Across all five CIVIS Hubs, transnational teaching teams have built an extensive portfolio of challenge-based education tackling the issues students will face when they enter the labour market: climate change, health, migration, democratic resilience and the rise of AI among them.
The catalogue documents the full arc of that work: 12 so-called “flagship” projects that pioneered the model, 29 further educational activities from joint and multiple programmes to doctoral networks, micro-programmes and micro-credentials, that are currently under development or already running, and 236 Blended Intensive Programmes delivered during the CIVIS2 Erasmus+ project (October 2022 to September 2026). On BIPs, the 2024-25 BIP report already underlines that challenge-based education is a true added value of CIVIS BIPs.
What sets these activities apart is genuine interdisciplinarity: all of the 42 CIVIS educational provision and 82% of the BIPs, combines multiple academic fields and regularly brings in external stakeholders, from communities to industry experts. This transdisciplinary, challenge-based approach directly answers the priorities set out in the European Council's 2030 goals for the European Education Area: quality, inclusion, and the green and digital transitions.
Cite as: Jansson, U., Brännström, P., & CIVIS, Europe's Civic University Alliance. (2026). Catalogue of the CIVIS Hubs' challenge-based educational activities. CIVIS, Europe's Civic University Alliance. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22129165
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