Education in 4EU+

Collaboration in education is one of the central objectives of the 4EU+ European University Alliance. It has three essential features: to offer students at a 4EU+ university a genuinely European learning experience; to allow experimenting with, testing and advancing ways of learning and teaching that are innovative and future-oriented; to reflect the specific profile of the 4EU+ universities as public, comprehensive and knowledge-centred institutions.

The collaboration will be marked by a shared approach to higher education that 4EU+ will develop. For now, its main features are:

• challenge-based, addressing key challenges and problems that our societies are facing, often in an interdisciplinary way, and engaging with the public;

• student-centred, allowing and encouraging students to develop a personalised learning pathway, following their curiosity and questions and engaging in active learning;

• knowledge-centred, understanding learning as research and asking academics to integrate their research to their teaching;

• competence-oriented, cultivating a set of competences and skills that each 4EU+ student should be able to demonstrate

4EU+ will develop this approach and put in into practice by inviting collaborative projects from the community of academics at each 4EU+ university. The projects can vary in form: from workshops and other short-term intensive learning experiences to joint courses and modules to core curricula and joint study programmes. All of them should have in common to be daring and innovative.

Conditions

All projects have to involve at least three 4EU+ member universities and fall under one of the four 4EU+ Flagships.