Hybrid Active Learning Classrooms for inter-institutional teaching
CHARM-EU is an early adopter of the concept of teaching and learning in hybrid classrooms. The CHARM-EU Master Programme ‘Global Challenges in Sustainability’ started in September 2021. Each of the participating institutions set up at least one hybrid classroom which is suitable for joint teaching and learning in the CHARM Master Programme. Since then, the […]
Local sign in for alliance collaboration in a virtual learning environment
The IT team of CHARM-EU has invested a lot of efforts into the design of an IT infrastructure that can support a Joint Programme. The blueprint for our IT architecture explains how we want to approach the provision of IT services in a ‘best of breed’ approach. In the winter of 2025/2026, we have taken […]
CHARM-ED: Using Small-Scale Funding to Support Collaborative Educational Innovation
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, […]
CHARMopoly
A playful dissemination tool for exploring CHARM-EU. CHARMopoly interactively helps players understand the structures, terminology, opportunities, and challenges of the CHARM-EU Alliance while also functioning as a dissemination and visibility tool. Through a playful, competitive format, players move across an Alliance-themed Monopoly board and encounter scenarios based on CHARM-EU vocabulary, programmes, and priorities. The game […]
CHARM ON: Bringing Innovation into Practice
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’ […]
CHARM-ÅA Insider
Sharing relevant CHARM-EU updates and highlights with the ÅAU community. The goal of the CHARM-ÅA Insider is to highlight relevant news and updates from an ÅAU perspective to an internal audience with limited capacity to follow CHARM updates on various channels. It complements the CHARM-EU Staff Newsletter with local CHARM news. Published bi-monthly on the […]
CHARM‑EU Doctoral Researcher Summer School
Developing transdisciplinary practice with doctoral researchers. The activity, implemented in 2025, aimed at enabling doctoral researchers to co‑create transdisciplinary research proposals addressing real‑world sustainability challenges and encouraging autonomy, reflexivity and responsibility among “adult learners” working intensively on their own projects. It equipped participants with conceptual and practical tools for transdisciplinary research and provided them with […]
Mobile Geo-location Learning Experiences using the Peek App
Learn how CHARM-EU uses a mobile geo-location app for active learning with its students. Situated learning, one of the CHARM-EU educational principles, is where students learn through social interaction in authentic, realistic contexts. Walking through a city or field trip location and observing its culture, nature, and infrastructure can transform how students understand global challenges. […]
Recognition of learning: Awarding digital credentials
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 […]
Joint curriculum design: a hackathon template
CHARM-EU has gained a lot of experience in joint curriculum design for the MSc programme Global Challenges for Sustainability. One of the effective approaches for joint design was an annual ‘hackathon.’ In this Blended Intensive Programme, teaching staff from all partner universities to work on module design, join professional development activities and become an international […]