FORTHEM – Fostering Outreach within European Regions, Transnational Higher Education and Mobility – is an alliance of Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Université de Bourgogne, Jyväskylän Yliopisto, Uniwersytet Opolski, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Latvijas Universitāte and Universitat de València. Its main target is to reach a significant increase in the quality, attractiveness and European dimension of education and to maximize mobility and European credit transfer. By 2022, FORTHEM will implement a joint “Transnational Higher Education Strategy”, ensuring that all partners will• establish common administrative structures• set up FORTHEM Digital Academy for virtual and blended mobility• implement innovative forms of short- and long-term mobility; among them new joint degrees, a model for simulating EU decision-making, and FORTHEM Campus (joint programme on rotating host campuses).• remove barriers to mobility and harmonize structures and processes,• introduce the ‘European student card’ and ‘ERASMUS without paper’,• set up interdisciplinary FORTHEM Labs to work out research-based solutions to European challenges such as Diversity and Migration, Experiencing Europe, Multilingualism in School and Higher Education, Food Science, Digital Transformation• enhance outreach activities such as bringing Europe into classrooms, professional support for volunteer engagement, an internship placements network, and multidisciplinary business project courses.FORTHEM activities will have a long-term impact: Generated outputs and best practices can be replicated in other higher education institutions. The mobilities, training modules and projects will have impact on the personal and professional careers of our students, staff and non-university partners. Additionally, working out innovative solutions in FORTHEM Labs will have impact on the regional and national levels and improve mutual understanding and citizen development in very different parts of Europe.
The main goal is to reach a significant increase in the quality, attractiveness and European dimension of education and to maximize mobility and European credit transfer. FORTHEM works diligently to implement the “knowledge square” in the respective regions, to enhance innovative, student-centred pedagogies, and to ensure that multidisciplinarity, multiculturality and multilingualism are substantial features of education, research and innovation.
FORTHEM – Fostering Outreach within European Regions, Transnational Higher Education and Mobility – is an alliance of Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Université de Bourgogne, Jyväskylän Yliopisto, Uniwersytet Opolski, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Latvijas Universitāte and Universitat de València. FORTHEM represents a large university community with a strong willingness to integrate everyone: working FOR THEM means to work for every student and for every staff member.
<< Background >> FORTHEM – Fostering Outreach within European Regions, Transnational Higher Education and Mobility – is an alliance of Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Université de Bourgogne, Jyväskylän Yliopisto, Uniwersytet Opolski, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Latvijas Universitāte and Universitat de València. FORTHEM represents a large university community with a strong willingness to integrate everyone: working FOR THEM means to work for every student and for every staff member. << Objectives >> The main goal is to reach a significant increase in the quality, attractiveness and European dimension of education and to maximize mobility and European credit transfer. FORTHEM works diligently to implement the “knowledge square” in the respective regions, to enhance innovative, student-centred pedagogies, and to ensure that multidisciplinarity, multiculturality and multilingualism are substantial features of education, research and innovation. << Implementation >> FORTHEM organised its activities under three “Missions”: Mobility, Outreach and Labs. The foundation work of these Missions, including the most promising of the many piloted activities, form the basis for our Transnational Higher Education Strategy. By implementing systemic cooperation, serving students, staff, and researchers from different countries and disciplines, FORTHEM has made a huge step towards building a stronger, more cohesive and resilient European Higher Education Area. << Results >> •Transnational Higher Education Strategy, Part: Core values, missions, main goals •Pilots with different forms of mobility: FORTHEM Campus, Team Teaching, Summer Schools, Joint degree programmes •FORTHEM Digital Academy: alliance-wide online learning platform•FORTHEM Labs: multidisciplinary knowledge-creating communities that address topics of high societal relevance •Pilots for Civic Engagement Projects •Internship network with schools and organizations in the FORTHEM regions