EUPeace is offering a European Track to its students! The European Track is currently being tested in a pilot phase for the academic year 2025/2026: its concept, content and offers will be continuously developed and updated.
This is the lecturers’ information page for the European Track. Please click here for the students’ information page.
Empower the next generation of European citizens
The European Track (EUTrack) is one of our flagships. It’s a highly distinctive cross-Alliance certificate designed to educate our students as the engaged and informed European citizens and changemakers of tomorrow – with a strongly interdisciplinary focus on the European values of peace, justice, and inclusive societies. You can find our information page for EUPeace students here.
As a lecturer within the EUPeace Alliance, we’d love to invite you to help build our Track and shape the future of our Alliance.
EUTrack offers our students an array of opportunities:
- Flexibility: students can choose from a diverse and interdisciplinary range of courses offered across our Alliance of nine universities – whether in person or in virtual or hybrid format.
- Pan-European perspectives: students are able to develop a deeper understanding of European challenges and opportunities.
- Stackable credentials: students can study abroad at one of our partner universities — whether for a semester or a year abroad, or for a short-term “Blended Intensive Programme” (BIP) — and earn up to three certificates in recognition of the interdisciplinary knowledge and skills that they acquire.
- Career advantages: The Track’s interdisciplinary and international focus equips students with skills that will prove valuable on the European jobs market of tomorrow.
Whatever their course of study, and whatever career plans they have in mind, our goal is to equip EUPeace students to help build a democratic, just, and peaceful Europe – and world – that’s fit for the 21st century and beyond.
The Virtual European Exchange Programme (VEEP):
The Virtual European Exchange Programme (VEEP) is the EUPeace Alliance’s virtual exchange programme; and it serves as the infrastructure for all online and hybrid teaching and learning throughout the Alliance. As such, all virtual and hybrid learning units that are offered for the European Track are offered via VEEP; but VEEP also contains other courses (e.g. for Teacher Education) which are not (yet) offered for the European Track.
VEEP offers students the highly attractive possibility of mobility — of “trying out” one of the other EUPeace partners — from the comfort of their own home.
Why offer your course(s) for EUTrack and/or VEEP?
- Optimize your visibility: Your course will be highlighted within our central EUPeace Course Repository, attracting highly motivated students from right across the EUPeace network.
- Do numbers: The European Track is open to all nine universities in the Alliance, which can help bolster numbers and reinvigorate courses and programmes.
- Internationalise classrooms: Engage with diverse perspectives and foster discussions between students from different national, cultural and academic backgrounds — both in person and virtually, via the Virtual European Exchange Programme (VEEP).
- Help construct the EUPeace curriculum: Contribute your expertise to an ever-growing interdisciplinary curriculum focused on critical European – and global – themes and problems.
- Shape digital pedagogies: Help plot the virtual higher-educational landscapes of today and tomorrow – all within the context of both the EUTrack and VEEP.
- Support student success: Help our students develop intercultural skills; forge an ever more complex understanding of the crucial conditions for peace, justice and inclusive societies; and apply the knowledge they gain to real-world challenges: competences highly sought after in Europe’s fast-paced and ever-shifting jobs markets.
By joining us on the EUTrack, you’ll not only enhance your own teaching experience, you’ll also empower students to become active agents of change in a peaceful, just, and inclusive Europe.
You’ll find our student information page here; and you’ll find our lecturers’ information pack – which includes lots more information, including local EUPeace contact details – HERE.
How does it work?
Mobility and interculturality are at the core of the European Track: we want to encourage our students to explore new places, countries, cultures, styles of teaching and learning, and ways of looking, seeing, and thinking. Here are the key facts:
- The Track comprises three levels, each of which consists of 6 ECTS points.
- After completion of a European Track course, the ECTS points assigned to that course count towards the Track.
- After 6 points, students are eligible for the Level 1 certificate; after 12 points, Level 2; and after 18 points, Level 3!
- At Level 1, students will be able to select and complete courses offered as part of our Virtual European Exchange Programme (VEEP): our tailor-made Alliance-wide programme for virtual and hybrid teaching and learning.
- Going abroad for Level 2 and Level 3! We will be encouraging students to make the most of the wonderful opportunities provided by Erasmus+ programmes to study at an EUPeace university and complete some in-person European Track courses while they are there.
What kind of courses are suitable for EUTrack?
You are interested in offering your courses, but you are unsure if they are eligible for the European Track? Along with mobility and interculturality, diversity and interdisciplinarity are also integral elements of the European Track.
- We want there to be something for everyone. The European Track will include courses in different Alliance languages, including English, and drawn from a wide variety of subject areas.
- European Track courses will be organised, broadly, into the following seven thematic areas, each of which has both an interdisciplinary and a global aspect as depicted above.
- Area 1 offers students the opportunity to complete language courses or courses in intercultural communication with a particular specialist focus.
- Areas 2-4 are orientated towards the social sciences and the arts and humanities.
- Areas 5-7 will draw on the natural, environmental, and biomedical sciences, as well as various branches of engineering.
Each of these thematic areas is inherently interdisciplinary: none of them fits neatly into traditional subject boundaries, and in fact, some of the courses probably belong to several different areas at once.
And that is precisely the point! The challenges of tomorrow will only be addressed if all sorts of different people from different disciplines, different professions, and different walks of life work together. We want to equip our students to be part of that.
For your courses to be eligble for inclusion in the programme, they should develop core competences, which fit EUTrack’s learning outcomes and thematic areas – as illustrated above. Our lecturers’ information pack offers you more details on the inclusion criteria.
When does it start and how can I find out more?
The Virtual European Exchange Programme (VEEP) – which will host the virtual and hybrid elements of the European Track – has been up and running since the winter semester of 2024/2025.
The European Track itself launched in its pilot phase in the autumn/winter semesters of 2025/2026. Students have been able to collect ECTS points for the Track from that point onwards.
You can learn more information about the individual partner universities‘ course offers, as well as local rules around on the students’ EUTrack Page.
You can find the complete current EUPeace course offer – including all European Track courses – in our brand-new Course Repository, which is available via our Mobility Portal. Do remember to check “European Track (EUTrack)” in the filter list on the left-hand side when searching for courses!
You can find our complete EUTrack course offer for the Winter Semester 2025-26 here. Please note that the student deadlines for these courses have already passed.
In order to find out more about how to offer your courses, you can get in touch with these colleagues who are responsible within the Alliance for curriculum development:
- University of Marburg: Dr Karina Lammert: karina.lammert@verwaltung.uni-marburg.de
- Justus Liebig University Giessen: Dr Robert Craig: robert.craig@uni-giessen.de
- University of Limoges: Pauline Jacquet: eupeace.mobility@unilim.com
- University of Calabria: Isabella Tedesco: isabella.tedesco@unical.it
- Comillas Pontifical University: Jaime Villaverde Rivero: jvillaverde@comillas.edu
- University of West Bohemia in Pilsen: Jana Čepičková: jcepicko@ujp.zcu.cz
- University of Mostar: Dr Jelena Jurčić: rektorat-ms@sum.ba
- Çukurova University: Prof. Dr. Özkan Özgün: oozgun@cu.edu.tr
- University of Sarajevo: Prof. Dr. Sarina Bakić: sarina.bakic@fpn.unsa.ba
