CIVIS launches the first series of Blended Intensive Programmes (BIPs). UB and other CIVIS students, invited to apply

Today, the 1st of September 2022, CIVIS launches the first series of Blended Intensive Programmes – BIPs, a new format of Erasmus+ mobility.

All BIPs applications take place through the CIVIS mobility portal, which can be accessed directly from the listings in the CIVIS Course Catalogue here. The first period of application is between 1 and 30 September 2022.

Every BIP combines online teaching with a short period of physical mobility, where you can spend 5 days at another university with students from across the CIVIS Alliance. By combining online sessions with a short trip for face-to-face teaching, this innovative format opens up opportunities for international study to new groups of students.

Each BIP is developed, organised and taught by academics at three or more CIVIS member universities. Academics across the Alliance meet through the CIVIS Hubs to work together and develop these exciting new educational programmes for students.

CIVIS believes in education with impact, so the CIVIS Hubs and all CIVIS programmes, among which the BIPs, are developed to respond to one of the 5 CIVIS Challenges. These are some of the biggest issues facing our societies and our world:

• Health
• Cities, Territories and Mobility
• Climate, Environment, Energy
• Digital and Technological Transformations
• Societies, Culture and Heritage

To tackle these issues, CIVIS uses interdisciplinary teaching and learning. Anchored in academic excellence, these courses often cross the borders of traditions subjects, university cycles or faculties.

There will be various waves of BIPs openings, each one with a specific application period. The first applications periods for the 2022-2023 academic year are:

• 1-30 September 2022
• 1-30 November 2022

At the moment, 6 BIPs are available on the CIVIS Courses page:

• Argumentation, communication, digital tools and knowledge transfer (deadline 20 September)
• Co-creating urban futures – citizen participation in local governance (deadline 20 September)
• Basic Cell Biology (deadline 30 September)
• Language and Identity in an Intercultural Perspective (deadline 30 September)
• Linguistic Cultures and Communities in Europe (deadline 30 September)
• European Private Law and modern technologies (deadline 30 September).

Additional information about BIPs are available on the dedicated webpage here, while the catalogue of these CIVIS courses can be accessed here.

 

More information about CIVIS – A European Civic University are available here.