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Are you an academic or researcher at one of the CHARM-EU partner universities? You are in the right place!

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Training Offerings

🎓Want to learn? Check out our latest training offerings.

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CHARM-ED projects

The CHARM-EU Educational Innovation (CHARM-ED) projects are CHARM-EU funded initiatives set to develop, enhance, and revolutionize higher education and lifelong learning activities across CHARM-EU partner universities.

CHARM-ED Call and past projects

Mobility opportunities

🌍Looking for mobility? Discover exchange and mobility opportunities. Mobility across CHARM‑EU partner universities offers a unique opportunity for administrative, technical, and academic staff to connect, learn, and collaborate with other CHARM-EU partner universities.

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Service Portfolio

🚀Need new tools? Browse our Service Portfolio for best practices to enhance your work.

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ENHANCE UNIVERSITY SERVICES WITH CHARM-EU EXPERIENCES

Discover a unique collection of inspiring CHARM-EU case studies and get support in adapting CHARM-EU solutions to your services.

Under the tabs, you can find various examples of how CHARM-EU member universities applied the innovations of the Alliance ‘at home’.

We added supporting documents and guides to each case study to help you adapting CHARM-EU solutions. A Support Request Form is also included for you to contact CHARM-EU teams that can offer further support in your work.

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Would you like to implement challenge based learning or adopt a course from partner university??

Check our experiences below:

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

The CHARM-ED Funding Call is an initiative that incentivises collaborative educational innovation projects across the...

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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...

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Recognition of learning: Awarding digital credentials

In CHARM-EU, we have gained experiences with issuing digital credentials to professional learners. The digital...

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Joint curriculum design: a hackathon template

CHARM-EU has gained a lot of experience in joint curriculum design for the MSc programme...

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Effective feedback: a workshop template

In the joint MSc programme Global Challenges for Sustainability high quality of feedback towards students...

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Challenge-based learning: a workshop template

In the joint MSc programme Global Challenges for Sustainability challenge-based learning is one of the...

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Programmatic assessment: a workshop template

In the joint MSc programme Global Challenges for Sustainability the concept of programmatic assessment is...

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Applying challenge-based learning in existing courses in Barcelona, Montpellier and Budapest

Integrating Challenge-Based Learning (CBL) into existing courses transforms traditional teaching methods by engaging students with...

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ELTE adapting a course from Utrecht University

In 2023, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) and Utrecht University (UU) started to plan a new...

Would you like to browse more innovative CHARM solutions?

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Challenge-Based Learning (CBL) for Everyone: CHARM-EU CBL Card Game

Get familiar with Challenge-based Learning in an accessible and engaging manner through an interactive game....

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CHARM-EU Internal Dissemination Portfolio

The aim of the CHARM-EU Internal Dissemination Portfolio is to provide a comprehensive collection of...

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Onboarding: Introducing CHARM-EU for New-comers

When first hearing about CHARM-EU, the activities of the Alliance might seem complex and very...

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Making CHARM-EU accessible to all bringing the Alliance to a table at HRW

In 2023, following a strategy workshop, Ruhr West University of Applied Sciences (HRW) started a...

Would you like to browse more CHARM-EU mobility solutions?

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Would you like to browse more CHARM-EU research & Innovation exemplars?

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Creating Multidisciplinary Research Networks to Tackle Societal Challenges

Explore CHARM-EU’s practical toolset (from the Common Science Agenda methodology to targeted matchmaking and co-creation...

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ClimEX-PE Project: A collaborative effort for buffering hydroclimatic extremes within CHARM-EU

In 2024, the ClimEx-PE project was launched as a collaborative effort among the partner universities of the...

Would you like to disseminate CHARM-EU values and principles internally?

Check our experiences below:

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CHARMopoly

A playful dissemination tool for exploring CHARM-EU. CHARMopoly interactively helps players understand the structures, terminology,...

CHARM-ON Monthly episodes on CHARM-EU innovative practices

CHARM ON: Bringing Innovation into Practice

CHARM-EU’s regular online knowledge-sharing session. CHARM ON was designed to share and explore CHARM-EU’s innovative...

Summer Doctoral School

CHARM‑EU Doctoral Researcher Summer School

Developing transdisciplinary practice with doctoral researchers. The activity, implemented in 2025, aimed at enabling doctoral...

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Transnational Online Learning (TOL) campaign

Targeted internal dissemination of a major CHARM-EU initiative. The TOL initiative is one of CHARM-EU’s...

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CHARM-EU Open Science Training (ELTE)

Building an Open Science ecosystem in CHARM-EU context and beyond. Aligned with one of the...

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My CHARMobility Experience Reports

Short written testimonials related to staff mobilities. The Reports aim at showcasing mobility-related opportunities for...

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Montpellier Cross Thematic Mobility (UM)

A Blended Intensive Programme within the CHARM-EU Master’s. The major aim of this activity is...

Professor and students at the CHARM-EU hybrid classroom in Utrecht Unviersity

CHARM-EU Hybrid Active Learning Classroom Experience (JMU)

Showcasing CHARM-EU teaching in hybrid settings. The goal of this activity is to give a...

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Heads of Departments Meeting (UB)

An annual in-person meeting to reinforce the relationship of CHARM-EU with UB faculties. This regular...

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Hackathon for the CHARM-EU Master’s Global Challenges for Sustainability

Innovative improvements for the CHARM-EU Master’s Programme. The major aim of the hackathon was to...

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Grand Finale

A major CHARM-EU event to commemorate the conclusion of a cohort in the CHARM-EU Master’s....

