CHARM-EU secures funding to expand and implement its innovative vision

Institucional The new CHARM-EU proposal has won a grant in the 2022 Erasmus+ European Universities Call. CHARM-EU, alongside the three new partners, will continue to deepen, intensify and expand the effectiveness of the existing cooperation to advance the higher education transformation process towards full European universities and increase its impact. In 2019, the CHARM-EU Alliance was among the first seventeen European Universities selected by the European Commission in the European Universities Initiative , designed to foster the quality, inclusiveness and competitiveness of European higher education. Since then, CHARM-EU has been building up a successful collaboration between its partners that resulted in designing several innovative tools, models, and programmes, such as the Master's in Global Challenges for Sustainability , under the criteria of the European Universities initiative. The alliance has created the Knowledge Creating Teams, formed by the academic staff of different disciplines and universities, it has also engaged external stakeholders and has developed a governance model with innovative administrative structures supported by the CHARM-EU core values : inclusion, student-focused, socially-responsible, sustainable, innovative, transparent and transdisciplinary. CHARM-EU has also started shaping its Research & Innovation dimension through the "Transforming Open Responsible Research and Innovation through CHARM" ( TORCH ) project, funded by the European Union under the Horizon 2020 programme.