The European Track

Europe is facing a formidable set of challenges. Everything – politics, geopolitics, war, climate change, pandemics – seems to be coming at us at once, faster than ever before. And if we feel overwhelmed, we’re not alone. Disorientation seems to have become a collective status quo, a new norm.

But what can we do? How do we address these huge problems with realistic solutions? And how can we build and sustain fair, free and peaceful societies at a time like the one we’re living in? Whatever you’re studying, and whatever career plans you have in mind, the European Track is here to help you become part of the answers to those huge questions.

The basic structure of the European Track is very simple and straightforward. Here are the key facts:

We strongly recommend that you do! Mobility and interculturality are right at the heart of the European Track: we want to encourage you to explore new places, countries, cultures, styles of teaching and learning, and ways of looking, seeing, and thinking.

The great thing about the European Track is that it’s very flexible. It offers different ways of internationalising your study experience:

• The Virtual European Exchange Programme (VEEP) is the EUPeace Alliance’s virtual exchange programme for online learning. All virtual and hybrid learning units that are offered for the European Track are offered via VEEP. It’s a great way to try out intercultural and international learning from the comfort of your own home and seeing whether you might want to study abroad in person.
• If you’ve taken a VEEP course and liked it, then you’ll love studying abroad with the Erasmus+ programme at one of the nine EUPeace partner universities! You can find everything you need to know about organising a semester or a year abroad by checking out Erasmus+ Long-Term Mobilities on our EUPeace Mobility Portal. Remember that you’ll need to start planning an Erasmus+ mobility – with the help of your home university – at an early stage, so that you don’t miss any key deadlines.
• If you’re only able to go abroad for a shorter stay, if you want to “try out” a particular university first, or even if you’ve done a semester abroad and want some more international experience… we’ve also got options for you! Our Alliance organises spring, summer and winter schools – often as a so-called “Blended Intensive Programme (BIP)”. The Mobility Portal has information about short-term Erasmus+ mobilities and Blended Intensive Programmes. These can often count towards your European Track.

You can start your European Track either virtually or in person, and you can combine virtual and physical mobility — in the order that makes sense for you — over the course of all three levels.

You can find the complete current EUPeace course offer in our Course Repository, which is available via our Mobility Portal:

Here’s how to use the Course Repository and start on your European Track:

• At the top of the Course Repository homepage, you can find a guide to using the Repository. Here you’ll find answers to a series of FAQs, as well as a list of term and semester dates.
• Towards the bottom of this page, as well as on the VEEP homepage, you can find a list of publication and sign-up dates for virtual and hybrid courses at all nine EUPeace partner universities.
• You can find European Track courses by checking “European Track (EUTrack)” in the list of filter functions on the left-hand side of the Course Repository homepage. You can filter by many other options, including university, language, and thematic field.
• You can find virtual and hybrid European Track courses by additionally checking “Virtual European Exchange Programme (VEEP)”. Remember that in order to take in-person European Track courses, you’ll need to be either planning or already taking part in an in-person Erasmus+ mobility semester. You can find out more about how to do this on the EUPeace Mobility Portal.
• By checking “Enrolment Closed”, you can find all those courses in the current semester whose enrolment has closed. By checking “Archived”, you can find all those courses that we have offered in past semesters.
• You can directly apply/sign up for courses via the individual course pages in the Repository.

Familiarise yourself with your own university’s rules for the European Track before signing up for European Track courses at other EUPeace partner universities. There are slightly different rules for following the European Track at the different EUPeace partner universities. Below you can find information about the individual partner universities‘ European Track offers along with local contact details.