Resource content: Innovation

CHARM-EU Guide Pitch

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Created by CHARM-Eight – WorkPackage 15 – July 2026 This practical guide is designed to help entrepreneurs—including students, PhD candidates, and researchers across CHARM-EU Alliance universities—master the key elements of delivering a clear, complete, and impactful pitch. Combining core storytelling principles with essential communication techniques, the document outlines a step-by-step pitch structure—from creating a compelling […]

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, […]

Report on the establishment of CHARM-EU incubator hubs with a number of pilot activities

A laptop and a coffee cup on a table together with a printed deliverable from CHARM-EU

December 2025 Deliverable 15.1 sets out the conceptual foundation, baseline analysis, and initial pilots for the CHARM-EU Incubator Hub Network under Task 15.1. It aims to support CHARM-EIGHT’s objective of strengthening innovation and entrepreneurship capacity across the alliance through shared, cross-regional structures. The deliverable explains how the consortium developed a flexible and context-sensitive framework that […]

CHARM ON: Bringing Innovation into Practice

CHARM-ON Monthly episodes on CHARM-EU innovative practices

CHARM-EU’s regular online knowledge-sharing session. CHARM ON was designed to share and explore CHARM-EU’s innovative practices with academic and support staff from the partner universities and beyond and motivate those interested to dive deeper into CHARM-EU good practices in our Service Portfolio, and to participate in trainings and opportunities offered by the Alliance. The CHARM-ON sessions’ […]

Recognition of learning: Awarding digital credentials

EduBadge for CHARM-EU. The CHARM logo on top, then the text "Applying innovative approaches to assessment", and below that a lightbulb with two plants growing inside of it.

In CHARM-EU, we have gained experiences with issuing digital credentials to professional learners. The digital credentials serve to recognize, validate and reward professional development activities. A digital credential represents a digital certificate verifying and listing the skills gained during an educational activity.  Credentials (or badges) can be used to show lifelong learning achievements and shared […]

European Engineering Schools Days (UM)

Example of result of the Design Thinking approach in the form of a mock-up with Lego and sticky notes

Facilitating thematized pedagogical and research collaboration within CHARM-EU. The event had a triple aim: Keywords: networking, engineering schools, inter-institutional cooperation, joint programmes CHARM-EU principles: Transdisciplinarity, Transnational and intercultural learning DOWNLOAD OUR TWO-PAGER ON THE ACTIVITY HERE

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 […]

CHARM-EU Podcast

A central initiative to mainstream CHARM-EU actualities and boost engagement The primary goal of the CHARM-EU Paodcast is to increase awareness of CHARM-EU amongst key target groups, support recruitment of students to the CHARM-EU Master’s Programme, build relationship with external stakeholders as well as profile of CHARM-EU staff and students. Keywords: podcast, students, recruitment, actualities, […]

Micro-credentials Strategic Plan

The CHARM-EU micro-credentials strategic plan outlines the CHARM-EU approach to enhancinglifelong learning and employability within Europe through the implementation of micro-credentials.Recognizing the growing importance of micro-credentials as a means for skill development andprofessional growth, CHARM-EU aims to leverage its collective strengths across alliance institutionsto lead and innovate in this evolving educational landscape. This strategic plan […]

CHARM-EU Cafeteria Table (HRW)

A monthly informal cafeteria event to spread CHARM-EU awareness This activity aims to organically attract HRW staff and students to the CHARM-EU orbit. To achieve this, the Cafeteria Table endeavors to render visible the HRW’s involvement in the Alliance, celebrate its successes within CHARM-EU, and entice previously unaffiliated staff and students. Designed and implemented as […]