This professional development course was offered to those interested in exploring how to integrate successfully digital environments and innovative pedagogies into Joint Programmes. The innovative feature of the training is its experiential and connectivist, project-based (learn-by-doing) approach. Experienced trainers from GO-DIJIP partner institutions gave participants the opportunity, through tasks and activities to be carried out during synchronous classes, to compare notes with each other and understand how best to adapt joint degree programmes, within an already set up and pre-existing educational system.

Dr. Giulia Palazzolo, the administrative manager at the University of Pavia of the EC2U Joint Masters, participated in the event. During the past few months, she has been monitoring carefully the various course modules, with the aim of providing the project with constantly updated tools and digital skills.

The leading speakers of the event counts Yann-Mael Bideau, policy officer at the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Education, Education, Youth, Sport, and Culture; Michael Gaebel, Head of the Higher Education Policy Unit of the European University Association (EUA), which represents more than 800 individual universities across Europe and 34 national university associations; and David Flacher, member of the EMACT steering committee and coordinator of the EPOG+ Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree.