Educational development: Now open for CHARM-EU partners
06/02/2026The JMU Centre for Teaching and Learning has expanded its English-language continuing education programme in educational development and opened it up to teaching staff from CHARM-EU partner universities.
Six seminars per year plus two digital self-study courses in English: With this offer, the Centre for Teaching and Learning (ZBL) at the University of Würzburg is now also giving all non-German-speaking lecturers the opportunity to obtain the basic level certificate in university teaching from Bavarian universities.
New: Two places are available in the English-language continuing education courses for lecturers from CHARM-EU partner universities. With this step, JMU aims to further strengthen its direct links to the Würzburg alliance partners in Barcelona, Bergen, Budapest, Dublin, Montpellier, Mülheim, Turku and Utrecht in the field of university teaching.
The content of the courses ranges from the development and implementation of teaching and learning concepts to practice-orientated methods for presentation, moderation and examination and performance assessment. The programme is free of charge for lecturers at JMU and from the CHARM alliance.
Laying the common thread: From the initial idea to the exam
The self-study course Constructive Alignment self-study course helps teachers to redesign or further develop their own courses. Participants formulate learning objectives, select suitable methods and design examination formats that are aligned with the intended learning outcomes.
The programme is suitable for newcomers to university teaching, but also for experienced lecturers who want to review their planning, sharpen their didactic decisions and take on board new ideas.
Social challenges as a learning opportunity
The concept of Challenge-Driven Learning is central to the CHARM-EU alliance: it places current social challenges at the centre of learning and promotes interdisciplinary, solution-oriented work.
The focus is on sustainability issues in their ecological, social and global dimensions. The self-study course shows how real challenges can be integrated into university teaching and which didactic and organisational considerations are necessary for this.
Self-study courses on WueCampus
The self-study courses can be completed online and at your own pace via the WueCampus learning platform. Those wishing to complete the course with a certificate must submit a final written assignment (approx. 2,000 words). Interested parties who do not wish to obtain a certificate can take part at any time - even without places being allocated or fixed deadlines.
Initial positive feedback
The JMU Educational Development team has already received positive feedback on the English-language courses: Participants particularly praised the practical exchange of experiences with colleagues from different universities and countries.
Contact and information
All information on the continuing education programme in educational development can be found on the ZBL website.
If you are interested or have any questions, simply send an e-mail to: zbl-hochschuldidaktik@uni-wuerzburg.de
