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
