CEU has nearly three decades of experience in transforming higher education systems, building capacity in teaching and learning, and promoting teaching development. The Yehuda Elkana Center continues this long-tradition of collaborative partnership with higher education institutions, foundations, government bodies, NGOs, and individual colleagues. These collaborations strengthen institutional capacities, develop university leaders, foster cultures of quality, support teaching excellence, enhance internationalization, and promote open society and democratic practices. These initiatives take many institutional forms, including within the CIVICA university alliance, Horizon and Erasmus+ frameworks, the Open Society Foundation, and bilateral partnerships.
Please browse some of the many examples of present and past collaborations. Contact us at elkanacenter@ceu.edu to be in touch.
Teaching Development, Inclusive and Technologically Enhanced Learning, and Capacity Building in Teaching & Learning
Current partnerships include the CIVICA Teaching Development and the OSUN Developing Teaching Professionals projects. Recently completed projects focusing on technology and inclusion include AI Aware Universities (a grassroots collaboration between students and employees on AI), the Inclusive Teaching Handbook OER, the Erasmus+ BELONG project on inclusion and belonging, as well as SensiClass project on teaching sensitive topics. Supporting student-centered learning was the focus of an early collaboration with the European Students Union in the PASCL project, internationalization through teaching development in the Erasmus+ IMPACT project, while strengthening teaching development more generally was the focus of the Erasmus+ ERGP project.
Higher Education and Cross-Sector Policy Collaborations
Innovative projects on enhancing SDGs, such as environmental sustainability and healthy cities are the focus of the current Horizon RISTANC and Erasmus+ HealthyU projects. The Center has promoted expanded access to university education through the Matura Support and FOCUS programs, bolstered academic freedom and open society values, supported internationalization, efficiency of university operations, evaluating masters programs, reviewed the European Quality Assurance Register, and supported country-wide educational reforms in Georgia and Myanmar.