LEARNING & TEACHING PAPER #22 - Challenges and enablers in designing transnational

To illustrate this, the European Strategy for Universities (2022)2 underlines the importance of higher education institutions engaging in transnational cooperation as well as the development and delivery of joint degrees as a way to boost the competitiveness and excellence of these institutions and to collectively combat global challenges. [...] The European Universities alliances facilitate the collective pooling of TJEP resources and expertise and foster the competitiveness of higher education institutions internationally, in line with the goals of the European Education Area and European Research Area.16 In the same vein, engaging in TJEP provides institutions with the opportunity to learn from one another, and thus enhances institutio. [...] The experiences from the development of the programme led to the creation of a joint bachelor’s fact sheet,33 presenting the main characteristics of the Una Europa joint bachelor’s degree, as well as information on how to create a joint internal QA strategy, how to translate overarching educational principles in the programme and courses, and how to accredit a joint programme. [...] Acting on such recommendations would support European higher education institutions and their staff in pursuing the objectives, and ultimately achieving the goals, set out by the European Commission in the European Strategy for Universities (2022) and the 2024 work programme, in particular with respect to the joint European degree. [...] In terms of the main challenges linked to the communication and interaction with the academic staff and peers at their host universities, the students mentioned: • cultural gaps in terms of ways of speaking and interacting with fellow students and professors, in particular between Eastern and Western Europe; • employment or internship opportunities being advertised only in the language of the host.