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On this page, we are happy to share reports, results, and outputs linked to the set-up and implementation of the Alliance. New resources will be added as we reach further milestones, and we hope that they will serve as inspiration and support to other European universities and Alliances to help reach their objectives.

22 resources with topic Innovative Pedagogies

  • Co-Creation for Digital Equity: Replicable Model of Digital Civic Co-Creation and Methodological Guide – LaCoTT Open Lab (2026)

    This methodological guide presents a replicable model for digital civic co-creation developed by the LaCoTT Open Lab. It supports collaboration between universities, students and civic organisations to develop accessible, multilingual digital solutions while promoting service-learning, digital equity and Europe–Africa cooperation.
    • Innovative Pedagogies
    • Service Learning
    • Research & Innovation
    • Inclusion & Diversity
    • Civic engagement
    • Participatory research
    • Joint learning
    • Education
    • Open Labs
    • Toolbox
    • Guide
    • Students
    • Academics
    • Researchers
    • Administrators
    • Civil society
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  • CIVIS Open Lab on Intergenerational Learning Communities: Best Practices Showcase (2026)

    This resource presents the CIVIS Open Lab’s community-based approach to intergenerational learning. It showcases practices using storytelling, volunteering, sport, dance and music to reduce ageism and social isolation, strengthen civic bonds and foster meaningful connections across generations.
    • Innovative Pedagogies
    • Inclusion & Diversity
    • Civic engagement
    • Education
    • Open Labs
    • Guide
    • Students
    • Academics
    • Researchers
    • Administrators
    • Civil society
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  • Digital Guidebook on Credited Multiple & Joint Education

    In this guidebook, the CIVIS team is proposing a framework of educational support for all the multiple and varied learning activities carried out at the Alliance level. Therefore, our alliance developed an innovative and ground-breaking model, internally piloted and validated, hoping also to become a source of good European practice for the design of the new academic curriculum within the European Alliances.
    • Challenged-based approach
    • Innovative Pedagogies
    • Micro-credentials
    • Blended Intensive Programmes
    • Micro-programmes
    • Joint learning
    • Education
    • Quality Assurance
    • Skills
    • Report
    • Academics
    • Researchers
    • Administrators
    • Policy makers
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  • Designing Relaxed Concerts: The All Year Long CIVIS Open Lab Music Ensembles Project Experience (2026)

    This practical guide shares the experience of the All-Year-Long CIVIS Open Lab Music Ensembles project in designing Relaxed Concerts for people living with dementia and their carers. It provides guidance and good practices for creating more accessible, welcoming and inclusive musical experiences.
    • Challenged-based approach
    • Innovative Pedagogies
    • Service Learning
    • Inclusion & Diversity
    • Civic engagement
    • Participatory research
    • Education
    • Open Labs
    • Guide
    • Students
    • Academics
    • Researchers
    • Administrators
    • Civil society
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  • Applying a Service Learning approach in course design (2026)

    This module is the result of collaboration between CIVIS Service Learning experts and the alliance's pedagogical innovation area.
    • Innovative Pedagogies
    • Service Learning
    • Course, module or learning opportunity
    • Academics
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  • CIVIS Service Learning guidelines for lecturers (2024)

    The CIVIS Expert Group Service-Learning has created and made available the CIVIS Service-Learning Guide for Lecturers at all CIVIS universities and associate member Universities in Africa in 2024. The guide aims to offer lecturers at all CIVIS universities a tool for better combining academic knowledge with civic engagement in their educational activities, by applying the pedagogical approach of service-learning.
    • Innovative Pedagogies
    • Service Learning
    • Communication and Dissemination
    • Guide
    • Academics
    • Researchers
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  • Digital Guidebook on the CIVIS Challenge-Driven Approach (2024)

    CIVIS, Europe’s Civic University Alliance, brings together 11 research universities to advance a strong challenge‑based educational model that equips students to address real societal and environmental issues. By combining civic engagement, inter‑ and transdisciplinary collaboration and partnerships with local stakeholders through Open Labs, CIVIS ensures that learning is grounded in authentic, complex challenges linked to the SDGs. This digital guidebook is based on our best practices.
    • Challenged-based approach
    • Innovative Pedagogies
    • Communication and Dissemination
    • Report
    • Academics
    • Researchers
    • Policy makers
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  • CIVIS guidelines to create digitally enhanced courses (2024)

