On 20 May 2026, the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen (UWB) held a ceremony for one of the first graduates from EUPeace’s flagship initiative, the European Track (EUTrack), as part of the university’s end-of-semester festival (SemestrOFF).
EUTrack Successfully Completed its Pilot Year
A student in the Czech Republic enrolling in artificial intelligence in Germany, European Union studies in Türkiye or Chinese language classes in Bosnia and Herzegovina. This kind of student timetable might sound unusual at first. Yet this is exactly what EUTrack was designed to make possible. The new initiative, launched within the European University Alliance EUPeace, allows students to take online courses across partner universities and receive academic recognition at their home institution. The pilot year has now concluded with the programme’s first successful participants.
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To earn the EUTrack Level 1 certificate, students had to complete at least six ECTS credits from courses offered by partner universities. Higher levels 2 and 3 are awarded for 12 and 18 credits, respectively. Hundreds of students from all nine EUPeace universities joined the initiative during its first year. The largest group of successful participants came from the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, where 41 students fulfilled the requirements for certification across seven different faculties. Two of these students even achieved Level 2 certification.
Among the most popular subjects were Artificial Intelligence and Introduction to Sustainability at Justus Liebig University Giessen, the European Union or Gender and Politics courses at Çukurova University as well as Interpersonal Communication and Chinese language courses offered by the University of Mostar.
“I really enjoyed the topics covered, and it was educationally beneficial for me. The only thing that surprised me was how disorganised the classes seemed at the very beginning. That was soon resolved, and the rest went smoothly. I found out about the opportunity to join the project completely by chance while selecting courses on the UWB courses portal,” said one of the Level 2 students Štěpán Cízler from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at UWB. He would now recommend the same experience to other students.
The coordinators consider the first year a success.
“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. We want to equip our students to become the changemakers of both today and tomorrow – and the central aim of the European Track is to help do that,” explained Robert Craig, leader of the EUPeace team that developed the EUTrack programme.
From Evaluation to Preparation
The team is now collecting feedback from participating students and mapping their experiences with the programme. The survey responses so far have highlighted strong student interest in international online learning opportunities but also point to practical challenges related to differing academic calendars and grading timelines at partner institutions.
For students, however, the programme offered something many had not experienced before.
“I think the greatest benefit is, above all, the opportunity to compare it with teaching at universities abroad. It was interesting to see how courses are taught, how communication with students takes place, and how the organisation of teaching differs from what I’m used to at the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen,” said Eliška Červinková, another Level 2 graduate from UWB.
EUPeace universities are now preparing the next academic year of EUTrack. Updated course offerings and enrolment information will be published by partner institutions in the coming months.
Courses for the academic year will be available in the Course Repository where students can filter through the entire selection. For more information, please find this link.
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