Outcomes workshop sessions Strategic Dialogue on European Universities by Studio Europa https://padlet.com/StudioEuropaMaastricht/s3e4f7m6tqbewnza en-us 2023-05-16 08:01:12 UTC 2025-10-24 04:19:06 UTC hello@padlet.com 1) Describe the ingredients of a long-lasting, future-proof vision for a European Universities alliance.Think about the elements your vision needs to have to still be relevant in 10 years’ time, how might you need to develop it and whom you might need to include in the process. StudioEuropaMaastricht https://padlet.com/StudioEuropaMaastricht/s3e4f7m6tqbewnza/wish/2592692778
  • In line with other EU funding schemes --> working jointly towards them.
  • Do things that you don’t do elsewhere (no double). 
  • Global challenges. 
  • Added values of alliances (co-creation of tools).
  • Keep up with societal needs and evolutions (inclusion & sustainability). 
  • Culture distances --> European values. 
  • Go beyond the existing patterns/frameworks. 
  • Engage people.
  • Global engagement + external stakeholders + connection with locals. 
  • Be honest about the purpose. 
  • Languages other than English. 
  • Work together (on EU strategy). 
  • Clear vision, added value, foresee challenges. 
  • Innovative mobilities --> responding to the network, researcher, and student's advice. 
  • Breaking down and deconstructing the concept of mobility (other levels & meanings of mobility). 
  • What is the aim of mobility --> can you meet this goal in other ways than being mobile? --> also in regard to sustainability.  
  • String European identity. 
  • Learn organisation stitch with your mission.
  • Building trust. 
  • Institutionalization of the alliance values/action/results. 
    • ]]>     2023-05-16 08:01:36 UTC https://padlet.com/StudioEuropaMaastricht/s3e4f7m6tqbewnza/wish/2592692778     3) How might we achieve a critical mass of engagement of our university communities in the alliance? Think about ways how you can reach different groups within the university community, what their interests are and how you may use this for the purpose of the alliance. StudioEuropaMaastricht https://padlet.com/StudioEuropaMaastricht/s3e4f7m6tqbewnza/wish/2601643282
  • Co-creation. 
  • Bring Europeanisation as an add-on.
  • Collaboration between alliances --> no competitive approach. 
  • Displaying new science. 
  • Role models as motivation. 
  • Creativity --> out of the box. 
  • Group interest. 
  • Find an influencer --> researchers & find profiles of interested people. 
  • Embed the alliance within Union’s strategic plans. 
  • Research & find profiles of interested people. 
  • Sustainability & engagement go hand in hand towards transformative HEIs. 
  • Research & find profiles of interested people. 
  • Have students at the forefront. 
  • Continues process --> critical thinking on people reluctant to the alliances’ purpose. 
  • Promotion of added value in students + staff.
  • Share results to show added value. 
  • Alumni as ambassadors.
  • Start with drawing the picture: what is your goal?
    • ]]>     2023-05-23 12:32:10 UTC https://padlet.com/StudioEuropaMaastricht/s3e4f7m6tqbewnza/wish/2601643282     2) How might we integrate the different dimensions of learning and teaching, research and innovation (given the different logics of cooperation in these areas) into an overall joint purpose? Cooperation in learning and teaching, research and innovation follow different logics, while it might be of interest to have a joint study programme with alliance partners in a certain area, research cooperation might focus on different partners as it is more bottom-up and peer to peer. StudioEuropaMaastricht https://padlet.com/StudioEuropaMaastricht/s3e4f7m6tqbewnza/wish/2601646580
  • Inclusion & resilience. 
  • Student-led education & research. 
  • Thematic issues --> converge towards 
  • Discussion on 2 levels: local level & alliance level. 
  • The synergy between learning/teaching & research/innovation. 
  • Trust funding/rewards for individuals. 
  • Turn the differences into positive possibilities. 
  • Compromise 
  • What is the motivation? Process or substance?
  • Start with having all local rules & regulations (and possibilities) clear. 
  • Find common grounds. 
  • Developing a whole new program together (might be easier than combining existing ones).
    • ]]>     2023-05-23 12:34:47 UTC https://padlet.com/StudioEuropaMaastricht/s3e4f7m6tqbewnza/wish/2601646580     4) How might we use the different motivations of people within the university community to work towards the alliance goals? Think about possible overlaps in the interests of your academics, students and administrative staff and look how you might use these to achieve the alliance’ goals. StudioEuropaMaastricht https://padlet.com/StudioEuropaMaastricht/s3e4f7m6tqbewnza/wish/2601648189
  • Aligning goals of alliance with local goals. 
