On 4 and 5 December, Alexandre Wipf, Secretary General of EUPeace, and Dr Robert Craig, coordinator of Work Package 2 (“Transforming Curricula”), attended a two-day workshop on the development of the new European Degree Label. The event was organised by the topical groups “European Degree & Joint Programmes” and “Quality Assurance” within FOREU4ALL and hosted by the EUTOPIA Alliance at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.
Advancing the European Degree: From Policy Vision to Implementation
The purpose of the workshop was to discuss the Europe-wide implementation of the European Degree: an ambitious new type of joint degree – at both undergraduate and graduate levels – that will be developed within a much more streamlined regulatory framework than at any other point in Europe’s history. The aim for the European Degree is profoundly to facilitate innovative and interdisciplinary educational cooperation between European universities at a time when that cooperation is more urgently needed than ever before.
From Policy to Practice: Implementing Joint Degrees Across Europe
Alongside plenary panel sessions and a poster presentation, there was ample time for small-group work focused on the details of implementation – both of the planned Degree itself and of its preparatory Degree label. How can universities meet the set criteria for the European Degree? How might the fulfilment of those criteria be measured? And – most importantly of all – how do our alliances create attractive and sustainable joint degrees that prepare our students for the fast-paced and ever-shifting societies and job markets of today and tomorrow?
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© privateAlexandre Wipf was a member of the workshop’s organizing committee, and Robert Craig brought specific EUPeace perspectives to bear in the breakout rooms – reflecting, once again, the Alliance’s active role in helping to shape the European higher education landscape over the coming years.
