Date:
25 November 2026
Time:
11:00 – 12:30
Breakout 1: From Joint Programmes to a Joint European Degree: What Does It Take to Make Cross-Border Education Work?
Moving from a shared academic idea to a fully operational joint programme still means overcoming academic, administrative and regulatory barriers. This session compares how alliances approach joint curriculum development, quality assurance and accreditation, admissions, student administration, governance and financial sustainability, and looks at the opportunities opened by the emerging European Degree framework.
- Where do joint programmes most often get stuck between the initial academic concept and full implementation?
- Which elements of design and delivery can be shared across an alliance, and which need to remain institution-specific?
- What could the European Degree framework enable for programmes currently limited by national or institutional constraints?
- Which barriers require action at national or European level, and how can alliances address them collectively?
Participants map where joint programme development gets stuck and sort each barrier by who can solve it: alliances, through better cooperation and shared procedures; universities, through institutional change; or national and European authorities. The session closes with a short set of recommendations to make joint programmes easier to develop in the coming years.
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