EUROGEO 2017

Geographical education is facing many challenges at schools and in higher education. The purpose of EUROGEO 2017 is to examine some of these issues and their possible responses.

Universities are increasingly operating in a global market and geography as a discipline can offer students the potential of a global outlook. The Bologna Process and the European Higher Education Area sought to improve the quality of learning and teaching and increase the transparency of courses and qualifications. It is now time to take stock of these developments and explore developments that approach European and international contexts.

Higher education contributions to EUROGEO 2017 might seek to examine a number of important questions, such as:

• How has student expectations changed in terms of  academic quality, employability or the opportunities they are offered?
• What strategies are being applied in departments and on courses?
• How is success being measured?
• How are academics and researchers responding to more flexible demands being placed on them concerning teaching and research?
• What innovations in teaching and learning are taking place and are they being implemented / scaled up?
• In what ways are new technologies transforming the learning, teaching and research experience?
• How are green campus and other initiatives developing?