Research Projects design & management Centre (RPC)
The Research Projects design & management Centre (RPC) strengthens HU’s institutional capacity to design, coordinate, and sustain externally funded research projects. It supports strategic alignment, collaborative governance within consortia, and high-quality implementation across the full research project lifecycle.
Objective
The objective of RPC is to embed robust project design and management practices within HU research. By strengthening institutional coordination, governance, and lifecycle thinking, RPC enables research teams to initiate, lead, and sustain complex, collaborative projects aligned with societal challenges and partner ecosystems, funding frameworks, and HU’s strategic research ambitions.
Results
- Strengthened capacity for research project design and coordination
- Improved governance and role clarity within multi-partner collaborations
- Greater sustainability of externally funded research initiatives
How we work
Operating across different levels, RPC connects research strategies with practice by fostering shared methods, reflective learning, and cross-institutional collaboration. This approach enhances consistency, scalability, and long-term impact by strengthening HU’s role within collaborative research programmes.
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EU.ACE network: empowering higher education through quality micro-credentials.
Last week, the European Universities on Academic Continuing Education (ACE) network visited our HU. The HU works together within this network to strengthen education for professionals. All week there were workshops and presentations by experts, with experiences from knowledge institutions like Le Cnam in Paris, HSLU in Luzern, Turku UAS in Finland and more EU.ACE partners. From KC DBM, Senior Project Manager Mohamed Eledeisy held a session on European collaboration for institutional innovation and flexible pathways.
About EU ACE
EU.ACE is a consortium of ten European knowledge institutions focused on the development of innovative, tailor-made lifelong development pathways as an integral part of the European education area and knowledge infrastructure in the EU. The network hopes to anchor lifelong-development more strongly in the European Higher Education Area. To this end, among other things, they have formulated a Living Paper, containing a European Framework to include lifelong development as the fourth pillar of the Bologna Process. In December, this paper, to which the HU also contributed, was presented in Brussels.
About the EU ACE visit
EU.ACE was held at HU from 23 to 27 March 2026. They participated in the learning network week "Education for all: empowering higher education through quality micro-credentials." After all, how do you develop successful, stackable micro-credential programmes? How do you string together flexible, stackable modules into a recognised degree? And how do you use online, 'blended' education to improve people's career prospects worldwide? These and other topics were covered over the five days of the visit.
European collaboration for institutional innovation and flexible pathways
One of the sessions at the ACE visit was led by Senior Project Manager Mohamed Eledeisy, where he talked about the importance of European collaboration for course development. In his role at the Research Projects design & management Centre (RPC) he facilitated several projects that focus on the development of digital skills for professionals. During the talk he highlighted the projects Digital4Sustainability,SMARCO and ARISA. These are collaborative projects that work on strategy and curriculum development for digital and AI skills for European professionals.
HU researchers involved in the research
