Working Groups

EUTOPIA MORE has three main ambitions:

1. Management

The objective of Work Package (WP) 1 is to provide efficient management of the EUTOPIA MORE project. This objective will be delivered through three specific objectives, driving three sub-WPs:

• WP1.1 Project Management – to effectively manage the EUTOPIA MORE project, ensuring that all WPs are delivered on time and to budget.
• WP1.2 Governance of the EUTOPIA Alliance – to ensure functional and robust governance procedures for EUTOPIA and to provide an ambitious strategy for the long-term sustainability and delivery of the alliance.
• WP1.3 Management of the EUTOPIA Alliance – to ensure effective alliance management and successful implementation of the EUTOPIA strategy.

2. Facilitating Connectedness

The overall strategic objective of the WP is to enable the EUTOPIA alliance and its partner institutions to jointly undergo further institutional transformation driven by principles of sustainable development and fostering transition towards a green and digital Europe that is inclusive and resilient. We aim to empower our students, staff and partners to connect and come up with impactful activities in the field of teaching, research and outreach. Students themselves will be given the possibility to design, offer, and lead activities that will be channelled into other actions within the project. We enable EUTOPIA partner institutions to jointly undergo further institutional transformation in a resilient manner, connecting communities at various levels.

Two specific objectives are identified and organised in two sub work-packages:

• WP2.1. Alliance’s Development. Ensuring all the activities are aligned with the 10-year objectives across all initiatives and projects and integration of new partners. This will involve coordination, experimental creative growth and harmonisation.
• WP2.2. Methodology for Connectedness. Building capacity to enhance connectedness within EUTOPIA, and to enable partner institutions to jointly undergo further institutional development and transformation in a harmonised and cooperative manner driven by principles of sustainable development, also based on student engagement, and the focus on Human Resources.

3. Empowering Knowledge 

Embodying the principles of openness, Connected Communities (CC) will be leveraged as inclusive, inter-institutional platforms which use a co-creative approach to provide the best possible environment to students and researchers to promote critical thinking and transferable knowledge and skills on interdisciplinary topics of global relevance and societal impact. With this, EUTOPIA directly inspires the further roll-out and successful development of the European Higher Education and Research Areas. It explicitly aims to be a driving force for continuous innovation. The work package provides the condition for the emergence and sustaining of successful Connected Communities operating as built-in accelerators for curriculum development, research potential and outreach to society (e.g. teaching innovation, learning opportunities, societal challenges and thematically linked stakeholders), in all partner universities for years to come.

Within this work package, we aim at:

• providing support to the emergence and sustainability of Connected Communities (WP3.1. Set-up and Lifecycle of the Connected Communities)
• as well as their implementation on the student and educational level (WP3.2. Sharing Knowledge, Connected Learning)
• and at the level of research activities and the researchers' communities (WP3.3. Generating Knowledge-Connected Research).

4. Connecting Ecosystems

The work package aims to refine, further develop, and implement the successful models and activities tested during the pilot phase (Place-Making", "Promoting Inclusion and Equal Societies",  "Open to the World"). Through these efforts, we aspire to be recognised as trusted partners by a distinct group of external collaborators, establishing a robust foundation of confidence on which to build. With the insights of these trusted partners, we will formulate strategies for more systematic external engagement with a broader array of partners, while continually adapting our activities in response to new inputs, external circumstances, and innovative concepts.

In ten years, our strategies to engage with external partners will have broadly been implemented. EUTOPIA will be recognised as a leading European University that contributes to solving societal challenges by working collaboratively with external partners at local, regional, national, and international levels. 

WP4 – Connecting Ecosystems main objective is to tackle the engagement with external stakeholders. These levels correspond to sub-Work Packages:

• WP4.1. From Local to Global Engagement Strategy
• WP4.2. Local/Regional Engagement
• WP4.3. European Engagement
• WP4.4. Europe Beyond the EU
• WP4.5. Global Engagement. 

5. Providing Tools

The overall objective is to consider the role of shared tools and services in EUTOPIA that can be activated to support the specific needs of the EUTOPIA alliance, as well as individual projects and initiatives delivered by EUTOPIA, including other work packages in this application. EUTOPIA Shared Services must consider the needs of EUTOPIA’s end-users (students, staff & society) in achieving their EUTOPIAn goals and ambitions. We will work with the individual EUTOPIA partners to identify which services and/or activities will be led directly from the EUTOPIA office and facilitate the transfer of activities to EUTOPIA. Furthermore, we will promote EUTOPIA and our values on our individual EUTOPIA partner campuses. As EUTOPIA matures, the EUTOPIA shared services will be delivered directly by the EUTOPIA central entity, working on behalf of alliance partners to deliver centralised EUTOPIA Shared Services.

WP5 – Providing tools is structured around four sub-Work-Packages:

• WP5.1. Tools for Engagement will focus on the coordination of WP5 and ensuring the continuous alignment of all activities with the overarching goals of EUTOPIA.
• WP5.2. Digital Transformation will be dedicated to the use of Digital Tools applied specifically to achieve goals related to Open Education and Open Science, in particular aligning with EU initiatives in these fields like Open Science agenda such as Open Science, Citizen Science, Open Educational Resources, Open Education Practice.
• WP5.3. Mobility will concentrate efforts on facilitating and diversifying mobility within EUTOPIA, including setting up a funding mechanism that supports the development of the Global Learning Communities.
• WP5.4. Visibility on Campuses will contribute to building a stronger EUTOPIA identity through increasing the visibility of EUTOPIA activities and initiatives among the internal and external community.

6. Impact & Dissemination

WP6 has three operational objectives:

• WP6.1. Develop communities internally and externally, engage stakeholders, identify impact opportunities through horizon scanning, integrate with other projects and activities by creating expertise, and connect to communications. Train early-stage researchers for impact and science communication. This objective will be coordinated through a Strategy to Deliver and Maximise Impact.
• WP6.2. Strengthen the partner universities' science/knowledge diplomacy abilities and the Alliance. The priority is to place science diplomacy within the alliance’s impact activities. The universities play a potential diplomatic role by advocating for the scientific knowledge they impart. EUTOPIA members strive to build relationships with local knowledge ecosystems (see WP 4.1). EUTOPIA will participate actively in science diplomacy as a privileged way to reach geopolitical and societal impact by linking scientific practices and foreign policy.
• WP6.3. The Communications and Dissemination workflow will focus on attractiveness in coherence with the brand-building process. It will provide a comprehensive overview of EUTOPIA’s experiences in the internal and global scene. 

Disclaimer

EUTOPIA MORE is co-funded by the European Union under Grant Agreement No. 101089699. Views and opinions expressed are, however, those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them