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 of poster presentations related to research, practitioner case studies, policy or procedure examples, collaborative initiatives, emerging ideas, or personal narratives on an initiative were welcomed.
Posters were required to align with at least some of these topics:
- Higher education institutions, alliances or external stakeholders contributing to general European competitiveness.
- Educational curricula supporting skills for key competitiveness areas (e.g. digital and green transitions).
- Research contributing to European societal or economic competitiveness.
- Micro-credentials or lifelong learning initiatives that enhance talent.
- Creating environments for innovation, entrepreneurship, and start-up support.
- Policies or practices that have impacted on competitiveness.
- Personal narratives on activities or challenges related to competitiveness.
- Increasing employability, boosting European careers, transdisciplinary collaboration, intercultural competencies, transversal skills, personal impact, DEI as an enabler.
- Open Science policies and practices enhancing competitiveness for Europe.
- Students and researchers’ mobility in European higher education area contributing to a competitive Europe.
These proceedings display the abstract for each of the 21 poster presentations.
A best poster award was presented to Anouk Ruijters, Bente Haukes, Galang Gibran & Grace Fratello-Hakim for their poster Land subsidence in Jakarta: a threat and a possibility based on a public vote.
Download the Proceedings here.
