What are Joint Education Lab projects?
Joint Education Lab projects promote new teaching methods, pedagogical approaches or products within the INGENIUM Alliance and beyond. The projects do not have to be fully developed; freedom to experiment is expressly encouraged. The aim is to strengthen cooperation between at least two INGENIUM universities.
A Joint Education Lab project can include, for example, co-teaching, co-creation with students or interdisciplinary collaboration to solve new problems, develop teaching methods or learning environments or create new micro-credentials.
Who can participate?
All professionals from the fields of higher education teaching, education, didactics and R&D are invited to submit proposals. INGENIUM can support you with mobility costs, material costs and other reasonable expenses to facilitate the start of the project.
Selection of topics for the call:
- Micro-credentials: Developing new joint offers or adapting existing ones for the Alliance
- Innovative teaching and learning: Develop and share new teaching or assessment methods
- Joint development projects: Realize inter-university projects
- Learning environments & platforms: Innovations in hybrid learning formats, VR applications or digital platforms
- Lifelong learning & cooperation with companies: Promote collaboration with business, local communities and lifelong learning
The evaluation criteria
Funding is available for projects that are particularly innovative, strengthen cooperation between INGENIUM universities, take multilingualism into account and make results transferable for science, practice or business. Creative, "out-of-the-box" ideas are expressly welcome.
How to apply:
- Find partners within the INGENIUM European University via the Education Lab inventory, the CONNECT portal or the websites of the partner universities.
- Submit your idea. If you have any questions, you can get support at ingenium@hka.de.
Application deadline: October 31, 2025
Further information on funding for Joint Education Lab projects can be found here.