Teach across borders, Shape the future
We invite you to design and submit innovative, interdisciplinary, and student-centred courses that reflect the spirit of EPICUR. Let’s create learning experiences that are collaborative, challenge-based, and truly European.
Why should you get involved?
By offering a course within EPICUR, you will:
- Welcome diverse, international students into your classroom
- Join an international academic community
- Receive dedicated support and resources from the EPICUR teaching community, like for example trainings on international hybrid teaching. Find more info here
- Increase the visibility and impact of your teaching
What kind of courses are we looking for?
We are looking for courses targeted at all students in the following priority areas: European Values, Sustainable Transformation, Future Intelligence, Global Health and Transversal Skills.
How to submit your course:
1. Download the course proposal spreadsheet
2. Fill in your course details
3. Submit it by 16th October 2025 and send it to the EPICUR Institutional Coordinator responsible for reviewing offers at your university (the university that will award credits). Click here to find the email address of your university.
Special Call for Challenge-Based and Innovation-Based Courses
We are excited to issue a Special Call for Courses that place challenge-based and innovation-based learning at the heart of the student experience.
EPICUR believes that tomorrow’s researchers and professionals should be equipped with the competencies to address complex societal, environmental, and technological challenges. We therefore encourage course proposals that include active, participatory, and problem-oriented learning components, such as:
- Challenge-Based Learning: Courses in which students work collaboratively on authentic, complex, and open-ended problems that mirror real-world challenges. Students are encouraged to integrate knowledge from different disciplines, engage with stakeholders, and propose evidence-based approaches or prototypes.
- Innovation/Entrepneurship-Based Learning: Innovation courses are specialised educational programs that teach individuals how to develop and implement innovative ideas in various industries and fields. Entrepreneurship courses are a specific type of innovation courses focusing on starting and running a business venture, often based on innovative ideas.
Such courses go beyond traditional lectures and actively involve students in co-designing, testing, and refining solutions, helping students to develop transversal skills like collaboration, critical thinking, creativity, and communication.
Learn more about teaching in EPICUR
If you want to learn more about teaching in EPICUR, watch our video here:
If you have any questions…
… do not hesitate to contact us at epicur@ucf.uni-freiburg.de