Background and Introduction

Background

Unite! The European University Alliance aims to deepen and enhance the educational collaboration activities between the nine partner universities and especially in the field of international joint programmes (JP hereafter) leading to double, multiple or joint degrees.

The purpose of this Unite! Joint Programme On-line toolkit is to support and help the administrators and academics in the development of international joint programmes. In addition, there are areas of expertise which are linked to JPs but are covered more in detail by other Unite! Communities for ex. quality assurance (Community 2), multiculturalism and multilingualism (Community 4 expert group 4.3), Diversity, Inclusion and Well-being (Community 3).

The handbook chapters cover diverse topics from current EU education policy instruments to practical advice and guidelines on what to consider when designing and establishing a new JP or when updating the currently running JPs. Key supporting documents for ex. consortium agreement template, process maps of establishment of JPs etc. can be found here Documents and templates. The handbook is supported by the Joint Programme Design Filtering Tool to sort out and compare the rules/regulations between the partner universities.

We welcome feedback from users of this On-line Toolkit: you can find the "Feedback" buttons on the right side of every page.

Contact persons

The working group (Community 4: Expert group 4.2A) members, responsible for the creation of the handbook, supporting documents and Joint Programme Desing Filtering Tool, are experts in joint programmes and can be contacted for further information (current contact persons, updated 27.6.2024):