Call for Joint Education Lab Projects is Open!
Now you have an opportunity to collaborate with other INGENIUM faculty, education, teaching, and RDI specialists and possibly get funding for your idea or project!
The INGENIUM European University is funding a selection of Joint Education Lab Projects to help transform ideas into reality. A joint education lab project develops or spreads innovative teaching methods, pedagogies, or products throughout the INGENIUM alliance and beyond. The ideas do not have to be fully realised, as it is important to allow for experimentation during implementation. Goal is to encourage collaboration between two or more INGENIUM universities.
The Joint Education Lab Project could involve, for example, co-teaching, co-creation with students, or interdisciplinary collaboration to solve novel problems, develop teaching methods or learning environments, or create new micro-credentials.
Faculty, education, teaching, and RDI specialists are invited to submit proposals for Joint Education Lab Projects. The projects can have their justified mobility, materials, and other reasonable expenses covered by their university to help get their projects off the ground.
What are the themes of this call?
The joint education lab project call has several themes to choose from:
- Micro-credentials: Create new joint micro-credentials or adapt an existing micro-credential to be offered to the alliance.
- Innovative teaching and learning: Create or share innovative teaching or assessment practices and expertise throughout the alliance.
- Joint development project: Create a joint education development project between two or more partner universities.
- Learning environments and platforms: Innovations in learning environments, hybrid teaching, or VR.
- Lifelong learning and business partnerships: Foster connections with local communities, develop connections with business and industry or develop lifelong learning offerings.
Proposals are assessed by four factors but out-of-the-box proposals are welcomed
Priority will be given to Joint Education Lab Project proposals focusing on:
- Innovation: Knowledge-sharing, co-creation and interdisciplinarity. The goal is to support networking and knowledge-sharing within the INGENIUM European University.
- Cooperation between different INGENIUM institutions to share facilities and expertise, facilitating knowledge transfer and the development of joint expertise.
- Multilingualism: Including, for example, intercultural communication, accessibility, inclusive language, and linguistic diversity.
- Transferability: Dissemination of results in various ways that help shape their scientific and professional fields or have real-world applicability, such as business or classroom applications.
Out-of-the-box proposals are welcome. Proposals should actively involve educators, students and stakeholders in their development or implementation.
Find partners and apply with your idea!
Those interested in preparing an application should search for potential partners within INGENIUM European University. Use the Education Lab inventory, the CONNECT portal, and each university’s website. You can also contact your local INGENIUM office to ask for help.
For more information about the details of the Joint Education Lab Project funding, please refer to the Frequently Asked Questions section on the Education Lab page. If you have any questions, contact us at INGENIUM@xamk.fi
The call for applications is open until 31st of October 2025.
