Developing joint innovative teaching initiatives

Two years into the ERUA alliance collaboration, we are still struggling to reach our goal of co-creating 15 innovative join teaching initiatives. Not because it has been difficult to find students who wish to participate, nor because it has been difficult to find teachers, who like the idea. In this workshop we wish to explore the reasons for this difficulty. To do so, we will present and invite to the discussion of some of the challenges and dilemmas, we have come to learn about, as both project-organizers and project-‘doers’.
The challenges as such are diverse. However, so far, they have had less to do with e.g. language barriers or cultural differences, than with organizational barriers; the place of teaching within academia; and overall conditions for Reform-university lines of thinking. The workshop is an invitation to discuss these matters collectively, to seek out positive trajectories for moving forward.