Join the CIVIS Community

The structure of CIVIS reflects its aim to tackle major societal challenges of the 21st century, focused on five thematic challenges. 

Five academic hubs 
Five academic pillars or 'Hubs' were created to be the catalysts for interdisciplinary co-creation of educational pathways through innovative pedagogies and to foster multidisciplinary research projects.

Hubs drive the development of challenge-driven study programmes around the UN sustainable development goals. These programmes will provide our students with new skills and knowledge, and will develop their entrepreneurial mind-set to better prepare them to tackle society’s biggest challenges locally and globally. They will also develop students’ intercultural competences via physical, virtual and blended mobility and through the systematic creation of the programmes involving a minimum of three partners. 

Find out more about CIVIS structure:

CIVIS newsletter

Sign up for the CIVIS newsletter and receive the latest news directly in your inbox.

Use the CIVIS newsletter and CIVIS project managers in each member institution to publicise your event. Contact the CIVIS project manager, Celine Reynaud for further information. 

CIVIS contacts for the University of Glasgow

To get involved in the Hub activities, contact the Hub Leaders for the University of Glasgow:  

Working Groups and Task Forces are in place to support specific actions and to ensure a consistency of approach across the Alliance.

To get involved in the Working Groups or Task Forces activities, contact the following colleagues at the University of Glasgow:  

Other initiatives:  

Student Council - SRC - Vice President Education

Student Ambassadors - TBC

CIVIS Orchestra - Dr Eva Moreda Rodriguez  

RIS4CIVIS (Horizon 2020 research project) and CIVIS3I (Marie Curie Sklodowska post-doctoral Fellowships) - Joe Galloway & team monitor opportunities for research. 

Collaborate and Co-create

Mapping Research Strategies across CIVIS

The project RIS4CIVIS supports the research and innovation (R&I) dimension of the CIVIS Alliance. It is an integral part of our long-term strategy, working in synergy with our educational activities. 

In the first phase we have produced an inventory of the current practices and resources available within each CIVIS Alliance member university, as well as the legal, political or financial barriers for research and innovation. The first results have been compiled in a global report, which will inspire the next phase of the project: consensus-building. Read the report.

Co-creation of interdisciplinary educational pathways

The co-creation of interdisciplinary educational pathways through innovative pedagogies along 5 thematic challenges embodied by the Alliance’s hubs is one of the cornerstones in the development of an inter-university digital campus: 

  • Hub1: Climate, environment and energy 
  • Hub 2: Society, culture, heritage. 
  • Hub 3:  Health 
  • Hub 4: Cities, territories and mobilities 
  • Hub 5: Digital and Technological transformation 

In responding to the calls, academic colleagues will have the opportunity to work with at least 2 other CIVIS partners to deliver challenge-driven study programmes to better prepare students to tackle society’s biggest challenges locally and globally.  

The list of CIVIS Call for Projects with their submission deadlines.

Contact the CIVIS project manager, Celine Reynaud for further information or assistance in identifying CIVIS partners. 

Open Labs

Conceived as open and collaborative spaces, CIVIS Open Labs are to act as catalyst for challenge-based education by bringing together a diversity of actors to discuss local needs and challenges and co-design solutions to societal issues.

Find out about CIVIS Open Labs.

Glasgow’s Open Lab Manager: Ken Skeldon - ARC, University Research Engagement Manager

Get in touch with the Open Lab team.

Past Open Labs Projects:

A Small Grant Fund was launched in May 2022 in collaboration with the GCPH and the UofG Engage Forum representatives to invite community-led projects. 10 projects were shortlisted on 24 June 2022.

Mentorship and support were offered to all proposals to ensure mutually-beneficial connections between local communities and our University communities. Learn about the projets here.

 

2024 Open Lab Project: ‘Solutions for Change’.

The Open Lab team is supporting a new initiative called ‘Solutions for Change’, a real-life development programme fostering the leadership, collaboration, and career skills of PGRs and PDRAs by working on genuine local challenges.

Collaborating with third sector, non-profit, and community organisations, teams will apply their research skills in a new environment, exploring a topical issue faced by these organisations and co-create potential solutions. Find out more.

Postgraduate students are invited to apply for a place on the programme before 10 May 2024.

 

Network

Why not organise a CIVIS Disciplinary meeting to find out more about the CIVIS community in your area of research, around teaching collaborations, student exchanges, etc.? There is no set format and the CIVIS Project Manager will assist you in the organisation of the meeting. 

Contact the CIVIS project manager, Celine Reynaud for further information. 

Share your experience in Learning & Teaching

Contribute to the Innovative Pedagogies Workshops series. These are aimed at academics from all fields of expertise, with a view to share expertise in higher education teaching & learning and to stimulate pedagogical innovation. 

Propose a workshop or training course via the CIVIS Academy to share your professional experience, knowledge and skills with your CIVIS peers.

Contact the CIVIS project manager, Celine Reynaud for further information. 

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