CHARM-EIGHT aims to deepen, intensify and expand the effectiveness of the existing CHARM-EU Alliance to advance the higher education transformation process towards full ‘European Universities’ and increase its impact. The deepening and intensification takes place through activities which align to the five specific objectives: • Implement the innovative governance and management model of the alliance. • Consolidate and extend the innovative educational model in joint programmes and micro-credentials at various levels (bachelor, master, doctoral). • Build the CHARM-EU culture and the conditions to build a multicultural environment possible within an inter-institutional, intercultural, transdisciplinary inclusive and sustainable campus, where digitalization, mobility and multilingualism are key elements. • Generate internal transformation built upon the innovation and results of the current projects, networking and professional development. • Expand transferability, external cooperation, and partnerships, at all levels, local, national, European, and global. The Alliance of University of Barcelona, Trinity College Dublin, Utrecht University, Eötvös Loránd University, and University of Montpellier will be expanded with: Abo Akademi University, Julius-Maximilians University Würzburg, and Hochschule Ruhr West. University of Bergen formally joins the alliance in 2023. More than 10.000 students will benefit from an innovative transdicisplinary, intercultural teaching and learning environment and will be better prepared for the future through a wide range of activities and mobility. More than 4000 staff will benefit from the innovative, transdisciplinary and intercultural work environment focused on SDG’s to tackle real challenges and several professional development activities (including mobility) and internal transformation actions that will allow them to transform their day-to-day work. Local and regional stakeholders and society will benefit been part of the innovative, transdisciplinary CHARM-EU new phase 2022-2026.