Joining the ENHANCE Alliance as a professor connects you to a dynamic international community that supports your professional growth and innovation in teaching. Participation also strengthens your international networks, fosters collaboration with colleagues across Europe, and positions you at the forefront of shaping the future of higher education.
Integrated study pathways
The integrated study pathways are developed through the cooperation of professors and study program coordinators across ENHANCE partner universities. Their aim is to go beyond traditional mobility programs by offering structured, yet customizable study journeys. The available courses are in fact assessed and pre-approved by study programme coordinators, ensuring that students can focus on learning rather than administrative hurdles. Courses within these pathways can also be integrated with other international and innovative learning activities (such as Summer and Winter Schools, virtual and blended courses, and micro-credentials) to create a comprehensive and enriched educational experience for students. Completion of a pathway may lead to the recognition of a certificate that qualifies itsunique features.
The Toolkit “The ENHANCE Guided Education Paths: Onboarding Toolkit for Academics” is available, designed to provide comprehensive support for the co-design of integrated study pathways, facilitate exchanges and meetings between professors and programme coordinators, and offer resources and tools for implementation.
For administrative enquiries please contact Eugenia Fattori (European Education Pathways Coordinator, International Relations Unit) at eugenia.fattori@polimi.it.
Short-term learning activities
The ENHANCE Innovative Learning Campus (ILC) brings together short-term learning activities delivered in virtual or blended, for students from across the Alliance. Its aim is to create new types of mobility experiences alongside traditional study abroad programmes.
ENHANCE’s short-term learning activities integrate innovative formats and teaching methods and are collected in a shared Catalogue accessible to students across all partner universities.
How to actively participate
Short-term learning activities are offered to ENHANCE through the same process used for publishing learning offers in Passion in Action – a catalogue of open participation teaching activities that the Politecnico offers to students to support the development of transversal, soft and social skills and to encourage/facilitate students in enriching their personal, cultural and professional experience.
In order for the activity to be accessible also to ENHANCE students, the proposal must always meet the following minimum requirements:
- Be delivered in English;
- Be accessible remotely (in asynchronous and/or synchronous mode).
Professors can contribute to ENHANCE by choosing one of the following options (testo non titolo/sottotitolo):
- By extending access to students from ENHANCE universities to existing learning activities, currently open only to Polimi students,;
By developing new learning activities, potentially in collaboration with ENHANCE partner institutions.
1. Extending access to existing learning activities
Make sure your offering meets the minimum requirements and extend access to students from ENHANCE universities by using the Request for activation of innovative teaching activities - PiA available on your personal page of the Online Services. If approved, the activity will also be published in the Alliance’s catalogue and participation will be extended to students of ENHANCE universities.
2. Developing new learning activities
You are free to design the teaching format! ENHANCE provides the perfect opportunity to test innovative teaching methods. You might also choose to add an in-person component, enabling participation from students who cannot take part in a study abroad programme. To further enrich your proposal, you can collaborate with colleagues from other universities within the Alliance and co-create it with them. Remember: the activity must still meet the minimum requirements listed above.
As with existing learning activities, proposals should be submitted through the Request for activation of innovative teaching activities - PiA. If approved, the activity will also be published in the Alliance’s catalogue and participation will be extended to students of ENHANCE universities.
Funding opportunities
Regardless of the way you choose to participate in ENHANCE, remember that the publication of a learning activity does not automatically come with financial support. However, it is possible to obtain funding to support the organization of short-term learning activities to be made available to ENHANCE students through:
- Blended Intensive Programmes (BIP) Erasmus+:These not only provide funding for students, professors, and staff mobility, but also give the host institution extra resources to cover the organization of the in-person sessions. For more details, contact us at erasmus-bip@polimi.it.
- Special calls launched by the Alliance or by individual ENHANCE universities: During the time windows when a call is open, submitting the proposal through the Request for activation of innovative teaching activities - PiA automatically counts as an application to the call, and must therefore meet any additional requirements. Also remember that learning activities submitted through a call procedure may require supplementary documentation, have specific selection criteria, and specific deadlines. For administrative enquiries please contact Rebecca Prudenziati (International Relations Unit) at rebecca.prudenziati@polimi.it.