Blended Intensive Programmes

Open call for partners to join our BIPs

New academic, communication and research competencies for the digital age

Objectives:

• Exchanging experience related to new developments introduced in the participants’ academic contexts in response to emerging challenges;
• Building on the partners’ expertise for better capitalising on the affordances of digital resources and for enhancing the effectiveness of educational processes, research and communication;
• Multidisciplinary networking, setting the basis for future exchanges of research outcomes, with a view to promoting the transfer of research outcomes to practice in the participants’ academic contexts and beyond the BIP partnership;
• Exploring the possibility of engaging in joint research and publication ventures;
• Deepening and consolidating transnational cooperation within and beyond the BIP partnership, in line with the EU’s agenda for the European Year of Skills 2023.

Description:

The programme builds on the organising team’s expertise of coordinating and conducting an Academic Development master programme for academics and researchers (EDU-RES – in its 17th year already), as well as on the collaborative work on European projects with a focus on evolving trends in academic communication.
The programme will cover three thematic areas:

• academic communication with a focus on the latest developments – challenges and opportunities in the digital age;
• research related aspects (methodological approaches, communicating research outcomes to various audiences, peer-reviewing and responding to reviewers, networking as support system);
• challenges and opportunities related to teaching via the medium of another language.

In addition, there will be sessions on critical thinking and creative thinking applied to academic research and education.