  • More co-creation. 
  • Create innovative goals to transform motivation (top-down) balance between & bottom-up. 
  • Help to identify potential prospects for new education & research projects. 
  • Big bang --> European purpose. 
  • To ma a new strategy and structure. 
  • Connect/match motivations & opportunities across partner universities. 
  • Respect different motivations.
  • Facilitate innovation: a bottom-up approach. 
  • European values getting more important in geopolitical situations. 
  • Academics: Use alliance to have their work more widely known. 
  • Students who want to travel to other universities --> use this as motivation. 
  • Researchers are looking for people to collaborate with. 
  • Create a common platform of collaboration. 
  • Interesting partners within the alliance. 
  • what are the goals? Mobility, research collaborations, funding, reputation, visibility, sustainability. 
  • Eager to learn (from each other) 
  • Pioneers --> have the guts to try out/change/look forward. 
  • For academics: using the alliance for professional development --> for students + academic staff as well. 
    • ]]>     2023-05-23 12:36:01 UTC https://padlet.com/StudioEuropaMaastricht/s3e4f7m6tqbewnza/wish/2601648189     5) How might we improve the level of alignment of expectations between relevant groups within our universities, among alliance partners, policymakers and stakeholders? Think about ways to identify different expectations and a possible process how to facilitate exchange and develop a shared purpose. StudioEuropaMaastricht https://padlet.com/StudioEuropaMaastricht/s3e4f7m6tqbewnza/wish/2601650337
  • Ask for feedback from the European institutions on a regular basis. 
  • Communication: support from the board (e.g., newsletter in meetings) 
  • Understand individual expectations. 
  • Ask/encourage the policy-makers to create/consolidate reactional/EU framework for EUA structures (alliances). 
  • Review horizon. 
  • Onboarding procedures --> Work with stakeholders & ask their opinion. 
  • Students involved: how?
  • Organize brainstorming sessions with the different groups + between them. 
  • Listen.
  • More dialogue between different stakeholders. 
  • Bottom-up approach. 
  • Be transparent. 
  • Open discussion room for bringing in concerns + ideas. 
  • Smart use of digital tools to serve & enhance the purpose of EUA. 
  • Objective evaluation --> advisory boards
  • New approach within the alliance --> objective specific criteria. 
    • ]]>     2023-05-23 12:37:45 UTC https://padlet.com/StudioEuropaMaastricht/s3e4f7m6tqbewnza/wish/2601650337     6) How do we stay connected in the face of upcoming challenges, barriers and obstacles and use it as opportunities to work towards achieving our alliance goals?Think about ways to develop a team spirit and foster collaboration with the people at your university working for the alliance and with your partners. Imagine ways how to collaborate in addressing the challenge(s) by creating wins. Maybe you have mastered similar challenges in the past and developed resources/lessons learned that can be of help now. StudioEuropaMaastricht https://padlet.com/StudioEuropaMaastricht/s3e4f7m6tqbewnza/wish/2601651836
  • Ask for help. 
  • Survey of purpose within the Alliance. 
  • Collaboration on greater challenges. 
  • Co-creating a common and concrete purpose --> converge individual purpose to a common one.  
  • Community manager.
  • Evaluation --> critical thinking --> keep everybody on board. 
  • Keep each other updated on processes, results, threats etc. 
  • Transform challenges into opportunities.
  • Identify challenges. 
  • Work with specific topics (e.g., diversity, sustainability) and get the experts together.
  • Be honest --> not only show positive results but also failures. 
  • Share news between all the alliances (newsletters?). 
  • Social activities --> in-person events with original activities (sports, cooking etc.).
  • Teamwork and team spirit. 
  • Registration portal. 
  • Be innovative (for example with online education). 
  • Privacy policy no permission!
  • Linking by the community. 
  • Regular meetings --> communication.
  • Different ways to meet and be creative in meetings. 
