Within the CHARM-EU Masters’ in Global Challenges for Sustainability, a cross-thematic Blended Intensive Programme (BIP) is implemented to allow students to work on real sustainability challenges with academic supervisors and external stakeholders over a two-week period. This challenge-based BIP applies the 10 CHARM-EU educational principles.
This guidebook aims to provide all necessary information and recommendations for implementing this type of pedagogical activity to all partner universities within the CHARM-EU alliance. It also shares insights with other higher education institutions (HEIs) interested in adopting a challenge-based BIP to enhance their teaching and learning activities.
The guidebook is based on experiences and feedback from two editions of the Montpellier Cross-thematic Mobility (MoXMo) weeks in 2023 and 2024. At the end of the document, we used the 2024 version as an example to summarize all necessary activities into checklists to facilitate the planning and execution of the BIP.
