Audience: University staff

CHARM-EU Annual Conference 2026

14 October 2026 @ All day – In an era of accelerating geopolitical, technological, and environmental crisis, what is the anchor that prevents our societies from drifting apart? This question lies at the heart of the CHARM-EU Annual Conference 2026. As we face disruptions that test our social fabric, we recognize that true resilience depends on foundational values—democracy, trust, and inclusion. These […]

Cooperation with China: Developing Competences and Structures in European Higher Education

28 September 2026 – 29 September 2026 @ All day – 28–29 September 2026 University of Würzburg, Germany Register Now Scientific cooperation between European universities and partners in the People’s Republic of China continues to play an important role across disciplines. At the same time, academic collaboration increasingly unfolds within a complex geopolitical and regulatory environment. Universities are expected to navigate evolving policy frameworks, heightened public […]

Staff Training for CHARM-EU Outgoing Coordinators

24 June 2026 – 25 June 2026 @ All day – The team of the CHARM-EU work package “Mobility” invites you to participate in a 2-day staff training for Outgoing Coordinators or Student Advisors for Erasmus mobility. The aim of this staff training is to increase the knowledge about our partner institutions in the alliance and their offers for our students, to provide you with more […]

CHARM-EU Hackthon 2026

22 June 2026 – 25 June 2026 @ All day – For the CHARM-EU Master’s programme Global Challenges for Sustainability we organise an annual hackathon. The broad aims of this hackathon for teaching staff are: professional development and onboarding for (new) teaching staff, networking and team building between teaching staff of the various partner universities of the alliance, curriculum design of the MSc programme through educational […]

Hybrid Active Learning Classrooms for inter-institutional teaching

CHARM-EU is an early adopter of the concept of teaching and learning in hybrid classrooms. The CHARM-EU Master Programme ‘Global Challenges in Sustainability’ started in September 2021. Each of the participating institutions set up at least one hybrid classroom which is suitable for joint teaching and learning in the CHARM Master Programme. Since then, the […]

Local sign in for alliance collaboration in a virtual learning environment

The IT team of CHARM-EU has invested a lot of efforts into the design of an IT infrastructure that can support a Joint Programme. The blueprint for our IT architecture explains how we want to approach the provision of IT services in a ‘best of breed’ approach. In the winter of 2025/2026, we have taken […]

Open Call for Posters | CHARM-EU Annual Conference 2026

An illustrated poster with a starry pink-to-blue gradient background announcing a "Call for Posters" for the CHARM-EU Annual Conference 2026. The text on the left reads: "European Universities Alliances, Democratic Values, and Societal Resilience" "CHARM-EU Annual Conference 2026" "14th October 2026" "Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland" The center features stylized illustrations of a researcher holding a test tube, a student with a backpack, a yellow clock tower, and a flowing blue-and-white ribbon with yellow stars.

Have you developed, researched, implemented or benefited from an initiative that has strengthened  democratic values and societal resilience? Share your experience at the CHARM-EU Annual Conference. We are inviting poster submissions for the CHARM-EU Annual Conference “European Universities Alliances, Democratic Values, and Societal Resilience: Building Sustainable Welfare Societies”. The poster presentation session offers you an opportunity to share your ideas and gather feedback from CHARM-EU conference participants.  We are taking a broad view of  democratic values and societal resilience and welcome […]

CHARM-ED: Using Small-Scale Funding to Support Collaborative Educational Innovation

A diverse group of five people sits around a wooden conference table in a bright, white room, engaged in a collaborative meeting. A woman with glasses and a green sweater gestures while speaking, holding a reusable coffee cup. To her right, a young woman with curly hair and a blue snowflake sweater types on a laptop covered in colorful stickers. In the foreground, hands are visible holding a pen over yellow sticky notes and blank paper, alongside a smartphone and pens. Everyone is wearing blue lanyards, suggesting a professional or academic workshop setting.

The CHARM-ED Funding Call is an initiative that incentivises collaborative educational innovation projects across the alliance. It provides small-scale seed funding for academic and professional staff to collaboratively develop innovative educational activities aligned with CHARM-EU educational principles. The approach enables institutions and alliances to: While originally designed to support inter-institutional collaboration across the CHARM-EU Alliance, […]

#FacesofCHARMEU: Weaving Connections Across the Alliance with Pia Le Grand

A graphic for the #FacesOfCHARMEU series featuring a circular portrait of Pia Le Grand against a solid blue background. She is a woman with blonde hair and glasses, smiling while wearing a patterned light-colored top and a lanyard, standing in front of a CHARM-EU banner. To the right of the portrait, the white text reads "Pia Le Grand" followed by "#FacesOfCHARMEU", with the multi-colored CHARM-EU alliance logo located in the top right corner.

Today, we sit down with Pia Le Grand, the CHARM-EU Manager at Åbo Akademi University (ÅAU) in Finland. Pia shares her journey from the beginning of ÅAU’s integration into the Alliance to her creative approach to internal communication. 🌍 Pia Le Grand – Åbo Akademi University Role: CHARM-EU Manager at Åbo Akademi University Could you […]