    • ]]>     2023-05-23 12:38:52 UTC https://padlet.com/StudioEuropaMaastricht/s3e4f7m6tqbewnza/wish/2601651836     1) How to get Erasmus+ student mobility fund to be more supportive to innovative forms of multilateral mobility? Currently Erasmus+ perceives mobility (including blended mobility) to be bilaterally allowing a student from one university to take courses at one other university. But what if we need to support students that take physical courses at one university and complement them with online courses from one or maybe more other universities. So how to get Erasmus+ student mobility fund to be more supportive to exchange at different universities simultaneously, containing both physical and virtual components. StudioEuropaMaastricht https://padlet.com/StudioEuropaMaastricht/s3e4f7m6tqbewnza/wish/2601653041
  • Multilateral agreement for all Erasmus+ funded activity within the EUI consortium. 
  • Reduce the 2 monthly minimum requirements for funded mobility. 
  • Ensure fast allocation of mobility grants to the students (very start of mobility). 
  • Superhero: Loki --> Universities and students should come up with their own rules. 
  • Erasmus+ and European University funding integration. 
  • Stop the existing rules for Erasmus+ for EUI consortia and apply new rules that fit the consortia.
  • Make flexible robust rules for different study roads. 
  • Superhero: Tintin --> Give money to the student so that they can spend it on their needs.
  • Superhero: Tintin --> organise a student protest/strike “taking the dog to Brussels” 
    • ]]>     2023-05-23 12:39:50 UTC https://padlet.com/StudioEuropaMaastricht/s3e4f7m6tqbewnza/wish/2601653041     2) How to align different academic calendars - a challenge for joint programmes between certain universities or alliances. StudioEuropaMaastricht https://padlet.com/StudioEuropaMaastricht/s3e4f7m6tqbewnza/wish/2601656175
  • Online exam options. 
  • Semester schedule flexibility.
  • Shape the calendar based on each partner’s offers --> all need to make an effort. 
  • Flexible open book exams with flexible deadlines. 
  • Agree on a number of ECTS and extra ECT for exams. 
  • Type a calendar only for this programme.
  • Intake small modules that fit in all calendars. 
  • Tailor-made calendar. 
  • One partner’s calendar leads for a certain amount of time (2 months, a semester…).
  • Make an EU academic calendar (New Bologna rule). 
  • Have one calendar of reference --> one to rule them all!  -> The aim is to serve the students. 
    • ]]>     2023-05-23 12:42:18 UTC https://padlet.com/StudioEuropaMaastricht/s3e4f7m6tqbewnza/wish/2601656175     3) How can we enhance the type of student support that is needed to enhance student well-being within mobility rich joint programs? Could student peer support enhance student well-being during their mobility and should this support be (de)centralized within joint programmes. StudioEuropaMaastricht https://padlet.com/StudioEuropaMaastricht/s3e4f7m6tqbewnza/wish/2601657089
  • Look for facilitation outside the HEI community. 
  • (co)sharing houses/housing. 
  • Integrate through activities. 
  • Easy access to support contact (e.g., financial, health). 
  • Buddy-programme. 
  • Create a gameshow on support. 
  • Compile info about student services & support at the university level for all students.
  • Alliance-level mentors for all students of the joint programme. 
  • Organise a soccer match: students vs. teachers. 
  • Not only regular spots but also e-sports (combined team of students and teachers --> no competition) 
  • Intercultural training at the start of the program
  • Organize introductory weeks (each year/semester) with info & social activities. 
  • Compile different scholarship opportunities available in the different member states in order to make them more accessible. 
  • Pre-organized activities.
  • Stimulate students to organise (their choice) activities. 
  • Prince: no fear to try new things, brainstorming a lot, reinventing the existing, and using a multi-disciplinary approach. 
    • ]]>     2023-05-23 12:43:02 UTC https://padlet.com/StudioEuropaMaastricht/s3e4f7m6tqbewnza/wish/2601657089     4) In what ways can language-learning objectives become a mandatory part within joint programmes among universities from different countries? StudioEuropaMaastricht https://padlet.com/StudioEuropaMaastricht/s3e4f7m6tqbewnza/wish/2601657912
  • Students teaching students (peer learning) --> assumption = willingness (solution: give credit) and multilingual (solution: only in case of native language). 
  • Using language apps --> assumption = existing app? (solution: task IT students to develop) and financing (solution: paid partnership/consortium fund). 
  • Feeling the European identity is to speak several languages.
  • In fun language activities, every week incorporated in curriculum --> assumption = room in curriculum and fun element. 
  • Facilitate intercultural communication. 
  • “work” students’ position at universities (e.g., library, student organizations)  
  • Superwoman (feminist): it should not be mandatory (only if it has an added value) 
  • Language as extracurricular activity --> options/service at all institutions for interested students. 
