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2025 Spring Forum – International student accommodation
International student accommodation
Deadline to submit: 20 January 2025
Housing is integral to any student experience. Comfortable housing can underscore a memorable international study experience, while particularly purposeful or innovative approaches to student accommodation can be life changing. On the other hand, a lack of stable housing can severely impact the experience of (international) students and their wellbeing. The increasing volume of mobile students, as well as housing shortages and the rising cost of living across Europe, is putting pressure on both on-campus accommodation and the private housing market. Student accommodation is fast becoming both a policy issue and a practical issue that can impact both the numbers and geographical distribution of potential international students and their intercultural experience.
In this context, international students, and their accommodation needs, risk becoming scapegoats for policy gaps. They are often hit the hardest by high fees, have fewer stable support networks and are disproportionately at risk of predatory housing agencies and providers or falling victim to scams.
Without a solid home base, students’ ability to excel at university or sustain meaningful social relationships can be hampered. A stable housing situation, however, can set the stage for a host of benefits, including the opportunity to gain necessary life experience, intercultural learning, and an increased sense of global citizenship.
The 2025 Spring edition of Forum magazine will be centred around this multifaceted issue of student housing. We encourage submissions relating to the themes discussed above, as well as, but not limited to, the following:
- When it comes to student accommodation, how do universities prioritise and balance the needs of local and international students?
- What solutions are being/have been devised where housing capacity has negatively impacted international student admissions?
- What are some good practice examples of measures to manage the university-student relationship, including accommodation expectations and issues?
- What protocols exist to prepare international students to live with other international students or local students?
- In what ways do universities work with the private housing sector to manage the supply and demand, and ensure the quality of housing supplied to their international students?
- What do universities do to facilitate intercultural learning and cultural immersion through their housing arrangements for international students?
- What are the challenges and best practices in mixing international students with diverse (cultural as well as socio-economic) backgrounds in practice?
- What kinds of innovative housing solutions can be devised for international students and what factors contribute to their success or failure?
- How does student accommodation move up the policy agenda of European and national government actors?
- What are the political debates around the supply of student accommodation in your country, at present and in the past?
- What does the future of student housing in Europe look like? Where should we be headed?
2025 Summer Forum – European Universities Alliances
European Universities Alliances
Deadline to submit: 14 March 2025
The highly ambitious European Universities Initiative was launched in 2019 by the European Commission, with the May 2021 Council Conclusions on the European Universities reiterating support for these institutions to promote:
... gender equality, inclusiveness, and equity, allowing for seamless and ambitious transnational cooperation between higher education institutions in Europe, and inspiring the transformation of higher education.
As of 2024, 64 alliances are funded, involving more than 560 HEIs from 35 countries. As we begin to see the emergence of a cohort of graduates whose entire education has been conducted through European Universities Alliances, it’s a good moment to take stock. Are these Alliances reshaping the way education is being carried out across Europe and creating opportunities for international education that were previously unimaginable, as envisioned? Where has experimentation and deep collaboration been more or less fruitful? What steps are being taken to widen access to the scheme and ensure the inclusion agenda cited above is being realised? How can the higher education community – across Europe and farther afield, notably in the Global South – engage actively with, and derive benefits from, the Alliances’ successes as well as the harder lessons they have learned?
The 2025 Summer edition of Forum magazine will turn its attention towards European Universities Alliances and will provide a platform to critically reflect on their benefits, the challenges they face and their impact on the framework of higher education in Europe and beyond. We encourage submissions relating to the themes explored above, as well as, but not limited to, the following:
- What do we know about the experiences of universities outside the Alliances? How have learnings generated inside the Alliances been shared beyond their boundaries?
- To what extent are the ambitions of the project being realised? Do universities collect data on how Alliances have impacted their excellence, inclusivity, sustainability, and equity?
- How are Alliances positioned within the established ecosystem of European higher education? How has/will their proliferation affect(ed) this?
- What new ways of working, teaching and research have developed following the establishment of the Alliances? What teething issues remain? Which innovations can be transferred beyond the Alliances?
- How did the COVID-19 pandemic affect the Alliances and their formation? Are there lingering effects from this major global disruption that hit during the launch stage of this initiative?
- What are the implications for the top-down arrangement of Alliances? How are Alliances getting academic staff members involved and are there good examples of such efforts?
- What can we learn from those with hands-on experiences of Alliance formation and facilitation?
- What are the key issues in play today relating to the Alliances’ legal status, including European degree accreditation and inclusion of research?
- How are students involved in the alliances? What is the experience of first generation of graduates from EUA?
- What does the future of funding look like for European Universities Alliances? Should funding be redirected from other Erasmus+ actions? What would be the ideal situation?
- Longitudinal perspectives on the direction of European Universities Alliances
- What critiques can be levied at the European Universities Alliances as a project? What are the concerns about this new paradigm of education and its broader impact?
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