Pedagogical development in RUN-EU
Our pedagogy is collaboratively developed with both teachers and students. We focus on student-centred learning and research-informed knowledge creation, ensuring students gain field-specific and transferrable future skills.
FAPSA ensures we deliver academic excellence and high quality learning experience to our students
FAPSA (Future and Advanced Pedagogy Skills Academy) develops RUN-EU pedagogical culture and supports the pedagogical design and implementation of our joint education offer. In addition, it promotes innovative pedagogical models that enhance student-centredness, trans-disciplinarity, mobility and address future skills.
Pedagogical guidance and competence development opportunities to RUN-EU teachers and staff include events such as annual Super Weeks, online workshops as well as other support materials.
FAPSA drives research-based pedagogical innovations which are built on assessing learning, collecting learning analytics and measuring learning and teaching experiences.
The Central FAPSA is supported by Institutional FAPSAs in each RUN-EU alliance institution to drive and promote pedagogical development. Institutional FAPSAs play a crucial role in enhancing the teaching and learning capacities of all RUN-EU members, ensuring each institution is equipped for their role as pedagogical leaders and developers.
Cultivating a Collaborative and Inclusive Learning Community for Future Skills
Building on collaboration, openness, and wellbeing
- Making space for collaboration and supporting everyone’s involvement in the community
- Promoting equality, diversity, and inclusivity guides, what we do in our pedagogical community
- Being open to sharing and learning from each other in our pedagogical community
Promoting innovation, research-informed knowledge generation, and multidisciplinary engagement
- Fostering creativity, resourcefulness, and curiosity in learning and teaching
- Ensuring that our learning and teaching are research-informed
- Providing opportunities to work in multidisciplinary and international teams
Implementing constructive alignement and student-centred teaching and learning
- Supporting students’ activity and agency in learning
- Following the principles of constructive alignment in our teaching
- Utilising assessment practices that support learning and focus on the learning processes
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RUN-EU Super Week
The RUN-EU Super Week is an annual event where staff get involved in the activities of the FAPSA pedagogical development programme. Super Weeks are co-organised by the institutional FAPSAs for teachers and staff members in the RUN-EU universities.
The aim is to co-create innovative pedagogical solutions and design thinking methodologies. The Super Week is targeted for all those involved in RUN-EU educational training activities as academic staff or are members of the institutional FAPSA.
Super Weeks are a valuable opportunity for peer learning. Furthermore, Super Weeks are an excellent opportunity to strengthen European cooperation and to network with colleagues from other RUN-EU universities.
Altogether four Super Weeks will be organised during the RUN-EU 2.0. The first Super Week took place at Howest, Belgium, in November 2024 and it gathered over 50 enthusiastic teachers and pedagogical developers together. The second Super Week at Häme University of Applied Sciences (HAMK), Finland, in November 2025 was a dive into well-being and collaboration with nearly 60 participants.
Schedule for upcoming Super Weeks:
- Superweek at NHL Stenden, the Netherlands, November 2026
- Superweek at HAMK, Finland, November 2027
RUN-EU Pedagogical Approaches Handbook
The RUN-EPA Pedagogical Approaches Handbook includes an overview of pedagogical development and peer learning initiatives for RUN-EU teachers and staff.
Pedagogical Guide for Teachers
European Programmes Academy – Exploratory Missions (EPA-Missions)
RUN-EU believes that the more we connect, share, interact and learn from each other, the more potential we can collectively create for the future. So RUN-EU decided to start a mission. A mission to co-create learning opportunities that are relevant, inclusive, and future ready. This is why we launched the RUN-EU EPA-Missions: 4-day co-creation events designed to generate ideas for interdisciplinary learning opportunities based on regional challenges that shape our collective future.
One EPA-Mission was implemented at each RUN-EU institution in different thematic domains (see RUN-EU EPA-Missions Schedule and Approach ) with the goal to empower students, staff and local stakeholders to connect, collaborate and grow – together!
EPA-Missions did not only inspire ideas.
- They fostered expertise in the design of learning opportunities.
- They connected RUN-EU and its regions. Building bridges that matter.
- They changed perspectives, empowering students as equal partners.
- They laid the foundation for long-lasting cooperation between the RUN-EU partners, e.g., in research, staff & student exchange or mentorship programmes.
EPA-Missions are more than events. They connect the local with the European, the personal with the institutional, the learner with the region. They build connections that last.
Do you want to know more about the EPA-Missions? Feel free to reach out to run-eu@fhv.at.
Get involved in co-creating new learning opportunities within RUN-EU
We offer opportunities for teachers, students, researchers and regional stakeholders to actively participate in co-creating new learning opportunities within RUN-EU. If you are interested to join, please contact the RUN-EU Office in your own institution.