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 2019 Thematic Peer Groups is available in this document.

Summary reports on the lessons learnt by the Thematic Peer Groups from 2017 and 2018 are available via the following links:

 

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

  • 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... 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! (Mirosław Kaźmie... Read more

Expert voices

  • 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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