    Digitalisation has reshaped education, not only through hybrid formats and learning platforms but also by mirroring broader cultural shifts in how young people communicate, access information and create content. These changes raise new questions about teaching roles, assessment and the purpose of the classroom, while highlighting risks such as unreliable information and loss of attention. The CIVIS alliance offers a collaborative framework to address these challenges through four pillars: understanding digital and hybrid teaching, using instructional design for coherent online courses, co‑creating programmes across universities, and applying CIVIS Moodle supported by dedicated guidance.
    • Innovative Pedagogies
    • Digital Campus
    • Communication and Dissemination
    • Report
    • Guide
    • Academics
    • Researchers
    • Policy makers
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  • CIVIS micro-credentials. Notes for a challenge-based approach (2023)

    In this report, we want to explore to what extent it would be possible to propose a modular educational offer that would reconcile civic engagement with the acquisition of competencies that allow learners to adapt to a (personal, social, occupational) changing context. In order to do so, it is necessary to take into account both the pedagogical particularities of the micro-credentials and the very vision and structure of CIVIS.
    • Challenged-based approach
    • Innovative Pedagogies
    • Micro-credentials
    • Communication and Dissemination
    • Report
    • Academics
    • Researchers
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  • CIVIS Hubs: An Overview of the First Phase of CIVIS (2022)

    This report provides an overview of the development and achievements of the five CIVIS Hubs during the first phase of the Alliance. It presents their role as academic collaboration spaces for developing multinational, multidisciplinary and challenge-based educational opportunities across CIVIS universities.
    • Challenged-based approach
    • Innovative Pedagogies
    • European Universities initiative
    • Global partnerships
    • Research & Innovation
    • Joint learning
    • Education
    • Report
    • Students
    • Academics
    • Researchers
    • Administrators
    • Civil society
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  • Open Educational Resources: Recommendations (2022)

    This resource presents recommendations from the CIVIS Open Science Taskforce for the development, dissemination and sustainable use of Open Educational Resources (OER) across the Alliance. It addresses accessibility, diversity and inclusion, licensing, repositories and incentives for creating and using OER.
    • Innovative Pedagogies
    • European Universities initiative
    • Research & Innovation
    • Inclusion & Diversity
    • Education
    • Policy recommendations
    • Guide
    • Academics
    • Researchers
    • Administrators
    • Civil society
    • Policy makers
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  • CIVIS Creat’on Game: A Creative Marathon (2021)

    The CIVIS Creat’on Game is a practical, collaborative methodology designed to help teams address real-world challenges and transform creative ideas into concrete, actionable projects. Developed in connection with the CIVIS Creathon 2021, the resource combines an overview of the CIVIS creative marathons with a step-by-step manual for organising and facilitating the game.
    • Challenged-based approach
    • Innovative Pedagogies
    • Inclusion & Diversity
    • Student leadership
    • Civic engagement
    • Participatory research
    • Joint learning
    • Toolbox
    • Training materials
    • Guide
    • Students
    • Academics
    • Researchers
    • Administrators
    • Civil society
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  • Digitally Enhanced Mobility: CIVIS Handbook on Virtual Mobility (2021)

    This handbook explores virtual mobility in higher education and provides a CIVIS framework for developing digitally enhanced learning opportunities. It presents key concepts, different types of virtual mobility and practical pathways for strengthening collaboration and developing European curricula across CIVIS universities.
    • European Degree
    • Student Mobility
    • Innovative Pedagogies
    • Digital Campus
    • Virtual mobility
    • Joint learning
    • Education
    • Guide
    • Students
    • Academics
    • Researchers
    • Administrators
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  • Innovative Pedagogies: Ways into the Process of Learning Transformation (2019-2021)

    This CIVIS handbook explores innovative pedagogies in higher education and showcases practical examples developed across CIVIS universities. It provides a framework for understanding and clustering pedagogical innovation, while offering academics concrete practices and inspiration for creating engaging, student-centered and transformative learning experiences.
    • Innovative Pedagogies
    • European Universities initiative
    • Guide
    • E-book
    • Students
    • Academics
    • Researchers
    • Administrators
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  • CIVIS Moodle