    • ]]>     2023-05-23 12:43:44 UTC https://padlet.com/StudioEuropaMaastricht/s3e4f7m6tqbewnza/wish/2601657912     5) How might we develop new and innovative forms of transnational cooperation besides traditional joint programmes that need to be incorporated under the European Degree definition? StudioEuropaMaastricht https://padlet.com/StudioEuropaMaastricht/s3e4f7m6tqbewnza/wish/2601658687
  • Bring people from different partners together to develop new programmes completely. 
  • Mix joint programmes and/or traditional courses.
  • Learn from best practices or other consortia (e.g., team teaching developments).
  • Integration of specialists from different innovation areas of knowledge, and technology and teaching future stuff giving new types of EU cooperation. 
  • Student-led local research in each university + exchange data & insight. 
  • Fly to Mars and open up a new university. 
  • Disseminate the joint programme initiatives in the different universities of the alliance. 
  • The broad international outlook of EU Alliances through partnerships with non-EU partners. 
  • Explore UN scholarships for EU/non-EU exchange. 
    • ]]>     2023-05-23 12:44:21 UTC https://padlet.com/StudioEuropaMaastricht/s3e4f7m6tqbewnza/wish/2601658687     6) In what ways can we convince national governments to align national funding to joint programmes to allow for aligned tuition fee application across partner universities delivering the joint programmes? StudioEuropaMaastricht https://padlet.com/StudioEuropaMaastricht/s3e4f7m6tqbewnza/wish/2601659497
  • Stress the international value of these programmes. 
  • Give ministers a task in programmes. 
  • Supporting the regional, and local society, expertise etc. 
  • Joint programmes support some aspects that open new areas, perspectives, and possibilities of new knowledge and innovations. 
  • Convince them to make an exemption/distinct position for these programmes. 
  • There should be something in it for the governments (assumption). 
  • Students feedforward through internships, volunteering, youngster perspective etc. (solution). 
  • Assign the stars by students paying once and the platform distributes payments between the partners. 
  • Make Erasmus+ grant dependent on students' living costs to promote mobility & equality.        
    • ]]>     2023-05-23 12:44:54 UTC https://padlet.com/StudioEuropaMaastricht/s3e4f7m6tqbewnza/wish/2601659497     1) How can we identify alliance full and real costs considering it is unclear within alliances who (students and staff) and what (activities) specifically are included in these budgets? StudioEuropaMaastricht https://padlet.com/StudioEuropaMaastricht/s3e4f7m6tqbewnza/wish/2601660096
  • Evaluation of engagement and impact --> how?
  • In alliance focus on purpose and what budget is needed per partner. 
  • Make clear and public the information about real costs.
  • Evaluation of activities by impact. 
  • Increasing transparency f involvement of stakeholders to show the scope of activities/spending. 
  • The focus should be on the engagement of students and staff, commitment to wp’s, and investment in personal and professional development. 
  • Think about the budget through values and identify how to spend the money according to these values. 
  • Collective agreement on true purpose must happen before we decide what to spend the money on. 
  • Focus n real money put into the project not coming from EC: staff costs, indirect costs etc. 

    • ]]>     2023-05-23 12:45:21 UTC https://padlet.com/StudioEuropaMaastricht/s3e4f7m6tqbewnza/wish/2601660096     2) How then to exploit synergies and complementarities between diverse income streams? March 2023 funding study recommendation 1Alliances should seek to and develop sustainable business models exploiting synergies and complementarities between European, national/regional, and alliance-induced income streams. The latter could be generated through, for instance, fees for online and blended micro-credential certificates and joint research projects. StudioEuropaMaastricht https://padlet.com/StudioEuropaMaastricht/s3e4f7m6tqbewnza/wish/2601660837
  • Outside-in approach: new insights through regularly meeting with partner institutions --> experiment with governance structures. 
  • Map the incoming stream and their requirements.
  • Lobby national/regional funders to (re)align regulation on funding to math with the alliance-produce funding --> reduce red-tape bureaucracy om reporting on funding. 
  • Define/alliance-produced income streams & accountability of spending. 
  • Be aware of variation: (1) income streams & their specific conditions & look for alliance, (2) identify funding strategies for future, (3) exploit strategies. 
  • Start from projects and combine them (e.g., joint doctoral networks). 
  • Foster ongoing dialogue between funding bodies --> funding as support and not as burden by building trust. 
