Equipping all teachers and staff — not just the already confident. Removing barriers of language, geography, prior experience and ability so that no one is left behind. The modules we create must themselves model what inclusion looks like in practice: accessible formats, flexible entry points, and relevance across nine very different institutional contexts.
Seed question
Who is not yet in this conversation — and how does our module reach them?
Modern pedagogies, novel roles of educators, AI in teaching and learning. Not tools for their own sake — but tools that expand what is possible in the classroom and beyond it. This includes student-centred learning, challenge-based approaches, digital tools for collaboration and feedback, and honest reckoning with AI's growing presence in higher education.
Seed question
What practice in your teaching would inspire a colleague at another SEA-EU university to try something new?
The SDGs are core principles for SEA-EU. The goal is not only to teach about sustainability — but to transform how and why we teach, integrating green thinking across disciplines and curricula. As universities of the seas, we have a particular stake in this: coastal ecosystems, blue economy, climate change, and the communities that depend on healthy oceans are close to all nine partners.
Seed question
How does your teaching prepare students for the world they will actually inherit?
Crossing disciplines is the design principle, not just a theme. Challenge-based, real-life problem solving that draws on multiple fields of knowledge simultaneously. The SEA-EU alliance — nine institutions, seven countries, many disciplines — is itself a transdisciplinary space. What becomes possible when an engineer, an ecologist and an educator design a module together?
Seed question
What could only be taught if two disciplines — or two institutions — were in the same room?
Our goal this week
Leave Algarve with committed co-created Moodle module outlines — and the video content to bring them to life. These become part of an open-source Digital Sharing of Innovative Tools and Pedagogies, ready to implement and replicate across the whole SEA-EU community.
