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Workplan

In the second funding period (2022-2026), the Arqus Alliance will deepen, expand and institutionalise the pilot projects that were developed in the course of the first funding period (2019-2022). The following content-related work packages were developed jointly:

  • To bridge research and education to prepare young Europeans for existing and emerging grand societal challenges
  • To explore ways of even deeper cooperation between our universities and their ecosystems
  • To co-create new actionable knowledge and contribute to regional and European innovation strategies

  • To develop Arqus identity and sense of belonging across all partner institutions, promoting staff engagement at all levels
  • To serve as a framework for bench- and peer-learning to take place in all areas of institutional activity
  • To offer staff development opportunities across all partner institutions

  • To promote student participation and enhance student engagement at Alliance level 
  • To enhance the students’ Arqus experience through student-led creative projects
  • To accelerate students' personal and professional development
  • To enhance Arqus student services

  • To promote a culture of innovative student-centred learning, teaching and assessment
  • To promote excellence in teaching
  • To bridge research and education to prepare young Europeans for existing and emerging grand societal challenges

  • To design and provide flexible joint academic offer
  • To increase flexibility in existing curricula
  • To bridge research and education to prepare young Europeans for existing and emerging grand societal challenges

  • To provide early-stage researchers the skills necessary to become internationally competitive in academia
  • To provide early-stage researchers the skills necessary to launch successful careers outside academia
  • To promote the establishment of sustainable networks and collaboration involving Arqus early-stage researchers
  • To bridge research and education to prepare young Europeans for existing and emerging grand societal challenges
  • To co-create new actionable knowledge and contribute to regional and European innovation strategies

  • To foster knowledge and technology transfer among local eco-systems
  • To enhance joint science dissemination
  • To explore ways of even deeper cooperation between our universities and their ecosystems
  • To co-create new actionable knowledge and contribute to regional and European innovation strategies

  • To fully institutionalize joint mobility structures for the benefit of students, academics, and professional staff
  • To establish and pilot innovative forms and types of mobility feeding the development of Arqus flexible learning
  • To enhance the quality of Arqus mobility
  • To build an Arqus mobility culture which fully responds to Erasmus+ Transversal Priorities (digital, green, inclusive)

  • To promote inclusion and diversity culture throughout all Arqus activities
  • To support inclusion and diversity culture at Arqus partner universities
  • To foster engagement of members of the Alliance community as actors of change towards an inclusive and diverse Arqus
  • To contribute as a role model to knowledge building about inclusion in the European higher education context

  • To enhance plurilingual competence of Arqus students and staff
  • To enhance intercultural competence of Arqus students and staff for democratic citizenship
  • To develop multilingual Arqus resources and tools

  • To facilitate access to partners' platforms and services
  • To establish a joint Arqus platform for academic offer
  • To develop a joint system for digital certification, including micro-credentials

  • To attract talent to Arqus as a European University 
  • To promote bottom-up activities in joint flexible academic offer, and associated research

  • To promote strategic planning culture for the Arqus Alliance
  • To ensure informed and evidence-based decision making
  • To institutionalize and develop Arqus structures and procedures which are fit for purpose

ARQUS Coordination

Leechgasse 34/I
8010 Graz


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