Partnerships for Innovation: Forward-Looking Projects - Higher Education

Expected Impact:

• Established European Leadership Academy, creating a European community of leadership practice, connecting leaders of higher education institutions in Europe for mutual learning, exchange of practices, and co-creation of innovative solutions to shared challenges.
• Increased leadership expertise enabling transformative change in the higher education sector in Europe.
• Facilitating higher education sector transformation in Europe based on transnational cooperation, academic freedom and other European approaches.
• Development of attractive and sustainable academic careers in higher education sector throughout the European Education Area.
• Inspiration for sustainable leadership models based on European values.

Objective:

The main objective of this action is to develop leadership capabilities enabling transformative change in the higher education sector in Europe. The changing geopolitical climate, societal challenges, technological advancement, new ways of teaching and learning, interaction with a wide range of stakeholders, the new level of depth and scope of European higher education cooperation, etc. require diverse leadership skills to navigate through ever-evolving challenges.

Scope:

• Developing and testing innovative leadership approaches, enabling leaders to guide their institutions through the green and digital transitions, advance innovative learning and teaching and develop sustainable academic careers. The approaches used in the programme should be exploratory, experiential, and action-oriented, ensuring that leaders develop practical capabilities through engagement with authentic institutional challenges.
• Shaping European leadership approaches based on European values and encourage academic freedom, sustainability, diversity and transnational cooperation, while ensuring balanced participation across gender, age, institutional profiles, and areas of expertise. By creating opportunities for leaders from a broad range of higher education institutions and sectors, the action will foster a richer exchange of perspectives and enable more innovative and systemic solutions.
• Providing visibility by effective communication and dissemination of outputs (learning materials, case studies, training resources, policy briefs, etc.) at institutional, national, and European levels.