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 […]
Effective feedback: a workshop template
In the joint MSc programme Global Challenges for Sustainability high quality of feedback towards students is an important endeavor. This is important for our programmatic assessment approach, but also to enhance student-centered learning. Figure 1. Effective feedback according to Hattie and Timperley (2007)
Challenge-based learning: a workshop template
In the joint MSc programme Global Challenges for Sustainability challenge-based learning is one of the core educational principles. It is a student-centred approach that emphasizes critical thinking, real-world problem solving and active engagement. Figure 1. Characteristics of Challenge-Based Learning. Source: Gallagher and Savage (2020).
Transnational Online Learning (TOL) campaign
Targeted internal dissemination of a major CHARM-EU initiative. The TOL initiative is one of CHARM-EU’s major interinstitutional educational activities. It allows students access to courses beyond those available at their home institution, offering credits and international learning experiences by studying with peers from other countries, backgrounds and disciplines. The aim of the internal dissemination campaign […]
CHARM-EU Open Science Training (ELTE)
Building an Open Science ecosystem in CHARM-EU context and beyond. Aligned with one of the CHARM-EU principles, the goal of this activity is to raise awareness of the importance of Open Science (OS), offer tailored skill trainings for all areas of OS (including digital technologies for OS), encourage participants to join the local OS community, […]