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More than a hundred participants met together for the first time last week in an online kick-off event for the ECIU University spring semester challenges.

The ECIU Ph.D. network on the Role of Universities in Innovation and Regional development is having its end webinar on 25 February 2021 from 11.00-13.00.

Over 300 students have signed up for more than 30 ECIU University challenges on offer in this spring semester round. Now it’s time to bring the challenge teams together and confront the real-world questions that affect us all.

‍On 14 January 2021, students from the ECIU member universities came together to kick-start the ECIU University Student Agora: an environment where students are at the heart of university not only as learners, but also as active co-creators

The Kampusareena building on the Hervanta campus of the Tampere Universities community has been awarded for its merits in sustainable development.

A new network convenes nearly 150 researchers from all over Norway. The goal is to connect researchers and render visible the innovation efforts in the public sector.

ECIU University places the challenge-based approach at the centre of its pedagogics, research and innovation. Linköping University, hosted the very first European Society Quest Event yesterday.

The ECIU University is not shy in taking a novel approach to its board. Not only board members of all the member universities call the shots, seven so-called external, societal stakeholders also take up a pivotal role on the board.

Register for the ECIU CHEPS Workshop: How can innovative universities foster a long-term relationship for the benefit of the Community? Reflecting on a TEFCE pilot study at an ECIU member university, 28 April 14.00-16.00 (via Zoom).

This new issue of the ECIU University magazine showcases several activities of ECIU University and the opportunities to engage with the European University.

On March 5th 25 teachers from 12 universities of the ECIU University network joined the kick-off meeting for building a community of practice.

DCU has launched a free online course aimed at educators and employers interested in learning more about micro-credentials and to challenge traditional mindsets of higher education. Designed by DCU in partnership with ECIU University.

Call for papers: IEE TEMS conference „Leading Digital Transformation in Business and Society“ to be held in Kaunas University of Technology (KTU), Lithuania, August 24 – 27, 2021.

On the first week of February, 2021 the new project of the European Union's research and innovation funding program Horizon 2020 (H2020) "ECIU University Research Institute for Smart European Regions" (SMART-ER) was launched.

At the ECIU University Citizen Science Consultation event in December 2020, over 80 participants from across the ECIU alliance connected and shared their views on the topic of citizen science.

The ECIU University invites you to our online Citizen Science consultation on 2 December 2020, 1.30-3pm Brussels Time.

The University of Trento and other universities discussed the different applications of challenge-based learning as an innovative learning methodology as partners of ECIU University.

‍ECIU University member institutions contacted their education ministries and quality assurance to share lessons from the early efforts in piloting with micro-credentials within ECIU University.

‍The landscape of higher education is changing. This requires a different kind of university. Victor van der Chijs will stop as president of the ECIU. A retrospective - and an outlook.

Màrius Martínez, Vice Rector for International Relations at the UAB, will take over from Victor van der Chijs (University of Twente), who has been president of the ECIU since 2017