major interinstitutional educational activities. It allows students access to courses beyond those available at their home institution, offering credits and international learning experiences by studying with peers from other countries, backgrounds and disciplines. The aim of the internal dissemination campaign […]
CHARM-EU Open Science Training (ELTE)

Building an Open Science ecosystem in CHARM-EU context and beyond. Aligned with one of the CHARM-EU principles, the goal of this activity is to raise awareness of the importance of Open Science (OS), offer tailored skill trainings for all areas of OS (including digital technologies for OS), encourage participants to join the local OS community, […]
Montpellier Cross Thematic Mobility (UM)

A Blended Intensive Programme within the CHARM-EU Master’s. The major aim of this activity is to concentrate the essence of the CHARM-EU Master’s in Global Challenges for Sustainability and provide students with an intensive hands-on international learning and mobility experience based on CHARM-EU principles and strategic themes. It brings together students, faculty, and local experts […]