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practices. Capacity building encourages collaboration between
academia, policy bodies and industry, and projects typically focus
on one of three main activities:
Curriculum development
Modernising governance and management of HEIs and systems
Strengthening relationships between higher education and the
wider economic and social environment

More information is available at https://eacea.ec.europa.eu/
erasmus-plus_en.

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• Supportive learning environment
• Psychological safety that allows for open
discussions
• Appreciation of differences and diverging views
• Openness to new ideas and approaches
• Time to invest into learning, testing,
implementing and reflection of new approaches

• Concrete learning processes and practices
• Frequent experimentation with new approaches
• Collection and analysis of information on trends
in the field
• Education and training
• Information transfer – learning from best
practices inside and outside the organisation

• Leadership that reinforces learning
• Demonstrating a willingness to learning Fast-changing external conditions present universities with an
• Entertaining alternative viewpoints opportunity to strengthen their strategic and operational capacity,
• Signalling importance of spending time on enhance their scholarship and teaching, improve relevance, and
problem identification, knowledge transfer, and fulfil their so-called ‘third mission’.
reflection
• Engagement in active questioning and listening