On November 13-14 2025, we attended the DAAD Kick-Off Meeting for Erasmus+ Cooperation Partnerships 2025 in Bonn where we had the opportunity to introduce, as coordinators, our new project “CoCreate: An integrated framework for delivering educational hackathons to support creativity and entrepreneurship in Higher Education Institutions“.
The aim of CoCreate is to design and deliver innovative learning designs for Higher Education that promote creativity and entrepreneurship. We explore the potential of hackathons for a) facilitating hands-on problem-based and collaborative learning in Higher Education courses; b) scaffolding students in acquiring critical skills for innovation and entrepreneurship; and c) supporting civic engagement by encouraging students to solve real-world challenges beyond their curricula.
Together with Jeanette Falk (Aalborg University, Denmark), Alexander Nolte and Alexander Serebrenik (Technical University of Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Mari Hanikat (Garage 48, Estonia), we embark on this 3-year-long journey with a lot of excitement and many ambitions! Fingers crossed!
The introduction poster for CoCreate can be accessed here: https://cocreate-project.eu/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/2025_CoCreate_Project.pdf