  • Potential solution: setting a framework in which funding is assigned to something --> framework within universities for joint programmes (that can still work in the next 10 to 15 years). 
  • Find alternatives to fund & joint research projects to ensure maximal student participation. 
    • ]]>     2023-05-23 12:45:56 UTC https://padlet.com/StudioEuropaMaastricht/s3e4f7m6tqbewnza/wish/2601660837     3) How to increase income? For which (a,b,c) activities? How to prioritise? StudioEuropaMaastricht https://padlet.com/StudioEuropaMaastricht/s3e4f7m6tqbewnza/wish/2601661296
  • Development: for scholars --> to apply for EU (national research) grants.
  • Do not increase tuition fees.
  • Increase income? For whom? Alliance? HEI?
  • Income: programme approach to project facility. 
  • Priorities: cooperation, infrastructure 
  • Impact as a criterion (long-term and short-term)
  • Goals, activities, funding. 
  • Expanding your market: lifelong learners, internationals (non-EU).
  • Create a new business model for non-traditional flexible learning pathways (e.g., paying per module, encouraging lifelong learning). 
  • Move EU money.
  • Lobbying from more national/regional/local support and harmonising it. 
  • Allocate part of innovation to EUA --> each partner institution does so.
  • Environment (local, NGO, businesses): cooperation with NGOs & applying for money. 
    • ]]>     2023-05-23 12:46:20 UTC https://padlet.com/StudioEuropaMaastricht/s3e4f7m6tqbewnza/wish/2601661296     4) How to increase transparency on the use of higher education institutions’ own (and other) resources? March 2023 funding study recommendation 2The degree of transparency of the use of higher education institutions’ own resources within alliances could be improved further. StudioEuropaMaastricht https://padlet.com/StudioEuropaMaastricht/s3e4f7m6tqbewnza/wish/2601662017
  • Digital resources: create a platform for sharing/open access, legal entity, transparency time needed (even more important than financing) 
  • Include regions funding. 
  • Challenge = identifying resources and how to calculate them.
  • Challenge = how to check that all resources are tracked. 
  • Transparency: human resources (how to calculate) --> workgroup: measurement & instruments. 
  • Ask members of each alliance to share their annual financial reports. 
  • Give more weight to the impact and focus less on deliverable costs (including this impact when determining ROI)
  • Focusing more on real impact (academic, societal, social) will drive to make better use of funding. 
  • Having a big and shared reporting about other resources.  
  • Having one or several people in charge of collecting/tracking resources across institutions. 
    • ]]>     2023-05-23 12:46:57 UTC https://padlet.com/StudioEuropaMaastricht/s3e4f7m6tqbewnza/wish/2601662017     5) How can we tackle the main regulatory obstacles considering the different governance levels? March 2023 funding study recommendation 3Regulatory obstacles to realise the full potential of the European Universities Initiative should be removed by means of a combined effort of the European Commission, Member States and the alliances. StudioEuropaMaastricht https://padlet.com/StudioEuropaMaastricht/s3e4f7m6tqbewnza/wish/2601669923
  • Assign the obstacles, classify the (European and national vs. important, not important), and tackle them. 
  • European approach for accreditation: serial assessment, commitment & concessions, European degree label. Rules staff European university: payment for alliance/without paying --> allow for centralized budgets to pay for alliance level staff (e.g., general secretary). 
  • Policy guidelines for joint programmes per country (at the institutional level). 
  • Creation of a financial framework: how money can be spent, who can allocate it, and rules of discussion on the budget. 
  • Trail & error: assessment of practical issues alliances can run into. 
  • Degree integration of the HE legal system within the EU --> (1) reduce/streamline existing national HEI regulations, (2) redefine or reshape new European regulation. 
  • Policy guidelines at the alliance level --> (1) identify obstacles at different governance levels --> try to overcome on the ground (not wait for EC), (2) lobbying activities. 
    • ]]>     2023-05-23 12:49:52 UTC https://padlet.com/StudioEuropaMaastricht/s3e4f7m6tqbewnza/wish/2601669923     6) In what ways might Member States allocate financial support to their national HEIs’ participation in transnational university alliances? (According to which criteria?)March 2023 funding study recommendation 4In line with the Commission’s recent European strategy for universities, two non-mutually exclusive options could be considered for national authorities to fund European Universities alliances: Option 1: For Member States that choose to allocate financial support to their national HEIs’ participation in transnational university alliances, performance agreements could provide a feasible way to support the European Universities.Option 2: Member States that choose to financially support their national HEIs’ participation in transnational university alliances can do so through targeted national funding provided for a number of years and allocated separately from core funding StudioEuropaMaastricht https://padlet.com/StudioEuropaMaastricht/s3e4f7m6tqbewnza/wish/2601672509 Performance agreement: satisfaction of student in career outcome/skills, the satisfaction of future employers/professors, student participation in the Alliance (& how well lone values translated in practice). 
