ENGAGE.EU 2.0 Reports and Deliverables
Challenge-based Formats Developed
Milestone 40 consists of a handbook designed and developed as a strategic guide for implementing and scaling four activity formats deployed within the ENGAGE.EU Labs. The handbook ensures consistency, quality, and adaptability across all partner institutions by consolidating methodologies, structures, and best practices associated with each format.
Among the objectives of Work Package 6 are the creation of co-creation ecosystems, the promotion of lifelong learning for professionals, and the cultivation of a European innovation culture rooted in regional engagement and interdisciplinary collaboration. A key activity to achieve these goals is the development and deployment of challenge-based activity formats. The handbook is found in Appendix to this document.
Societal Impact Report – Academic year 2023-2024
During the 2023–2024 academic year, the ENGAGE.EU alliance made significant progress in fulfilling its mission to empower European citizens to actively contribute to societal transformation. This first impact report presents the key initiatives, outcomes, and lessons learned from across the alliance’s three focus areas: (a) Learning, (b) Research & Innovation, and (c) Societal Engagement. As the first annual report, this document reflects the alliance’s progress and provides a foundation for continuous learning and strategic adjustment. ENGAGE.EU remains firmly committed to delivering measurable societal value through inclusive, collaborative, and impact-oriented education and research.
Open Innovation Lab set up
The deliverable describes the inception of the Open Innovation Labs between ENGAGE.EU’s first and second funding periods. It then proceeds to relay the steps taken to achieve the creation of Labs in each ENGAGE.EU partner university. The individual labs are described in detail, including their mission and vision, KPIs, partners, activities and management.
Study on early stage researchers definition and needs analysis
This study explored the needs of doctoral and post-doctoral earlycareer researchers within ENGAGE.EU to shape Work package four strategies. Key findings highlight a strong demand for PhD specific trainings, research support, networking opportunities, and career guidance. Future actions include improved communication, and new support initiatives like a peerto-peer buddy system and a job opportunity webpage.
Concept for integrating and developing collaborative learning initiatives
The development of the ENGAGE.EU Academic Initiative Incubator as a concept for integrating and developing collaborative learning initiatives is progressing according to the work plan, with no deviations or delays. The development of a framework for existing ENGAGE.EU educational offers will be developed and maintained in task 2.1.
Dissemination Plan with Communication Concept
The ENGAGE.EU Dissemination Plan with Communication Concept is a living document that builds on the ENGAGE.EU Dissemination and Communication Strategy, placing a particular focus on dissemination. By effectively distributing its knowledge and innovations, the alliance seeks to foster societal change through inclusive learning, interdisciplinary research, and community engagement.
Methodology for collaboration for the purpose of the development plan
The aim of this deliverable is to describe the methodology for producing a partner development plan. It refers to the milestone MS38: “Development plan for ENGAGE.EU local chapters […] including an event’s agenda and profiles of participating external partners, […] for the establishment of one societal chapter per partner university”, i.e. a group of external partners at the local level that are sharing interests and objectives related to society or a common cause and that are involved in specific projects.
Selection Process and Quality Guidelines for Research Label
This deliverable describes how the ENGAGE.EU research label will encourage scientific collaboration within ENGAGE.EU by providing funding for cross-alliance
initiatives. The methodology used to define the label’s scope, selection process,
and quality assurance guidelines included benchmarking, desk research, and team meetings. Strategies were developed to overcome challenges despite constraints such as limited funds and complex financial policies. The process includes an annual call with flexibility for adjustments, to ensure alignment with existing initiatives and encourage participation from early-stage researchers. Furthermore, a simplified expenditure oversight process has been established, along with designated points of contact within each institution to facilitate inquiries and information dissemination.
Opening PhD courses catalogue
The deliverable consists in preparing and opening the inaugural catalogue of PhD/advanced research level courses/activities involving all ENGAGE.EU partner universities. This catalogue provides a first opportunity for our PhD students to benefit from training and learning opportunities at partner universities (online or in person) and will indicate the kind of courses that could open in the future to PhD students across the alliance. The catalogue will be updated on annual basis. As of 10/04/2024, the course catalogue displays 24 courses shared across the alliance and 4 courses are in the process of being uploaded.
Vision for Societal Impact
Developing a joint strategy and framework on societal impact.
“This task will formulate an overall vision for an ENGAGE.EU societal impact approach [regional ecosystem]. The vision is accompanied by a strategy including goals and measurable steps towards strongly embedded societal impact in the mission of the alliance and individual institutions. This is our response to the transformations in the conception and organisation of innovation which imposes new roles on universities.”
ENGAGE.EU R&I Reports and Deliverables
Second FOREU2 Report on Progress Made in the Implementation of R&I Long-Term Strategies
This joint deliverable aims at putting forward good practices on progress made in the implementation of R&I long-term strategies within pilot II Alliances via case studies provided by 20 H2020 SwafS projects awarded to European University Alliances. The case studies present different types of strategies and activities implemented in order to foster the development of the R&I dimension within Alliances.
