Learning & Teaching Thematic Peer Groups

The EUA Learning & Teaching Thematic Peer Groups gather a selected group of EUA member universities each year to discuss and explore practices and lessons learnt in organising and implementing learning and teaching at the institutional level. They also identify good practices on the given theme. The groups are designed to strengthen a bottom-up approach in engaging European universities, to foster community building, and to complement the European Learning & Teaching Forum.

Further information about the 2022 Thematic Peer Groups is available in this document.

Summary reports on the lessons learnt by previous Thematic Peer Groups are available via the following links:

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The groups’ work feeds into EUA’s ongoing policy work and debates on learning and teaching by providing direct feedback from an institutional perspective on the key challenges in the area, as well as recommendations. Based on the work of these groups, EUA issued a position paper that underlines the importance of learning and teaching as a core mission and responsibility of universities.

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Events

  • 2022 European Learning & Teaching Forum

    17 - 18 Feb 2022 Events online
    EUA has taken the decision to hold this year’s European Learning & Teaching Forum as an online event. Staff at the University of Deusto and EUA had been looking forward to an opportunity to meet in person and connect with both old and new colleagues and acquaintances; however, in view of the c... Read more

  • 2021 European Learning & Teaching Forum

    18 - 19 Feb 2021 Events Online
    Embedding and facilitating sustainability The European Learning & Teaching Forum is an EUA event that provides an opportunity for participants to meet and discuss developments in learning and teaching at European universities. The Forum builds on EUA’s work with its member universities on t... Read more

  • 2020 European Learning & Teaching Forum

    13 - 14 Feb 2020 Events Utrecht University
    University education has changed significantly in recent decades, and continues to do so, as the expectations of students, stakeholders and society towards universities evolve. This process is further influenced by universities’ diverse historical, disciplinary and regional backgrounds. The 2020 E... Read more

  • 2019 European Learning & Teaching Forum

    14 - 15 Feb 2019 Events University of Warsaw
    The 2019 European Learning & Teaching Forum ‘Towards successful learning: Controversies and common ground’ builds on the recognition that there is no one-size-fits-all solution for successful learning and teaching.   Photos of the forum are now available! (MirosÅ‚aw Kaźmierczak, â... Read more

  • 1st European Learning & Teaching Forum

    28 - 29 Sep 2017 Events University Pierre and Marie Curie (UPMC)
    The European Learning & Teaching Forum facilitated the exchange of experience on learning and teaching in changing learning landscapes. The European Learning & Teaching Forum was EUA’s new event that aimed to provide an opportunity for institutional representatives to meet and discuss dev... Read more

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Expert voices

  • Beyond snapshots of student performance: how to promote institutional assessment literacy

    20 January 2022

    Current assessment practices draw from long traditions, values and beliefs that are well rooted in higher education and, by default, mainly include summative, test-type final exams. This leads to a si...

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  • Education with and despite Covid-19: insights from the Hagen Manifesto on New Learning

    06 December 2021

    Universities must fundamentally address how they want to shape learning in the digital transformation. It is indisputable: digitisation is changing the way educational content is created, the formats ...

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  • Curriculum and assessment: it takes the two to tango

    15 November 2021

    High quality education subsumes a combination of well-designed curricula and learning assessment that is fit for purpose. Both are crucial to ensure student success. Institutions commonly invest signi...

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  • Acting for inclusion in digital learning

    11 January 2021

    When the Covid-19 pandemic broke out in Italy at the very beginning of the second semester of the 2019-2020 academic year, we faced the emergency of teaching under lockdown. The University of Modena a...

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  • Reimagining employability

    11 December 2020

    While higher education plays a crucial role in preparing students for future careers, employability extends beyond a narrow focus on jobs to the development of student attributes and skills that make ...

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  • Digital and green transitions: promoting sustainability in higher education

    10 December 2020

    The digital and environmental revolutions are sparking fundamental societal challenges – as well as opportunities. In the current Covid-19 context, the digitalisation of higher education has become ...

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  • Internationalisation: The challenge for teachers and students at home

    06 February 2020

    Within the dynamic international context of higher education, where the pressure of international rankings, increasing student numbers and the demand for globally employable graduates are prioritised,...

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  • Improving learning and teaching through mid-semester course feedback

    09 December 2019

    Universities collect a wide range of data to improve the quality of their learning and teaching. A large-scale Likert-type survey is a common method of data collection to inform changes at the institu...

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  • Developing the quality of student assessment systems

    18 November 2019

    The question of student assessment is an integral part of quality assurance in the European Higher Education Area. Standard 1.3 of the Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the European Hi...

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  • Enhancing Learning and Teaching Beyond Good Intentions

    21 February 2019

    In Europe, attention to higher education learning and teaching has been growing in recent years, both in policy and in practice.The 2018 Bologna Process Paris Communiqué devotes a whole section...

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  • Re-thinking language and communication skills in curriculum development

    18 February 2019

    In academia, we tend to agree that the purpose of higher education is to educate academic professionals who are prominent experts in their fields and disciplines. When looking at recent research one c...

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  • The need to re-think research-based education

    15 February 2019

    European universities have a proud heritage, not least inspired by the Humboldtian ideas of unity between research and education. For many universities in Europe, it is still a fact that research has ...

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  • Common ground in European learning and teaching

    14 February 2019

    For the past twenty years, the Bologna Process has provided a framework for European collaboration in higher education by promoting common degree structures and approaches to quality assurance, recogn...

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  • Keeping universities relevant through active learning

    14 February 2019

    All universities face challenges such as widening participation, more diverse student populations, and digitalisation, which all lead to the need to further develop pedagogical methods and ways of und...

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  • Evaluation of learning and teaching: the path to quality graduates, the change-makers of society

    05 February 2019

    Inspired by the Bologna Process and the European Higher Education Area, universities across the continent have been increasingly participating in international exchange programmes, developing and orga...

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  • The new professionalisation of the academic career in the context of the European Higher Education Area

    01 February 2019

    In today’s Europe, education systems are expected to be accountable and have tangible and transparent outcomes. They are also required to be in line with economic development, the labour market,...

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  • Valorising teaching, beyond our own higher education institution

    17 January 2019

    In the first minutes of his welcome speech in October 2018 for newly-appointed faculty members, KU Leuven Rector Luc Sels stated that “teaching and research are equally valued at KU Leuven.&rdqu...

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  • The first steps towards the continuous professional development of university teaching staff

    16 January 2019

    There are several reasons why teaching is not treated in the same way as research in the portfolios of teaching staff across European universities. While we perfect scientific research throughout our ...

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  • Building European networks to explore the evaluation of learning and teaching

    12 December 2018

    Towards the end of 2017 the Centre for Educational Development (CED) at Queen’s University in Belfast received funding from the university to support an assessment through a partnership project....

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  • ‘Be the person who makes the difference’: an Irish-French reflection on strong learning and teaching practice

    27 September 2017

    This fourth interview on learning and teaching practice is with Grace Neville, who will chair the closing plenary session capturing the outcomes and next steps after the European University Associatio...

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