    The CIVIS Moodle is the alliance's common learning platform. Although some courses are taught on the universities' local platforms, the CIVIS Moodle includes a significant part of CIVIS' educational offering
    • Innovative Pedagogies
    • Digital Campus
    • Web platform
    • Students
    • Academics
    • Researchers
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  • Third Call for Proposals for CIVIS Hub 1 Activities: Climate, Environment and Energy (2021)

    This call invited academics and researchers from CIVIS universities to propose joint education and research activities within Hub 1: Climate, Environment and Energy. It aimed to foster synergies between education, research and innovation through multidisciplinary and challenge-based collaboration across the Alliance.
    • Challenged-based approach
    • Innovative Pedagogies
    • European Universities initiative
    • Research & Innovation
    • Joint learning
    • Education
    • Climate, environment and energy
    • Course, module or learning opportunity
    • Academics
    • Researchers
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  • Call for Proposals for CIVIS Health Hub 3 Activities (2021)

    This call invited CIVIS academics to propose joint educational activities within the Health Hub. It aimed to develop multidisciplinary and innovative learning pathways across a wide range of health domains, involving at least three CIVIS partner universities.
    • Challenged-based approach
    • Innovative Pedagogies
    • Blended Intensive Programmes
    • European Universities initiative
    • Global partnerships
    • Research & Innovation
    • Inclusion & Diversity
    • Civic engagement
    • Joint learning
    • Education
    • Course, module or learning opportunity
    • Academics
    • Researchers
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  • Call for Proposals for CIVIS Hub 2 Activities: Society, Culture and Heritage (2021)

    This call invited CIVIS academics and researchers to propose joint activities within CIVIS Hub 2: Society, Culture and Heritage. It aimed to foster synergies between education, research and innovation through interdisciplinary and challenge-based collaboration across CIVIS universities.
    • Challenged-based approach
    • Innovative Pedagogies
    • Blended Intensive Programmes
    • European Universities initiative
    • Research & Innovation
    • Civic engagement
    • Education
    • Cultural heritage
    • Course, module or learning opportunity
    • Academics
    • Researchers
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  • First Call for Proposals for CIVIS Hub 4 Activities: Cities, Mobilities and Territories (2021)

    This call invited CIVIS academics and researchers to propose joint education and research activities within Hub 4: Cities, Mobilities and Territories. It aimed to foster interdisciplinary and challenge-based collaboration addressing key urban, social, environmental and territorial challenges.
    • Challenged-based approach
    • Innovative Pedagogies
    • European Universities initiative
    • Research & Innovation
    • Inclusion & Diversity
    • Civic engagement
    • Joint learning
    • Education
    • Course, module or learning opportunity
    • Academics
    • Researchers
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  • Second Call for Proposals for CIVIS Hub 1 Activities: Climate, Environment and Energy (2021)

    This call invited CIVIS academics and researchers to propose joint education and research activities within Hub 1: Climate, Environment and Energy. It aimed to foster multidisciplinary, challenge-based collaboration and strengthen synergies between education, research and innovation across CIVIS universities.
    • Challenged-based approach
    • Innovative Pedagogies
    • Blended Intensive Programmes
    • European Universities initiative
    • Research & Innovation
    • Inclusion & Diversity
    • Civic engagement
    • Joint learning
    • Education
    • Climate, environment and energy
    • Course, module or learning opportunity
    • Academics
    • Researchers
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  • CIVIS Workshop Series on Innovative Pedagogies (2021)

    This resource presents the CIVIS Workshop Series on Innovative Pedagogies, a collection of training activities designed to support academics and educators in exploring innovative approaches to teaching and learning. The workshops cover topics ranging from effective feedback and inclusive education to digital technologies, service-learning and experiential learning.
    • Innovative Pedagogies
    • Digital Campus
    • European Universities initiative
    • Inclusion & Diversity
    • Civic engagement
    • Joint learning
    • Education
    • Training materials
    • Academics
    • Researchers
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  • Beyond the Turbulences: Higher Education as Factor of Stability (2020)

    This CIVIS statement reflects on the role of higher education during the COVID-19 crisis and the lessons learned by CIVIS universities. It highlights five strategic areas for strengthening universities as spaces of stability, innovation, inclusion and civic engagement.
    • Innovative Pedagogies
    • Digital Campus
    • European Universities initiative
    • Virtual mobility
    • Inclusion & Diversity
    • Education
    • Policy recommendations
    • Students
    • Academics
    • Researchers
    • Administrators
    • Policy makers
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