New partner and specialisations added to the MARIHE master’s programme

The Erasmus Mundus consortium for the Master in Research and Innovation in Higher Education (MARIHE) programme held a project meeting on 17-19 March, hosted by their new partner: the University of Aveiro, Portugal. As the Hungarian representatives of the higher education research programme, lecturers from ELTE PPK also participated in the event.

ELTE participates in the MARIHE international master’s programme, which has received funding for the third time, with a master’s programme of the Faculty of Pedagogy and Psychology, called “Research and Innovation in Higher Education”. This means that students who choose ELTE PPK’s “Learning and Teaching” specialisation will receive a joint degree from ELTE and the University of Krems upon successful completion of the programme.

The consortium of six higher education institutions has recently been joined by the University of Aveiro where students, depending on their specialisation, can spend the third and fourth semesters of the two-year programme. From now on, the two Asian MARIHE partner institutions—the Beijing Normal University in China and the Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology in India—will offer individual specialisations.

The first class of the new, expanded MARIHE programme—which also coincides with the tenth year of the programme—will start their studies at the University of Krems in Austria in autumn 2025. The first students are expected to arrive at ELTE in autumn 2026, and the university will welcome students every year thereafter until autumn 2029.

The ELTE representatives attending the project meeting in Aveiro were Zoltán Rónay (consortium leader and programme coordinator), Orsolya Kálmán (specialisation leader), and Judit Saád (project manager). The partners agreed on the renewed training programme and decided to develop a new communication and marketing strategy. The consortium is committed to the financial sustainability of the training programme and to increasing the number of tuition-free students. ELTE will host the project meeting in spring 2027.