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European Engineering Schools Days (UM)

Facilitating thematized pedagogical and research collaboration within CHARM-EU. The event had a triple aim: Keywords:...

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Trainings and Professional Development Sessions on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Hosted by the CHARM-EU Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Office. In order to mainstream diversity, equity...

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CHARM-EU Roadshow: Targeted CHARM-EU introductory sessions

Info sessions at faculties and administrative departments to introduce CHARM-EU membership. This activity is aimed...

CHARM-EU R&I Days: Water Global Challenges

CHARM-EU R&I Days 1st Edition

Building multidisciplinary research proposals: a co-creation workshop to address the Global Water Challenges. The major...

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CHARM-EU Cultural Festival

A major CHARM-EU event to celebrate cultural diversity. The CHARM-EU Cultural Festival was designed to...

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CHARM-EU Annual Conference

A major CHARM-EU knowledge-sharing and networking event. The main goal of this major event is...

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CHARM-EU, WTF*? Welcome to the Future (UB)

Student-led information session at UB addressed at students and faculty. The primary goal of this...

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CHARM-EU workshop on Programmatic assessment & Quality feedback (UU)

A comprehensive training on programmatic assessment The aim of this activity is to provide information...

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CHARM-EU WebEx Community (HRW)

An online community used to disseminate CHARM-EU information Integrated in WebEx Teams, the standard video...

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CHARM-EU Onboarding Game (UU)

A fun activity to bring CHARM-EU closer to students and staff The goal of this...

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CHARM-EU Factsheet (UU)

An informative factsheet to get the word out about CHARM-EU among UU staff The goal...

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CHARM-EU Event Reports

Written news items on major CHARM-EU events published at partner universities’ websites By providing and...

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Challenge-Based Workshop at START Research Festival (TCD)

A fun way to increase awareness of CHARM-EU This activity has a triple aim: to...

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Challenge-based Learning (CBL) Teachers’ Workshop (UM)

An event to support teaching staff in implementing CBL in their teaching practices The major...

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CHARM-EU Cafeteria Table (HRW)

A monthly informal cafeteria event to spread CHARM-EU awareness This activity aims to organically attract...

Research and Innovation

🔎 Want to drive meaningful change? Access research insights, collaborative networks, and innovative frameworks designed to elevate your academic and creative discoveries.

CHARM-EU is redefining how we create and share knowledge by focusing on collaborative, impactful research that bridges the gap between academia and society. 

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Open Science

In the image, a young man with a slight beard wearing a long white t-shirt and light blue glasses looks at a woman with very long brown hair from the left side of the photo. Behind them, there is another man on the left side of the photo, and in the background, further back and blurred, you can see people in the audience looking at them, including a woman dressed in purple and a light blue dress. Between them, there is a large paper where there are charts with several circles: starting from the left up, you can see a circle labeled "WHO" and under it "what are the problems? what are the opportunities?". Next to that one, slightly shifted up, another circle "WHY?" with under it "what are the priorities?". In the bottom left, slightly shifted right from the first one, a circle "WHERE" and under it "where to start?". Above this one, slightly shifted to the right, a circle "WHAT NEXT?". In the bottom left, a circle with unreadable text. They seem to be talking, sharing ideas for the charts. Next to the large paper, there are colored pens and one black pen.

Citizen Science

The image shows a group of three people, two men, and one woman, sitting around a table with large sheets of paper, ready for work. They look at each other, presumably discussing the project. On the table, you can also see colored pens, a coffee mug, smartphones, and a water bottle. In the background, there is a window, and to the left, there is a cabinet with a small whiteboard above it.

Transdisciplinary Research

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Researchers Hub

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Joint Research Support

CHARM-EU Inter-Institutional Communities

🤝Looking for community?Explore our institutional communities and start connecting today.

CHARM-EU inter-institutional Communities

We are pleased to announce the establishment of the following Inter-Institutional Working Groups, bringing together staff and students from across the Alliance to foster knowledge building and sharing. If you are a student or a staff member in one of CHARM-EU universities do not hesitate to participate!
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Resources for you

💡Want to work smarter? Browse our dedicated staff resources to find expert toolkits, templates, and frameworks designed to boost your day-to-day projects.

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CHARM-EU Guide Pitch

Created by CHARM-Eight – WorkPackage 15 – July 2026 This practical guide is designed to...

2023 CHARM-EU Annual Conference

The 2023 CHARM-EU Annual Conference “Alliances for Society” was held on the 7th of November...

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Roadmap for the integration of international strategic academic partners

December 2025 This roadmap aims to translate the strategic orientations defined in the CHARM-EU External...

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Opportunities and calls

👀 Looking for your next challenge? Find current calls and opportunities to collaborate, innovate, and grow.

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Call for Abstracts | The Neoliberal University as a Research Factory: Academia in an Age of Metrics, Bureaucratisation and Institutional Pressure
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Share Your Recipe, Share Your Story: Contribute to CHARM-EAT! 
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Visiting Fellows – Research Stay in Montpellier
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Inspiring stories

✨Looking for inspiration? Read real stories, testimonials, and news from your peers across CHARM-EU to see how they are making the most of CHARM-EU.

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Triassic Inferno: Fires raged across Europe for thousands of years during past global warming
Photo credit: Cecile Poupart

EU-CONEXUS and CHARM-EU Become the First European University Alliances to deliver programmes carrying a Joint European Degree Label 
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CHARM-EU secures €7 million from the European Commission to continue its impact in European Education
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