Discover the Teaching Innovation Lab
The Circle U. Teaching and Innovation Lab (CU.til) is an arena for knowledge-based pedagogical innovation and the development of evidence-based educational practices (EBE), gathering both academic and technical expertise. Promoting student-centred learning, quality assurance and a learning outcomes approach, the key missions of the CU.til are to improve the educational status quo, to enhance student learning and to contribute to the professional development of academic staff.
Collaborative Hybrid Circle U. - for inclusion, flexibility and internationalization (HybridCU)
This Seed Funding project, initiated by staff from Centres for Teaching and Learning (CTL) and under the umbrella of the CU.til, brings together expertise of support staff, student fellows, and educators from six Circle U. universities to support teaching staff in implementing hybrid formats. HybridCU focuses on hybrid teaching as a sustainable, innovative solution for intensifying the international and interdisciplinary exchange and collaboration among students and staff of Circle U. partners.
Outputs of the project
We are glad to present you the developed resources that can be used by educators, support staff, and students:
- Download the Guidelines on Hybrid Teaching and Learning: Insights from the Circle U. Alliance (preprint version)
- Download the preliminary Survey results on educators´experience with hybrid teaching
- Check the Training workshop materials "Hybrid teaching across borders: from ideas to practice" (recording of best-practice inputs, case studies, useful links and tips). Notice: to enter the page you should put guest access key "hybrid" under "Guest access" (not the self-enrolment section!)
- More about the HybridCU Project.
Latest on the CU.til
Offers
Events
CU.til Week: Innovate Your Teaching with Us!
Circle U. Model United Nations on Artificial Intelligence
Hybrid teaching across borders: from ideas to practice
The CU.til Guide
This brochure is a culmination of a collaborative effort stemming from the discussions initiated during CU.til's kick-off meeting on February 1 and 2, 2024 in Louvain-la-Neuve, UCLouvain. Crafted through the invaluable contributions of diverse stakeholders, it serves as a tangible statement to CU.til’s foundational principles.
It contains the cornerstone elements of CU.til – a compendium of its missions, values, and strategic endeavors envisioned to propel us towards our collective aspirations in the years to come.
Meet the team
Academic Director
Benoît Raucent
- Academic Director
- UCLouvain
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Professor
Academic Chairs
Assoc. Prof. Nevena Buđevac
- Academic Chair
- University of Belgrade
Assoc. Prof. Nevena Buđevac
- Academic Chair
- University of Belgrade
Nevena M. BuÄ‘evac is Associate professor at the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Education where she teaches different subjects related to psychology of education (such as Educational psychology, Strategies of successful learning, Collaboration between teachers and parents). She has extensive experience from projects related to education. Her main research interests are related to learning and developmental processes through peer interaction in school context and students’ reading literacy development.
Contact details
nevena.budjevac@uf.bg.ac.rs
Faculty of Education
University of Belgrade
Prof. Dr. Stephan Breidbach
- Academic Chair
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Prof. Dr. Stephan Breidbach
- Academic Chair
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Prof. Dr. Stephan Breidbach holds a PhD in Foreign Language Pedagogy and is a trained secondary teacher of English, Social Studies/History, and Drama. He heads the English Language Education unit and currently serves as Director of the Professional School of Education at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. His research focuses on CLIL, teacher/learner identities, foreign language teaching policies, and sociocultural contexts of language education. He is involved in several international research projects. He works with the Circle U. TENet group aiming for sustainable educational innovation in initial teacher education across Circle U. based on international mobility formats and research-driven professional learning.
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Faculty of Languages and Literatures
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Dr. Sonja Buchberger
- Academic Chair
- University of Vienna
Dr. Sonja Buchberger
- Academic Chair
- University of Vienna
Sonja Buchberger has been team lead of faculty development at the University of Vienna since 2021. In May 2024, she was appointed academic chair of the Teaching Innovation Lab in the European University Alliance Circle U. National and international teaching assignments (UK, Switzerland, Germany). In 2013, she was awarded her doctoral degree in Social Anthropology from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. Prior to that, she studied Arabic Studies, Islamic Studies and Development Studies at the University of Vienna.
Areas of responsibility at the CTL: Team lead, development of programmes supporting faculty to develop and professionalise their teaching, editorial board member and author in the Infopool better teaching (univie.ac.at), responsibility for the UNIVIE Teaching Awards, workshops and consultations in different areas (Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, teaching and career development, teaching portfolio & teaching statement, teaching with discussions, teaching academic reading, diversity and inclusion, feedback, teaching in the science lab).
Prior to that, from 2014 onwards, she was director of various programs (Basic qualification for staff new to teaching, coaching, workshop series, on demand, tailor-made offers (in German), certificate program Teaching Competence Plus) and developed a MOOC (massive open online course) on inclusive teaching in higher education (in German).
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Center for Teaching and Learning
University of Vienna
Prof. Filippo Chiarello
- Filippo Chiarello
- University of Pisa
Prof. Filippo Chiarello
- Filippo Chiarello
- University of Pisa
Filippo Chiarello is currently an Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) at the School of Engineering, University of Pisa. He teaches Design and Innovation at the master’s degrees of Engineering Management and Data Science. His research focuses on natural language processing techniques for studying technological innovation and HR-related phenomena. He is responsible for faculty development for his institution.
