START E+ project on supporting transition to HE online dissemination event | 11 April 2025 – 10.30-12.00 CEST

18 March 2025 | From our Members - From partners

The Erasmus+ project START – Supporting teachers who support student transition, invites to join the START final online dissemination event, taking place on 11 April 2025, 10.30-12.00 CEST.

The webinar “Supporting student transition to Higher Education” addresses HE leaders, faculty developers and all those who teach first-year undergraduates:

• Supporting Teachers who Support Student Transition: Why, What, & How.

• Striving for inclusive excellence in higher education: what can be learnt from the START project.

The event will share resources created by five European universities and a European youth NGO who have worked together on the EU-funded Erasmus+ START project, aimed at:

1. making HE teachers aware of challenges first-year undergraduate students face, and the important role those who teach first-year undergraduates have in student transition to HE;
2. supporting HE teachers in reflection on their own teaching practices – in relation to how effective these are in supporting student transition to HE (so as to identify own strengths and next professional development goals);
3. helping those who teach first-year undergraduates find tools and tips for the challenges they face as teachers (in supporting first-year undergraduates); and
4. creating links with the pre-HE sector.

Target groups

• those involved in higher education (HE) teaching professionalisation activities,
• those working on making HE more inclusive,
• HE leaders, and
• faculty/educational/staff developer.

Registration

Please sign up here to receive the event link. 

About the project

The START project focuses on promoting inclusive excellence in higher education teaching. More specifically, START seeks to equip academics who work with first-year students with competences required to set all students up for success. Those who teach first-year students have a special role to play in making higher education inclusive. Simply granting access to diverse students, and then leaving them to own resources is not enough. Students need to be supported in this transition, so that every student can thrive and succeed. This is especially true for first-generation, international and older students, as well as for all students coming from less represented socio-economic backgrounds. Academics, in turn, need support of faculty developers and institutional authorities in order to develop awareness, skills and competences required to support diverse students in their transition to higher education.

START works to put together professional development resources that can support academics in their efforts to support student transition to higher education.

The project is coordinated by the University of Groningen. The Consortium comprises (among other partners), two UNICA member universities: the University of Ljubljana and University College Dublin.

Project website: https://supportingstart.eu/