Mobility and Education ZOne
The T4EU goal is to design challenge-based education, and enhance mobility and academic exchange
professional developement programme
The T4EU alliance will implement a professional development programme for non-academic staff. This virtual programme will consist of digital courses on the universities, higher education systems, regions, and national legal systems of the T4EU partner institutions and general intercultural awareness, developed by experts at the partner universities individually or together.
T4EU Professional Development Training
Webinars for Academic and Non-Academic Staff in June
T4EU Professional Development Training in Kaunas
Webinars for Academic and Non-Academic Staff in May
Open Dual Lecture
With the Open Dual Lecture series, the T4EU alliance will organise a public lecture series consisting of four lectures per term/semester rotating around the partner universities. The evening lectures will be held in an innovative joint format by either one academic staff member of the host university and one external entrepreneur or practitioner from another region of the T4E alliance, or by one entrepreneur or practitioner from the home region and an academic from one of the T4EU partner universities.
Open Dual Lecture in Katowice
You are invited to attend an Open Dual Lecture entitled “Wood pellets – the future of the energy market?”
Open Dual Lecture in Katowice
University of Silesia in Katowice is organizing Open Dual Lecture and is looking for one professional, stemming from the entrepreneurial environment
Conference for Innovative Teaching
T4EU will organise an annual conference to foster exchange between teaching staff and give visibility to the teachers who have contributed to the delivery of innovative teaching projects and to the activities of the Teaching Academy as a whole.
International T4EU Conference ‘PROF-SYNERGY’
This conference follows the tradition of the previous Transform4Europe conferences, which focused on innovative teaching and learning methods in higher education.
Innovation in education
The international conference “INNO-METHODS for Quality Curricula”
T4EU Teaching Award
The purpose of an Innovative Teaching Award is to identify, acknowledge and recognize innovative teaching practices and to provide opportunities not only for sharing and exchanging best examples, but also to encourage cooperation between the Higher Education Institutions of the Transform4Europe alliance.
- Educational Escape Room Monika Frania, PhD from the University of Silesia in Katowice
- Transforming Students’ Mindset for a Better Future Critical Thinking and the Digital Gender Divide María D. De-Juan-Vigaray, PhD and María Elena González Gascón from the University of Alicante, Spain
- Intensive Care Medicine and Pain Therapy Tobias Hüppe and Department of Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care Medicine and Pain Therapy from Saarland University, Germany
- Visible Interactive Speaker for International Best Learning Experience Prof. Marcel Lauterbach from Saarland University, Germany
1) Creation of Life Escape room
Dr. Evelina Bendoraitienė, Vytautas Magnus University
The good practice involves assigning a group homework task to students in a financial calculations course to create a life escape room. Working collaboratively, students design puzzles, challenges, and a narrative that incorporate course content and require the application of financial calculation skills. This hands-on approach enhances understanding, promotes critical thinking, teamwork, and creativity, and provides a practical context for learning.
2) ABC of Visual Thinking and Sketchnoting
Dr. Magdalena Christ, University of Silesia in Katowice
The classes aim to familiarize participants with the theories underlying visual thinking, as well as the representatives of sketchnoting and their work as inspiration for their development in this area. During the course, students acquire skills in creating visual notes as a form of organisation and presentation of thoughts, ideas, which can be used to improve the learning process and in various branches of professional life.
3) Digital entrepreneurship: Digital-enhanced and international teaching of digital entrepreneurship
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Benedikt Schnellbächer and Alexander Schöneseiffen, Saarland University
DIGEN-DIT is a digital-enhanced, international module. Students from all Transform4Europe and Ukrainian partner universities can participate due to its hybrid format, supported by digital tools (e.g. mentimeter). The course encompasses a lecture and a tutorial. The lecture provides students with digital entrepreneurship content from strategy to operational level. In the tutorial student teams develop a startup concept and present it in a pitch event. Lastly, students visit another T4E university to work on an entrepreneurship challenge.
4) Universal Game Design for Learning and Game Co-design for student-centered learning
Assoc. Prof. Giovanni Bacaro, University of Trieste
Novel educational technologies and methodologies that create enthusiasm among students and promote learner engagement are becoming instructional priorities across all disciplines of STEM. Game-Based Learning has established itself as a methodology that addresses students engagement at different levels (student-centered learning, constructivist approach, shared social experience, systems thinking and so on). A generalized Game Design Methodology (GDM), which includes the basic principles of the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework is here proposed. Each phase is designed to allow students and teaching staff to develop the game and assess its progress throughout the entire process.
T4EU Chair Programme
The T4EU alliance will install a T4EU Chair Programme for academic staff. The programme will enable professors to spend a residential period at another T4EU partner university for one semester primarily for the purpose of teaching.
T4EU Chair Programme – first call for applications
The Transform4Europe Chair Programme Initiative will contribute to an enhanced and more structured teaching staff mobility.
Chair Exchange – Winter Semester 2022/2023
The second run of the T4EU Chair Exchange competitive independent application and selection process has been completed successfully
Mobility Window
The T4EU Alliance is actively developing Mobility Windows: A Mobility Window is a designated period within a study program for international mobility, embedded in the curriculum and specifying when and for how long students can or must study abroad. T4EU aims to create optional mobility pathways with highly prescribed content by identifying equivalent modules and courses for students across institutions.
This initiative seeks to enhance student mobility by integrating international experiences directly into academic programs, enabling students to gain valuable cross-border experience during their studies.
To support this, the Alliance has developed guidelines and a step-by-step manual to assist programme coordinators and professors in designing and implementing a Mobility Window with partner institutions.
For more information, or if you would like to begin establishing a Mobility Window, please contact Adèle Robart, project coordinator at Saarland University:
- adele.robart@uni-saarland.de
- +49 (0)681 / 302-4773
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