International experiences accessible to all students, new pedagogies and entrepreneurship, objectives of EUt+ week in Cartagena
Published on January 20, 2025
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Updated on January 23, 2025
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on the January 20, 2025
The rector of the UPCT highlights the advantages for students and the productive sector of international mobility of students and professors.
Experts from the European Commission are participating this week in the meetings of the Education Committee of the European University of Technology, which are being held from today until Thursday in Cartagena as part of EUt+ week, hosted for the third time by the UPCT and attended by around 140 representatives from the nine universities that make up this alliance of polytechnics.
The rector of the UPCT, Mathieu Kessler, welcomed the members of the nine universities, emphasising the impact on our companies and productive sector of the international experience acquired by students thanks to the mobility programmes for students and teachers. "Those who cannot take courses abroad due to their personal circumstances can receive classes from international professors and participate in programmes that combine online and face-to-face training", he explained.
In this sense, the executive director of another European alliance of polytechnics, called EELISA, took part in Tuesday's conference, explaining the advantages of the new model of European universities. ‘Our aim is to make mobility more accessible and for all students to have at least one international experience,’ said Sofia Costa D'Aguiar, noting that “only 3% of European students had access to the Erasmus exchange programme”.
Making progress in the preparation and launch of official joint degrees is one of the main topics being discussed during this week of EUt+ in Cartagena, with Yann-maël Bideau, representative of the European Commission's Directorate-General for Education, and Aleksandar Šušnjar, the director of the European quality assurance register for degrees, taking part in the work this Wednesday, virtually. Sofia Costa D'Aguiar, Executive Director of the European Engineering Learning Innovation and Science Alliance, is also attending EUt+ week to learn about the integration progress of other European university consortia.
The week includes, this Thursday, the first session of the ‘Train the Trainers’ training programme for teachers, focused on teaching innovation and student-centred methodologies in accordance with the EUt+ pedagogical framework that will be adopted by the joint degrees being developed. This programme will train the ‘trainer champions’ who will drive the pedagogical changes throughout the University.
EUt+ is also taking advantage of its meeting in Cartagena to launch this Wednesday its Incubation Program, an innovation and entrepreneurship initiative that will provide free training and advice for students, with personalised mentoring from entrepreneurs and business people from the nine countries of the universities that make up EUt+. The training will be online and there will be local competitions to choose representatives from each university who will explain their projects at an event to be held in Darmstadt, Germany.
The rector of the UPCT, Mathieu Kessler, welcomed the members of the nine universities, emphasising the impact on our companies and productive sector of the international experience acquired by students thanks to the mobility programmes for students and teachers. "Those who cannot take courses abroad due to their personal circumstances can receive classes from international professors and participate in programmes that combine online and face-to-face training", he explained.
In this sense, the executive director of another European alliance of polytechnics, called EELISA, took part in Tuesday's conference, explaining the advantages of the new model of European universities. ‘Our aim is to make mobility more accessible and for all students to have at least one international experience,’ said Sofia Costa D'Aguiar, noting that “only 3% of European students had access to the Erasmus exchange programme”.
Making progress in the preparation and launch of official joint degrees is one of the main topics being discussed during this week of EUt+ in Cartagena, with Yann-maël Bideau, representative of the European Commission's Directorate-General for Education, and Aleksandar Šušnjar, the director of the European quality assurance register for degrees, taking part in the work this Wednesday, virtually. Sofia Costa D'Aguiar, Executive Director of the European Engineering Learning Innovation and Science Alliance, is also attending EUt+ week to learn about the integration progress of other European university consortia.
The week includes, this Thursday, the first session of the ‘Train the Trainers’ training programme for teachers, focused on teaching innovation and student-centred methodologies in accordance with the EUt+ pedagogical framework that will be adopted by the joint degrees being developed. This programme will train the ‘trainer champions’ who will drive the pedagogical changes throughout the University.
EUt+ is also taking advantage of its meeting in Cartagena to launch this Wednesday its Incubation Program, an innovation and entrepreneurship initiative that will provide free training and advice for students, with personalised mentoring from entrepreneurs and business people from the nine countries of the universities that make up EUt+. The training will be online and there will be local competitions to choose representatives from each university who will explain their projects at an event to be held in Darmstadt, Germany.
Date of update 23 janvier 2025