The deliverable focuses first on the context and participant Alliances to this joint report. Case studies are then presented within three distinct topical categories: one concerns political strategies, another includes operational features, and the last topic deals with various other relevant good practices. Finally, the last section presents the key elements and lessons-learned from the case studies included in this deliverable.
This document presents the strategy and thematic agenda of ENGAGE.EU R&I as well as summaries of the associated actions plans for ENGAGE.EU R&I.
The ENGAGE.EU R&I Strategy presents the results of the analysis of existing R&I strategies and action plans of partners and associate partners and explores the potential for sharing and creating synergies between the partners (including associate partners) and with third parties to work on the R&I thematic agenda. The strategy will be interpreted and executed by each partner and associate partner locally, drawing on each other’s ideas, experiences, and mutual support.
In this policy brief, the European Universities pilot alliances report on the progress made through cooperation in selected R&I areas and provide a first set of recommendations to the European Commission for further policy development. This report aims to provide feedback on the challenges encountered during the first 18 months of ENGAGE.EU R&I and these challenges have been tackled. Additionally, it provides policy recommendations that may assist in co-shaping the design and implementation of the ERA Policy Agenda 2022-2024.
This document presents the common ENGAGE.EU R&I Talent Development Plan. The plan will serve as a reference for institutional talent development strategies and actions as well as for joint ENGAGE.EU talent development actions, to be piloted in task 4.2.
ENGAGE.EU aims at providing European citizens with the necessary set of skills and competences needed to tackle major societal challenges. No single institution can tackle these challenges on its own. Rather, it requires strong partnerships between various stakeholders equipped with a common sense of local and regional challenges, strengths, potentials and goals, who work together in defining issues and responding to challenges and uncertainties proactively; in other words: a dynamic, flexible and adaptive ecosystem. An ecosystem is a complex formation, where many factors work in parallel for it to function and thrive.
ENGAGE.EU 1.0 Reports and Deliverables
The Toolkit provides the teaching staff of ENGAGE.EU with a collection of techniques that facilitate acquisition of transferable skills crucial for tackling grand societal challenges. The three main areas are critical thinking, creativity, and interpersonal competence. The toolkit offers tips how to re-think course design to embed those areas of competence in the course. For each area, teachers will find exemplary methods that they can use in the classroom. Besides, they get tips how to address climate change in their classes. General advice on planning the class and formulating learning outcomes is offered at the beginning, before diving into particular skills and methods how to teach them.
This is the executive summary to our report on research & innovation structures, cultures and processes of the ENGAGE.EU alliance.
This is the executive summary to our report on research & innovation structures, cultures and processes of the ENGAGE.EU alliance.
Based on a mapping of existing frameworks, we develop our own ENGAGE.EU Innopreneurship Definition and an ENGAGE.EU Innopreneurial Mindset Framework. Both serve as a theoretical basis for our actions towards creating a fostering environment for innopreneurs.
This document is composed of four main sections: introduction, survey analysis, proposed methodology, and conclusion. The survey analysis is divided into two subsections: a quantitative subsection and a qualitative subsection, where the commonalities and differences between the partners are analyzed. Finally, two annexes are proposed.
Report: Green Mobility
The phrase “Green mobility” sounds like an oxymoron, as the two notions seem to be opposed at first glance. While mobility is usually understood as a set of movements relative to human activity, it seems at odds with today’s environmental imperatives that we are all aware of. Therefore, the notion of green mobility invites us to consider new forms of mobility and rethink our practices at all levels and in a sectional way.
The report aims to provide an overview of the coverage offered on key societal change drivers by the research activities carried out at ENGAGE.EU’s partner universities. Using the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as the key drivers of societal change, in line with the UN and EU approach, the mapping has been accomplished by each partner on research outputs/publications (2015-2020), on research centres and on nationally and internationally funded research projects under way. The report highlights that the research activities across the ENGAGE.EU Consortium tend to converge around three major SDGs: No. 8 (decent work and economic growth); No. 3 (good health and well-being); and No. 16 (peace, justice and strong institutions). The report also shows that amongst the most important and emerging research topics are digitalization and sustainability.
The target of this report is to summarize this analysis and comparison of the quality management mechanisms as well as to map good practices concerning quality management mechanisms at members’ institutions. It also serves as a foundation for further discussion on good practices within the task group to be implemented in the Alliance.
In this report a set of key competences is proposed that ENGAGE.EU learners need in facing the societal challenges of today and the future. Different existing models of key competences are discussed and the suggested ENGAGE.EU approach for key competences follows an existing integrative reference framework for sustainability academic programs. Based on that framework seven key competences for ENGAGE.EU are described as the starting point of the ENGAGE.EU Framework for learning.