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School of Engineering, DESTEC
University of Pisa
Dr. Jelena Dzakula
- Academic Chair
- King’s College London
Dr. Jelena Dzakula
- Academic Chair
- King’s College London
Jelena joined King’s in 2020 as a Lecturer in Digital Media and Communication. She previously worked at LSE as a Fellow, at the University of Westminster as an Associate Lecturer, and at Ofcom as a Policy Advisor. She has been lecturing for over a decade and has won multiple awards for her contributions in this area. Jelena has conducted research for and advised European Commission, RISJ, University of Oxford, Food Standards Agency, and a number of start-ups, consultancies and think-tanks.
Jelena holds a PhD in Media Policy from the University of Westminster, a Master’s degree from the same University, and a Bachelor’s degree in Linguistic and Literature from the University of Belgrade, Serbia.
Jelena specialises in digital media and communications, with a special focus on regulatory and policy innovations. Currently she is conducting research into the use of artificial intelligence in higher education, and also looks at governance innovations when it comes to digital technologies.
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Senior Lecturer in Digital Media and Communication
King’s College London
Prof. Nicoline Frølich
- Academic Chair
- University of Oslo
Prof. Nicoline Frølich
- Academic Chair
- University of Oslo
Professor Nicoline Frølich is political scientist and has specialised in higher education studies. She is the director of LINK at the University of Oslo. Nicoline came to LINK from NIFU – Nordic Centre for Studies in Innovation, Research and Education in 2022.
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LINK – Centre for Learning, Innovation & Academic Development
University of Oslo
Prof. Mariam Haspekian
- Academic Chair
- Université Paris Cité
Prof. Mariam Haspekian
- Academic Chair
- Université Paris Cité
Mariam Haspekian is Professor in Educational Sciences at University Paris Cité, and director of the EDA laboratory from September 2024.
She has been a mathematics teacher since 1997 then researcher in mathematics education since 2007. In 2011, she joined Descartes University, where she directed the Bachelor of Education for 8 years.
Throughout her career, she has taught a wide range of didactic/mathematics subjects from bachelor/master students in education to secondary school mathematics-teachers and teacher trainers.
Her research focuses on teaching practices in mathematics and the integration of technology in mathematics teaching. She has participated in several international research projects and training programs such as the MOOC of the ICMI Commission dedicated to research in math-education.
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SHS, Department of Sciences of Education
University Paris Cité
Prof. Min Reuchamps
- Academic Chair
- UCLouvain
Prof. Min Reuchamps
- Academic Chair
- UCLouvain
Min Reuchamps is professor of political science at the Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain). His teaching and research interests include federalism and multi-level governance, democratic innovations and transformations, participatory and deliberative methods, as well as relations between language(s) and politics. He has been involved in the development of several MOOCs for the EdX platform which UCLouvain is a partner. He is an Academic chair in the European Alliance, Circle U., focusing on pedagogical innovation as a member of the Circle U. Teaching and Innovations Lab (CU.til).
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Faculty of Economic, Social and Political Sciences and Communication (ESPO)
Université Catholique de Louvain
Dr. Christina Richardson
- Academic Chair
- King's College London
Dr. Christina Richardson
- Academic Chair
- King's College London
Christina Richardson is Senior Lecturer in Language Education within the School of Education, Communication and Society where she works as a teacher educator, contributing to a range of language-related programmes. Her research interests, include teacher identity, decolonising the curriculum, and inclusive practices for learners with English as an Additional Language and those with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities. She is leading an anti-racism in Initial Teacher Education Working group for the School’s Post-Graduate Certificate in Education programme. She is Editor-in-Chief of the EAL Journal, published by the National Association for Language Development in the Curriculum.
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School of Education, Communication and Society
Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
King's College London
Knut Augedal
- Member
- University of Oslo
Knut Augedal
- Member
- University of Oslo
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Senior Adviser
University of Oslo
Prof. Christiane Dalton Puffer
- Member
- University of Vienna
Prof. Christiane Dalton Puffer
- Member
- University of Vienna
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University of Vienna
christiane.dalton-puffer@univie.ac.at
Wolfgang Deicke
- Member
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Wolfgang Deicke
- Member
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Wolfgang Deicke is a social scientist and the head of bologna.labs, the cross-faculty development laboratory for innovative teaching and learning formats at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. He is also a member of the Accreditation Commission (akko) of the German Association for Academic Development.
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Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Prof. Miguel Souto Lopez
- Member
- UCLouvain
Prof. Miguel Souto Lopez
- Member
- UCLouvain
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Professor
UCLouvain
Alessandra Meoni
- Member
- University of Pisa
Alessandra Meoni
- Member
- University of Pisa
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University of Pisa
Sylvestre Miget
- Member
- Université Paris Cité
Sylvestre Miget
- Member
- Université Paris Cité
Director of the Teaching Innovation Division at Université Paris Cité
Anne Mette Mørcke
- Member
- Aarhus University
Anne Mette Mørcke
- Member
- Aarhus University
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Centre Director for Educational Development
Laura Schilow
- Member
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Laura Schilow
- Member
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
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Responsible for the Q-program
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Régine Schlößer
- Member
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Régine Schlößer
- Member
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
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