Source: Jennifer Ehrhardt / Arbeitsstelle Holocaustliteratur

Bridge Formats

Bridge Formats are the ways EUPeace connects the university with the society around it. Through public dialogues, joint work with public authorities and community-engaged courses, they turn societal questions into collaboration and learning across all nine partner universities.

Bridge Formats are the ways EUPeace connects the university with the society around it — turning societal questions into dialogue, dialogue into collaboration, and collaboration into learning.

Across the Alliance, universities and their communities face the same underlying challenge: expertise and lived experience too often sit on opposite sides of the campus gate. Bridge Formats exist to close that gap. Developed within the EUPeace Living Peace Lab and guided by our Societal Dialogue Groups, they create structured, repeatable occasions for academics, students, public authorities, civil society and business to work on shared problems.

There are three of them, and they are designed to feed into one another. A dialogue can surface a challenge that becomes a Living Lab project; a project can generate a Joint Activity with a municipality; and both can become the setting in which students learn. That connection — rather than the individual event — is what makes the format durable.

The three Bridge Formats

Bridge Dialogue Formats

Open, facilitated encounters on a specific societal issue, deliberately held in formats and venues that invite people who would not normally come to a university seminar.

Joint Activities with Public Administrations

Sustained collaboration with municipalities, regional bodies and national authorities on questions of local and regional relevance — co-designed and co-delivered.