Karl-Erik Karu

TThe EuroTeQ 2030 is the next stage in the European Universities Alliance to deepen, expand and intensify the existing cooperation. Eight partners propose an unprecedented approach to collaborative education that not only brings together various countries but also a broad coalition of stakeholders in industry, society, and both academic and non-academic education. With our partnership, we will enhance today’s engineering study programmes with new core competencies, transversal skills, design methodologies, and structured links to relevant stakeholders. New ideas will occur from merging different perspectives, and new groups of learners will enrich the diversity in the classroom, which leads to innovation. Participating in EuroTeQ initiatives shall train learners to find answers to societal challenges, human needs, and real-world questions in a collaborative and responsible approach. We strongly believe that this European network will foster and strengthen European values by enabling young citizens to meet their peers and inviting the entire university family to make connections across Europe

The EuroTeQ Engineering University builds on the belief that societal developments of recent years call for strong University Alliances to make the Knowledge Square of Education, Research, Innovation and Service to Society a reality and its impact a benefit to Europe and beyond. As six leading Universities of Science and Technology, spread across Europe, situated in innovation eco-systems and with great collaboration experience, we are equipped to introduce a paradigm shift in the engineering education of the future, aspiring responsible value co-creation in technology. In three years' time all these measures will have notably promoted the cooperation between the individual Partner Universities, across faculties and central units. It will have significantly improved the seamless mobility of students and faculty, who have to a great extend joined in the pilots. The joint efforts of the Partner Universities aim to develop and integrate training formats that expand the perspective to non-academic target groups and professionals, which will diversify the skills and competence base of Europe. Bridging the gap between different groups in society will enhance social permeability. The students participating in the new formats of the EuroTeQ Engineering University will have gained a deeper understanding of the specific qualifications of other professional groups, especially non-academics, international fellow students and experienced practitioners. They will have acquired multilingual skills necessary for the interaction with non-academics involved. The developments will have provided already notable impulses for extended eco-systems beyond the Partner Universities for collaborative education in technology-oriented occupational fields.