Think and Do Tank on the Future of Higher Education

The Circle U. Think and Do Tank engages with students and external stakeholders with the aim to influence the policy agenda on higher education.

White Paper

In its first White Paper, the Think and Do tank shares an initial joint understanding of its mission, its way of working and its main development strategy.

Shaping the Future of Higher Education in a Changing World

Mapping of pedagogical innovations

Mapping of pedagogical innovations will pave the way for wider collaboration and sharing of good practice. To begin with, we consider innovation in sustainable education under four categories, the 4Is.

Mapping of pedagogical innovations

Think & Do Tank Café

The Circle U. Think & Do Tank Cafés will gather professors, students and admin staff from the nine Circle U. universities to exchange and share best practices in the field of teaching and learning in Higher Education. A large part of the discussions will be devoted to the transformation of curricula and teaching practices in higher education, with a strong focus on pedagogical innovation.

The Cafés will take the shape of hybrid workshops. Progressively, these meetings will help build a network of innovators in pedagogy willing to engage in continuous professional development through a community of practices.

Resources from Circle U. Learning and Teaching Centres

Because Circle U. universities are innovative and resourceful, professionals working at Learning and Teaching centres at the different member universities have shown a keen interest in sharing their knowledge, experience and tools within the alliance. Thanks to the innovators’ network that the Think and Do Tank Cafés will progressively build, this collaborative space will be fed up paving the way toward an international mutualisation of resources, training and practices in pedagogical innovation in higher education.

Academic Chairs

  • Lisbeth M. Brevik, University of Oslo
  • Min Reuchamps, UCLouvain
  • Veljko Mijušković, University of Belgrade
  • Gabriel Reedy, King's College London
  • Grégoire Borst, Université Paris Cité
  • Anne Enderwitz, HU Berlin
  • Marco Abate, University of Pisa
  • Susan Wright, Aarhus University 

About the Think and Do Tank

The Circle U. Think and Do Tank engages with students and external stakeholders with the aim to influence the policy agenda on higher education.

At the same time, it very much focuses on its «do» mission and seeks to contribute to transforming curricula and teaching methods towards sustainable education within the alliance itself, not only by providing courses on sustainable development, but also by ensuring that education will have a major impact on the sustainability of our societies.

Sustainable education means finding innovative and creative ways of teaching and learning, focusing on interdisciplinary knowledge and taking into account the contribution of students. The Think and Do Tank will promote a quality learning environment and academic success for students by imagining, experimenting and disseminating new ways of teaching and learning.

Multilingualism, being an important topic for our alliance, the Think and Do Tank will work to identify obstacles related to the ambition of Europeans speaking two foreign languages; based on the findings we will develop a dedicated project, including seeking co-funding, with the aim of addressing the obstacles identified.

Challenges related to IT and education, whether it is the digital skills gap or the future of digital education, will also be at the forefront of the critical reflection.

Published Jan. 3, 2024 2:12 PM - Last modified Feb. 6, 2024 10:01 AM