Capstone projects – Master’s in Global Challenges for Sustainability – 4th Edition 2024 – 2026
The capstone phase is designed to build on students’ knowledge, skills, and prior learning gained during the previous modules of the Master’s programme. Students will, in collaboration with extra-academic actors, investigate and evaluate a complex societal challenge from a variety of intercultural and transdisciplinary perspectives. They will cooperatively work on the challenge in teams of […]
CHARM-EU Annual Conference 2025 Poster Proceedings
The CHARM-EU Annual Conference was held on the 12th of November 2025 in Utrecht University. As part of the conference, a poster session was held related to the theme “Boosting European Competitiveness: European University Alliances as Catalysts for Innovation and Sustainability in Higher Education”. A broad view of European competitiveness was posed, and a diversity […]
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 […]
Guidelines for the CHARM-EU Virtual Learning Environment
December 2023 This 2-pager is a quick start to explain the connection between the three main elements of the CHARM-EU Virtual Learning Environment: It explains how the three elements relate to each other and what their respective purpose is, plus it gives good practice tips on how to work with the different elements.
High-level IT architecture for CHARM-EU
December 2024 This deliverable presents the results of two years of work on mapping the current IT-set up in CHARM and discussing our joint future vision with the main stakeholder groups. It describes how we applied the Higher Education Reference Model (HERM) to generate a shared understanding of the IT support of our CHARM Master’s […]
Structural Collaboration with other alliances on digitalisation and IT strategy
December 2024 This deliverable lists the efforts that the CHARM-EU IT team has made in the years 2023 and 2024 to connect with other stakeholders. The goal was to organize meetings/events with other alliances for sharing good practices in relation to digitalization. This resource describes how this has been done on four different levels: The […]
Staff development in higher education interinstitutional collaborations: An exploratory literature review
A research collaboration focusing on inter-institutional professional development, emerging from the work of WP3 is available open access wtihin “Innovations in Education and Teaching International”. Read more below: Interinstitutional collaborations are strategic drivers for higher education institutions (HEIs). Collaborations can initiate research partnerships, develop teaching innovations (e.g. joint degrees in supranational projects such as the […]
Transnational and Intercultural Learning ToolkitPart I: module design and mobility scheme development
This document presents an explanation of the transnational and intercultural dimension of the teaching and learning processes under development within the CHARM-EU Alliance as well as an introduction to a variety of tools and guidelines for integrating a transnational and intercultural dimension into the CHARM-EU curricula.
First steps towards an innovative governance and management model for a new type of alliance
This report aims at providing innovative ideas and lessons learned on how strategic alliances respond to the challenges of governance in a diverse and multicentric environment. The benchmark leads to identify 6 key recommendations to inform the preparation of CHARM-EU’s future governance and management model. In the field of higher education, research and innovation, the […]