🎓💻 Format: Different formats, but mostly hybrid. Check the programme for more details.
🌍 Language: English
Are you a student interested in democracy at universities? Don’t miss out on CHARM-EU European Skills Training Day 2026, focused on Digital Literacy, Soft Skills, Problem Solving and Student Voices.
What can you expect
🌍 Connect with students from across Europe and expand your international network.
🗣️ Strengthen your communication, negotiation, and oral skills with the “Public Speaking” training.
💻 Develop digital skills and learn how to navigate information ecosystems in the age of AI with the “Digital Literacy: Don’t get played!” training.
🤝 Improve your intercultural competencies with the “Interculturality and Mobility” training.
💡 Explore creative problem-solving techniques through interactive, hands-on activities with the “Creativity and Problem Solving” training.
🎓 Meet CHARM‑EU alumni and gain practical insights into international careers in sustainability and beyond.
🏛️ Take part in discussions on democracy, student participation, and active citizenship.
Whether you are interested in sustainability, innovation, employability, or simply meeting like-minded students from across Europe, the European Skills Training Day offers a unique opportunity to learn, collaborate, and shape the future together.
Join us!
⏰ Spots for the European Skills Training Day are limited! Register and select your skill-building session.👇👇
PROGRAMME
Thursday 26 november
Afternoon sessions
- 13:00 – 16:30: CHARM-EU Student Council meeting
- 16:45 – 17:45: Get to know each other
- 18:00 – 18:30: Social activity
Friday 27 november
Morning Sessions
- 9:15 – 9:45 | Welcome
- Raul Ramos, Vice-Rector for Internationalization Policy at the University of Barcelona
- European Commission representative
- CHARM-EU representative
- 9:45 – 11:15 | Panel session: Students’ views on Democracy at the University.
- 11:15 – 11:45 | Coffee Break
- 11:45 – 13:45 | Skill-Building Sessions (Choose a track):
Raising students’ intercultural awareness and competence and empowers them to successfully navigate intercultural encounters. Furthermore, it initiates reflecting on cultural habits and standards.
Format: 🎓💻 Hybrid
Open to:
- Students at the University of Barcelona (CHARM-EU Hybrid Classroom)
Expected Learning Outcomes
By the end of the session, students will be able to:
- Students have a basic understanding of the terms “culture” and “intercultural communication”.
- They are aware of their own cultural identity and can compare them to others’.
- They can reflect on cultural differences and know how to approach them in a value-adding way
- They can apply tools that help them navigate intercultural encounters successfully
Professor
Format: 🎓💻 Hybrid
Open to:
- Students at the University of Barcelona (Aula Magna)
- Students at the University of Bergen
- Students at Utrecht University
Expected Learning Outcomes
- explain how recommendation algorithms rank content, and take deliberate steps to curate their own feeds;
- tell apart the main forms of visual manipulation and verify an image or video with source-based methods and free tools;
- recognise emotional cues, narrative frames, common fallacies and propaganda techniques in everyday posts;
- reflect on their own susceptibility to manipulation;
- use three habits: pause before sharing, check the source rather than the pixels, and curate their feed on purpose.
Professor
Why do some talks stay with us while others are forgotten as soon as the slides change? This workshop explores what makes an audience listen: how we stand, how we sound and how we shape our message. Beyond the theory, it is a hands-on session: students deliver short pitches and receive structured feedback from their peers.
Format: 📍 Onsite at the University of Barcelona only.
Expected Learning Outcomes
By the end of the session, students will be able to:
- understand the core principles of rhetoric and apply them to oral communication;
- project credibility and confidence through posture, gestures, gaze and voice;
- connect with the audience: open strongly, tell stories and avoid fillers;
- structure a short, simple message for a specific audience;
- deliver a 2–3 minute pitch and give and receive constructive feedback.
Professor
Introducing tools and techniques to approach problem-solving creatively, encouraging the generation of novel solutions while maintaining a focus on innovation, results and value.
Format: 🌐 Online
Open to students from all CHARM-EU partner universities.
Expected Learning Outcomes
- define creativity and innovation and explain the relationship between them.
- apply fundamental principles underlying creative thinking as a process for problem-solving;
- reflect on how you could drive creativity and creative thinking in your own individual context.
Professor
Afternoon sessions
- 13:45 – 14:45 | Lunch box
- 14:45 – 15:00 | Meet CHARM-EU: Introduction to CHARM-EU and collaborative student opportunities.
- 15:00 – 16:45 | Employability & Networking with CHARM-EU alumni | Interactive session led by Orla O’Dwyer, Career Development Consultant at Trinity College Dublin (TCD). Discover practical strategies to translate your academic experience and skills into meaningful career pathways in international environments.
- 16:45 – 17:30 | Cultural activity with ESN UB
- 17:30 – 19:00 | Cocktail Reception
OBJECTIVES
This training initiative is structured to foster active European citizenship, democratic participation, and digital resilience among higher education students. Key objectives include:
- Democracy at the University: Empowering students to critically engage with democratic processes at their universities.
- Boosting Digital Capabilities: Cultivating practical digital literacy, leveraging digital tools for civic participation, and navigating information ecosystems safely.
- Fostering Intercultural Skills: Learn intercultural competences.
- Improving Oral Skills: Strengthening communication, public speaking, negotiation.
- Employability exchange between alumni and students: Providing a practical session, with CHARM-EU alumni, to share tips and about how to start your career in the sustainability fields.