    • All member states need to allocate national financial support.
    • All member states align their rules for national funding --> decide on a shared vision via dialogue with member states. 

    Targeted motivational funding: better align national and EU funding to allow for co-funding of actions. 
    • The political situation in each EU country 
    • Criteria: focus more on the benefits for the local environment.
    • Criteria: to address joint purpose and experience. 
    • Performance agreements jeopardise.

    ]]>     2023-05-23 12:51:45 UTC https://padlet.com/StudioEuropaMaastricht/s3e4f7m6tqbewnza/wish/2601672509     1) What main/essential ingredients are needed in the governance of European Universities alliances to achieve the goals? And how can we strengthen these? (what goal specifically?) For example, flat organisation, student/staff participation, integrated by partner appointed members, etc. StudioEuropaMaastricht https://padlet.com/StudioEuropaMaastricht/s3e4f7m6tqbewnza/wish/2601674310 Structure and processes: 
    • Simple structure and lean structure. 
    • Clear roles, responsibilities and mandate. 
    • Clear division of roles. 
    • The evolutive vision of goals and organisation. 
    • Clear goals, clear evaluations and actions. 
    • Clear information and decision-making process. 
    • Effective processes. 

    Coordination and communication: 
    • Effective coordination/communication. 
    • Communication platform. 
    • On and offline meetings (visible).

    ]]>     2023-05-23 12:53:04 UTC https://padlet.com/StudioEuropaMaastricht/s3e4f7m6tqbewnza/wish/2601674310     2) Which are the main perceived threats within an alliance for the partner universities in terms of Alliance Governance? And how might we minimise or avoid these threats? An example of a threat, to have different goals and priorities than the partner university. StudioEuropaMaastricht https://padlet.com/StudioEuropaMaastricht/s3e4f7m6tqbewnza/wish/2601692697
  • Minimise: boards with even representation of all the partners. 
  • Minimise: a slow shift from the legacy structure to the new one. 
  • International legislation system --> system barriers mitigations: more national engagement. 
  • Incompatibility of governance models.
  • Threats: reliance on others/trust in others.
  • Cultural difference in how to “run businesses”.
  • Engage more people within their own faculties. 
  • Threat: rapid change --> faculties not ready for this. 
  • Different interests --> colliding personalities. 
  • Fear of not being represented sufficiently. 
  • Diplomat superhero (Jean Monnet). 
  • Not a strong/no leadership --> not a clear and shared strategy.
  • Poor management.
  • Mediator: Barack Obama.
  • Internal dynamics/everyday business.
  • Different and sometimes opposite goals.
  • Threat: different priorities.
  • People leaving --> knowledge leak.  
    • ]]>     2023-05-23 13:06:48 UTC https://padlet.com/StudioEuropaMaastricht/s3e4f7m6tqbewnza/wish/2601692697     3) Which elements of the Governance can help us align partners’ universities and the alliance objectives and how can these be implemented in existing governance structures? For example, to have members of the Governance of the alliance with a full mandate of the partner institution. StudioEuropaMaastricht https://padlet.com/StudioEuropaMaastricht/s3e4f7m6tqbewnza/wish/2601695830 Culture:
    • Make cocreation (not necessarily consensus) the basis and starting point as well as the process itself. 
    • Create an inner culture in which it is understood that the alliance is a ‘consensus’-thing (you can't get it all à learn from the results). 
    • Ensure the participation of all stakeholders in the process (at least representation). 
    • Develop “rooms”, “forums”, and “platforms” outside the primary governance. 

    Bodies:
    • Strong committed rectors board. 
    • Dedicated decision-making bodies (education committed, research etc.) 
    • Guide of managing bodies and a term of reflection of each body 
    • What is a mandate while working with an autonomous department? (Netherlands). 
    • Vice-rector or senior offices in decision-making bodies. 
    • Working according to the laws of a country is acceptable by other partners. 
