European testing ground for educational innovation enters new phase

Jan Haarhuis, programme manager educational innovation strategic alliances A European university that embraces change, in which international societal challenges are tackled, boundaries are being crossed and in which the best of universities from across Europe comes together. Utopia? No, this university already exists and Utrecht University is one of the driving forces: CHARM-EU (Challenge-driven, Accessible, Research-Based and Mobile European University). The first students are about to finish their master's programmes. When in 2017 the European Commission called for transformation of higher education and for more European collaboration, Utrecht University did not hesitate. The call seamlessly matched and matches its ambitions. Meetings with (potentially) like-minded institutions followed after which  Utrecht joined forces with the University of Barcelona ,  Trinity College Dublin , the University of Montpellier and  Eötvös Loránd Boedapest (ELTE). A new European University was born.