EURECA-PRO

Innovative Teaching Practices to Ignite Your Classroom

EURECA-PRO Lifelong Learning Academy - Online Course
Starting: January 2026

University involved: Technical University of Crete

14 Jan, 2026
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Course Type:
Online Course

Number of places:
No limit

Starting:
January 2026

Ending:
open ended

Have you developed a teaching method that you’re truly proud of — one that you believe could benefit thousands of students beyond your own lecture hall? Are you ready to share it with colleagues across Europe?

The self-paced course “Innovative Teaching Practices to Ignite Your Classroom” brings together experienced educators from the nine EURECA-PRO universities, providing a direct pathway to inspiration and practical exchange.

Based on an easy-to-follow, self-paced format, participants experience innovative teaching practices and their real impact on the overall learning experience of students.

What’s more, the course is always open for new contributions. If you are eager to enrich the course with your best teaching practice, please contact the Course Director: Afroditi Fotiou – afotiou@tuc.gr.

Target Group

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This course is designed for staff performing teaching or instructing duties, or those starting their career in the field, including: 

  • Professors
  • Associate / Assistant Professors
  • Lecturers
  • Foreign Language Instructors
  • Permanent and Non-permanent Laboratory Teaching Assistants
  • Non-permanent Teaching Staff
  • PhD Candidates or Postdoctoral Associates
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Objectives:  

  • Showcase and analyse successful teaching practices implemented within the EURECA-PRO Alliance, enabling participants to adapt and implement them in their own courses.
  • Inspire both new and experienced faculty, maximising professional growth in a meaningful and time-efficient manner.
  • Introduce active and engaged professors to their peers and foster a Collaborative Professional Network.

Each session includes a self-assessment quiz to reinforce learning and reflection. Although the course does not award ECTS credits, participants will receive a Certificate of Completion upon finishing all sessions. The course content will be expanded and/or renewed throughout the project, and all pre-recorded sessions will be made available on Moodle for continuous access and engagement.

Course Instructors

Angelika Haindl

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Darlene Kilian

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Mario Grande-de-Prado

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Norbert G. Berger

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Konstantinos-Alketas Oungrinis

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Angelika Haindl

Angelika Haindl is a senior lecturer at Montanuniversität Leoben (Technical University Leoben, MUL). A mining engineer, she graduated from the MUL in 2011. 

Prior to joining the university as a member of staff, she worked for Rio Tinto Minerals and Imerys as a mine manager assistant specialising in mine planning. She teaches courses on deposit modelling, mine scheduling, economic geology, and mining economics to master’s students at the MUL.

Darlene Kilian, MA Applied Linguistics and TESOL

Bachelors of Architecture, BS in Environmental Design
  • 25 years teaching English for specific and academic purposes at German and Ivorian universities, currently at the TU Bergakademie Freiberg.
  • 6 years as an entrepreneur – international language consultancy, CQLingo.
  • 6 years teaching English online to professionals and students – individually and in groups – with clients/participants from Singapore, Russia, Italy, Slovenia, Mexico, Germany, Poland.
  • 5 years working as an architect in Germany and the USA.
  • 2x 10-month English Language Fellowships with the US Department of State in Cote d’Ivoire.
  • Conference and webinar speaker in the USA, Estonia, Germany, Poland, Tanzania, and Cote d’Ivoire.

Mario Grande-de-Prado

Mario Grande-de-Prado is a Full-time Professor at the Faculty of Education at the University of León, Spain. His thesis focuses on digital competence among pre-service primary education teachers. Since 2017, he has served as a permanent faculty member, after previous years as an associate lecturer since 2006. Since 2020 he is Head of ULe Online (area of the University of León focused on supporting their official online degrees and masters).

His academic interests encompass digital competence in education, the pedagogical use of games and gamification, online and virtual assessment methodologies, and the integration of artificial intelligence in higher education.  

His bibliography can be reviewed through his ORCID www.orcid.org/0000-0002-7180-8301 and Edutools` (Research group) webpage:  www.edutools.unileon.es/en homepage.

Norbert G. Berger

Retired staff lecturer and teaching fellow from the universities of Graz (Austria) and Exeter (United Kingdom). Currently external lecturer at Montanuniversität Leoben (Austria), Karl Franzens Universität Graz, and senior teaching fellow and IT officer at the Institute for Global Negotiation, University of Zurich (Switzerland). 

Experiences and qualifications in educational research, blended and online teaching and learning, authoring teaching materials in legal studies, management, information technologies, teacher education, coaching research grant applicants, course and programme design, consulting on learning technologies and applications, learning management systems, authoring and co-authoring publications. 

For further details see: www.moodle.ngberger.com

Dr. Konstantinos-Alketas Oungrinis

Professor, School of Architecture, Technical University of Crete
Director of the Transformable and Intelligent Environments Laboratory (TUC TIE Lab), Technical University of Crete 
Vice Rector of Research and Innovation, Technical University of Crete
Vice-President of the Archeological Museum of Herakleion

His expertise is in the application of modern technologies and the development of methodologies that create a participatory, human-centered research and application framework, aiming to enhance everyday life and to change the paradigm in contemporary society. Modern technologies are understood as an interface between man and space, at all levels, from concept to experience. He has developed two specific approaches for the successful implementations of IT in design titled Spatial Economy and Sensponsive Architecture. His thematic areas of study are interdisciplinary, rooted in the field of architecture and from there on branching out mainly into the domains of psychology, neuroscience, interactive media, robotics, and computer science.

In particular, in the field of applications in education and the educational space, his work investigates the participatory process of improving the spatial imprint of social activities, the integration of new technologies in every-day living, and the interdisciplinary synergy in social innovation, promoting the enhancement of the experiential impact of the “space”, transforming it to “place”. Its contribution to applied research is presented through the implementation of 51 main and 31 pilot research projects, completed or in progress. He is the author of 2 books, has edited 4 books and has 86 scientific publications. He has 17 national and international awards, including the Europe 40 under 40 Architecture Award (2008).

He holds a Diploma in Architecture and Architecture, a Master’s Degree in Architecture and a Master’s Degree in Architecture. He holds a PhD in Architecture and Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (1994) with a PhD thesis at the same University on Structural Morphology and Mobile Structures in Changing Spaces (2009). Between 2004-2006 he was a Visiting Research Associate at the Harvard Graduate School of Design [GSD].