    • Specific offices supporting decision makers. 

    Structure: 
    • Common office for an alliance à secretary general. 
    • Do you need an alliance structure perfectly matching the partner structure to involve all parties?

    Quality: 
    • Agree on the objectives + constantly and regularly check on how everyone is still aligned. 
    ]]>     2023-05-23 13:09:15 UTC https://padlet.com/StudioEuropaMaastricht/s3e4f7m6tqbewnza/wish/2601695830     4) How can we combine academic freedom and a bottom-up approach with the Governance of alliances and in particular the pressure to deliver? We have a number of programmes or mobilities to deliver, but we cannot force Faculties and academics to arrive to arrive to fruitful agreements. On the other hand, we cannot impose the programmes. StudioEuropaMaastricht https://padlet.com/StudioEuropaMaastricht/s3e4f7m6tqbewnza/wish/2601697518
  • Governance bodies.
  • Academic boards: with the participation of vice-rectors for academic affairs and research to ensure coherence (no free ride) --> pressure to deliver related to purpose.
  • Bottom-up initiatives: identify locks, open doors, and create new connections.  
  • Bottom-up: instead of working uni-wide work with motivated colleagues and start with easy, low thresholds activities --> develop different narratives on “what’s in it for you”?
  • Show inspiring results of own and other alliances. 
  • Governance facilitates academic freedom --> agreement follows good match by giving arbiter role of student representative or external stakeholders. 
  • Incentives: funding + innovative pedagogy 
  • Incentives: set the frame at the beginning, but let it be freely filled. 
  • Incentives from governance to faculties and academics. 
    • ]]>     2023-05-23 13:10:28 UTC https://padlet.com/StudioEuropaMaastricht/s3e4f7m6tqbewnza/wish/2601697518     5) How might we get the engagement of our communities to ensure long-term commitment through the Governance? What can the European University offer to (already) overwhelmed high profiled staff to make it attractive to contribute to innovation and transformation. StudioEuropaMaastricht https://padlet.com/StudioEuropaMaastricht/s3e4f7m6tqbewnza/wish/2601699209
  • Encourage innovation. 
  • Changes to status-quo.
  • New insights. 
  • Mobility and exchanges: Staff exchanges, calls for staff mobility based on added value alliance, and mobilities managed by the alliance. 
  • Real networking with the alliance as the central point (sunflower). 
  • How to engage? Connect to existing projects/programmes/research and give the freedom to adapt the activities to uni-content + build on the “needs” of communities.
  • Less bureaucracy.  
  • Funding: reserve part of your exchange funding for exchange alliance wide + funding activities (and going sustainable). 
  • Reward and recognition --> look after your people. 
  • Community and building activities --> communication. 
  • Offering them a real impact on decisions made.
  • Report on the positive impact of the communities engagement --> communicate about it. 
  • Bloom + harvest: communicate to the communities that involvement and long-term engagement make the alliance bloom. 
  • Showing success, reporting impact and communicating. 
    • ]]>     2023-05-23 13:11:45 UTC https://padlet.com/StudioEuropaMaastricht/s3e4f7m6tqbewnza/wish/2601699209     6) How can we involve our stakeholders (regional, national or European) to ensure a good Governance of the Alliance with a strong societal compass? What can we offer them, how can we attract them to become transdisciplinary and societal challenge oriented. StudioEuropaMaastricht https://padlet.com/StudioEuropaMaastricht/s3e4f7m6tqbewnza/wish/2601700909
  • Expert board (e.g., companies, researchers)
  • Inclusive boards. 
  • Expert boards. 
  • An advisory board with society, non-governmental and private actors. 
  • Active partnerships with external stakeholders and associated partners. 
  • Courses for citizens. 
  • New staff exchanges, volunteering exchanges
  • Excellent competencies of students as future experts. 
  • Fully new and transdisciplinary students. 
  • Bring university to society on the field and open university to society. 
  • Connect to their questions and interests.
  • Celebrate differences, use individual tales, and work towards a common goal. 
  • Challenges from society.
  • Find and/or accept different balanced input from stakeholders. 
  • Workplan reflects all needs. 
  • Network and outreach: Participation from all interested parties (students, staff etc.), representation of all stakeholders, real commitment, advisory board, connected to partners. 
  • Trust: it's an organism created by people who build up the network. 
  • Ways of connecting people by the attractive new network. 
  • Common understanding and knowing each other’s goals. 
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