The European Strategy for Universities set the framework for the evolution of European Higher Education. European Universities (transnational alliances) as EDUC, are the best way for the structural transition to a digital and greener internationalization of education.

EDUC aims to create an integrated European University where learners, educators, and researchers collaborate across institutional, cultural, disciplinary and geographical boundaries. One common goal is to integrate sustainable virtual mobility and exchange learning offers for all target groups.

To achieve our ambitious goals, collaborative inner- and cross-institutional learning, as well as developing processes that consider gaps and differences between local peculiarities of the partners involved, are essential. Therefore, our strategy’s foundation is the Network-learning Communities of Practices. We realized that both our alliance as a whole, and actors at individual partner universities, with their local needs and distinctive characteristics, can be considered “global” and “local” communities of practice respectively.

Our Network-learning Communities of Practices foster meaningful learning environments through peer sharing and self-determined learning activities. Those communities aim to reflect and discuss as well as develop common outcomes based on a future-proof EDUCation vision, where professional development of university teaching staff, support services and especially the exchange between all stakeholders in networks is a permanent routine.

We would like to share with the Moving Target Digitalisation 2022 audience our learning journey during a disruptive pilot phase in the middle of a pandemic, our collective vision for the rollout of EDUC (next 4 years) and how we are planning to adapt our Network-learning strategy based on our common learnings and taking advantage of the flexibility of the EDUCational ecosystem we are continuously improving within our Alliance.