The OpenEU Alliance has officially begun its journey toward establishing the first pan-European Open University.  The first OpenEU rectors' meeting after the European Commission's decision to grant funds to the initiative was held during the Innovating Higher Education Conference 2024, organised by EADTU and hosted by Open University of Cyprus and has brought together the Rectors and teams of the ten member universities.During the meeting, which took place on October 25 in Limassol, the OpenEU a…

The OpenEU Alliance has been officially introduced at the Innovating Higher Education (I·HE) Conference 2024, organized by the European Association of Distance Teaching Universities (EADTU) and held at the Open University of Cyprus (OUC). The president of the OpenEU Alliance and Rector of the UOC, Àngels Fitó Bertran, took the stage in the plenary session to deliver a keynote speech introducing OpenEU, as a groundbreaking initiative aimed at creating the first pan-European Open University.Rector…

The OpenEU initiative, harnesses the expertise of eight open and distance universities along with two on-campus universities, to provide accessible learning to over 368.000 non-traditional students and lifelong learners. OpenEU is dedicated to creating a learner-centred, inclusive, digital and green pan-European open university, widening access to higher education and lifelong learning to all. This initiative is funded by the European Commission through the Erasmus+ European Universities Program…

The OpenEU alliance, coordinated by the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), brings together 14 universities and 13 academic, business, rural, municipal and civil society associations from across Europe to create a pan-European open university OpenEU will contribute to the digital transformation of higher education institutions and the integration of technology in teaching and learningOpenEU is one of the 14 new alliances awarded funding as part of the European Commission's latest European Uni…

The digital training of academics in digital pedagogies is one of the main focus of the project The Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), as a coordinator, and Universidade Aberta de Portugal (UAb) are part of the ENID-Tech Consortium, which is focused on the digital training of academics in digital pedagogies, and the involvement of this community in building distributed but cohesive network of cooperation for the exchange of good practices and digital transformation. The projec…