#PHEresponse to COVID-19
COVID-19 outbreak has dramatically shaken the global professional higher education sector creating a lot of challenges for teachers, students and institutions’ leadership.
The existing health crisis keeps on revolutionizing online learning, assessment and applications processes on a daily basis and has questioned how the applied research may be conducted in the times of uncertainty.
EURASHE in response to the situation launched a campaign ‘#PHEresponse to COVID-19′ where will share the best practices from institutions, interviews with our members’ leaders and opportunities to participate in our online events and activities.
COVID-19 outbreak has dramatically shaken the global professional higher education sector creating a lot of challenges for teachers, students, institutions’ leadership and the regions. To react to the existing health crisis EURASHE launched a platform to provide member institutions and associations with a weekly opportunity to exchange experiences and challenges in a more informal way. From 2020 May, EURASHE hosted seven PHE@Home Club meetings and discussed various emerging issues ranging from research students’ engagement to digital transformation, work-based learning and others.
After the last year’s success, the Club’s meetings are coming back in 2021 under a new name PHE Club. This year’s meetings will correspond to developments of the Coronavirus crisis, the European Commission’s agenda and programmes, EURASHE’s strategic priorities and agenda.
When? Fridays at 2.30 p.m.- 4.00 p.m. (CET)
Where? Zoom
Who can attend? EURASHE members only
| PHE Club 2021 | Zoom | |||||
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Speakers | Registration |
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19 February (Friday) |
2.30 p.m.- 4.00 p.m. CET | Funding opportunities |
Opportunities within the new set of EU-funded programmes Next Generation EU: what role for the PHE sector? Understanding the 2021-2027 long-term EU budget |
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| Next meetings will be announced in the upcoming weeks | |||||
In early April 2020, EURASHE launched the campaign ‘#PHEresponse to COVID-19′ where we have been sharing the best practices from higher education institutions, interviews with our members’ leaders and series of webinars under the title ‘PHE@Home Info Days’. Based on the campaign results and received feedback from the members, we see an emerging need for EURASHE to create a platform and provide member institutions and associations with a weekly opportunity to exchange experience and challenges in a more informal way.
PHE@Home Club is open once a week to all EURASHE members who want to share, learn, discuss and update themselves on how to respond in a systematic, structured and effective way to such challenges in the future thus keeping the quality standards high.
The themes of the weekly webinars will correspond to the biggest challenges experienced by professional higher education institutions and their institutional activities during the Coronavirus crisis. Through communication and cooperation, our members and experts will feed the discussions from challenges to major opportunities in the post-Covid for PHE institutions to progress, transform and make a considerable positive impact as the inevitable recession will provide huge demands for PHE courses.
Topics: every Friday will be announced the topic of the next week
When? 2.30 p.m.- 4.00 p.m. (CEST), every Friday from 12 June 2020
Where? Zoom
Who can attend? EURASHE members only
| June 2020 | Zoom | |||||
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Speakers | Registration |
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17 July (Friday) |
2.30 p.m.- 4.00 p.m. CEST | Digital institutional transformation & capacity development |
What does it mean digital transformation in practice for higher education institutions? Capacity building: digital staff literacy and (digital) leadership Looking to the future and European policies: EC Digital Education Action Plan |
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10 July (Friday) |
2.30 p.m.- 4.00 p.m. CEST | Students’ research engagement |
Institutional experience in the field of research in relation to COVID-19 Lessons learnt and missed opportunities Looking to the future: how COVID-19 may change research in general? Applied research vs traditional research as a response to the health crisis. What is the profile and skills of future student researchers? Creativity and curiosity as the main drivers of applied research International cooperation of students researchers |
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3 July (Friday) |
2.30 p.m.- 4.00 p.m. CEST | WBL: What is next? |
How did this crisis affect WBL? How prepared were you? What were the first most important first steps? How did you cope with it? How should we prepare in the future? Is the new reality affecting your position on local/regional level? How did and can new technology effectively support WBL in such crises? Did it affect scientific fields differently? What should be done on institutional/regional/national/international level? How do you expect EURASHE to support you? |
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26 June (Friday) |
2.30 p.m.- 4.00 p.m. CEST | Digital learning delivery |
What are the lessons we learned so far in digital teaching and learning? Which of the practices will remain for good? How we will move from emergency based digital learning to quality based digital learning? |
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19 June (Friday) |
2.30 p.m.- 4.00 p.m. CEST | Online assessment and exams |
What are the alternative assessment models that have been designed during the pandemic? What were the main difficulties and challenges of handling online exams? How HEIs have been solving them so far? What are the lessons for the future? |
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| 12 June (Friday) | 2.30 p.m.- 4.00 p.m. CEST | Mobility |
What are the challenges related to mobility that higher education institutions may face in the times of Coronavirus? What are the best practices and practical examples? Can online mobility replace physical mobility? What will happen to international programmes in the near future and other related issues. |
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PHE@Home Info Days is a part of the campaign which consists of the series of webinars on different topics, such as Future of skills, Work-based learning, Microcredentials, lessons learnt from COVID-19 and others.
The event will serve as a platform for a community discussion on the relevant issues, also it will provide an opportunity to discuss how the existing health crisis might affect the sector and what coordinated actions could be implemented in order to prevent any possible future harm. The webinars will take place in the same time framework as the postponed 30th Annual Conference but will not replace the event.
You can find the report of the webinars here.
| Tuesday 19 May 2020 | Zoom | |||
| 10.00 -11.15 (CEST) | EURASHE update for members (closed event, members only) | Register here | |
| 13.00-14.30 (CEST) | Masterclass „Future Skills and Future Universities“ | Register here | More information |
| 15.00-16.30 (CEST) | Discussion „PHE in the time of Coronavirus: threats and opportunities“ | Register here | More information |
| Wednesday 20 May 2020 | Zoom | |||
| 10.00 -11.30 (CEST) | Workshop „Smart E-quality @ Work-based learning“ | Register here | More information |
| 13.00-14.30 (CEST) | Workshop „Microcredentials in Higher Education: Enabling Future Flexible Learning Pathways“ | Register here | More information |