Challenge-Based Workshop at START Research Festival (TCD)
A fun way to increase awareness of CHARM-EU This activity has a triple aim: to give more visibility to CHARM-EU at Trinity in a creative format, to demonstrate challenge-based learning in action as well as to introduce and promote the concept of European University Alliances in general. Keywords: creative, challenge-based, workshop, awareness raising CHARM-EU principles: […]
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. Challenge-Based Learning (CBL) is widely recognised as an innovative pedagogical approach for situating learning and fostering a wide range of student competencies, yet it can be time-intensive to design and often difficult to explain to those unfamiliar with it. To […]
Blended Intensive Programs (BIPs)
A short course or training, taking place online and on location at a European partner institution. Blended Intensive Programs (BIPs) combine virtual collaboration with a short-term mobility. Participants work together online before physically coming together at one of the involved partner institutions to complete their product(s), projects, or learning goals together on location. Alternatively, the online part might be also during or after the physical […]
Doctoral Mobility
Advancing research and collaboration across HEIs The doctoral mobility initiatives within CHARM-EU aim to enhance the academic and professional development of doctoral researchers by promoting cross-border collaboration and international research exchange. Doctoral candidates benefit from expanded research skills, increased networking opportunities and enhanced language abilities, while universities gain greater visibility and reputation through international cooperation. […]
Micro-credentials and mobility: enhancing international learning
Micro-credentials are an emerging educational innovation designed to certify short learning experiences with ECTS credits or another type of credential, such as a digital badge (e.g. EDUbadge) and are often focused on professional and transversal skills. Target groups can include Master’s, Bachelor’s or PhD students, university staff members, or lifelong learners from outside the organisation who […]
Semester mobility
Expanding academic and cultural horizons across CHARM-EU universities. Semester mobility is a key initiative within the CHARM-EU Mobility Network, designed to foster international collaboration and enhance academic experiences. By allowing students to spend a term or a full academic year at a partner university, this initiative strengthens institutional ties, enriches classroom discussions, and broadens students’ […]
Challenge-based Learning (CBL) Teachers’ Workshop (UM)
An event to support teaching staff in implementing CBL in their teaching practices The major aim of this activity, implemented in collaboration with a local partner (l’Institut Agro Montpellier) is to provide interested UM teaching staff with practical tools for the implementation of CBL – as core principle of CHARM-EU – in teaching programmes. It […]
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 […]
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 workshops) for assembling bottom-up, SDG-aligned, gender-balanced research teams grounded in RRI and Open Science.
Programmatic assessment: a workshop template
In the joint MSc programme Global Challenges for Sustainability the concept of programmatic assessment is applied. The main focus in this approach is the student’s learning. Instead of the ‘jumping through summative assessment hoops’, assessments should promote learning. To get an overview on programmatic assessment, see this video.