EU University Alliances: Problematics in line with DECART research activities
Based on the highly acclaimed speech of French President Emmanuel Macron at the Sorbonne University in Paris in 2017, the concept of European Universities was developed by EU Member States, higher educational institutions, and student organizations.
50 European Universities clusters have been created recently, comprising 430 Universities in total. They are experimenting and testing new models of deeper cooperation, in which the linkage, coherence and adequacy of two or more curriculum is primordial. Initial analysis shows that curriculum transformation will be needed.
Sharing curriculum architectures and their components among institutions is a medium for discussion and comparability, as investigated in the DECART project. The DECART Curriculum canvas is here a key. Deeper cooperation between higher educational institutions to align their curriculum structures and programme outcomes could engender more joint curriculum design and development, and thus favour greater international and interdisciplinary mobility. ‘Building bridges for effective European Higher Education institions cooperation’ to facilitate deeper transnational cooperation is now an imperative for curriculum adequacy and resilience.