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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.

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

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

‍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

The ECIU Presidium met Mariya Gabriel, EU Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth, on 12 March 2021.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Today, ECIU University presented its micro-credentials white paper at an online event with 300 participants from all over Europe and beyond. The high interest showed that the micro-credentials movement has momentum.

At this event, we will present our white paper on micro-credentials, and we look forward to learning about your views on this topic. The final programme will be published here early January.

‍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