EuroTeQ – Who is Who behind our activities?
Meet Patrick Crowley – Project Manager EuroTeQ Campus (Work Package 2)
Since the summer of 2023, Patrick Crowley has made it his mission to grow the EuroTeQ Campus. Located at the DTU Office for Study Programmes and Student Affairs, he has been to almost all EuroTeQ partner universities, to get a good feeling of the physical campuses – before joining them virtually.
Patrick, since the autumn of 2023, EuroTeQ has an automated Course Catalogue, connecting all the campus management systems and offering over 120 courses to EuroTeQ students. What’s next? What are you working on in 2024?
Next, we focus on quality, scaling-up, and sustainability. Over three years of hard work, my fantastic colleagues have created a solid foundation by establishing the online course catalogue. Now, we need to ensure the continuous production of quality courses tailored to our user’s needs. We need to go bigger and ensure we reach as many teachers and students as possible. We need to create a product that lasts, a platform that can be integrated into existing structures for years to come.
What are you most excited about and what do you see as the biggest challenge in this endeavor?
The most exciting thing about this project is the potential of what we can achieve together. We have the best tech universities around Europe, working together, so the thought of what we could create is so exciting. The challenge will be in changing established processes (e.g. how we enroll and teach our students), across many institutions operating within different contexts and under different constraints. However, the opportunity is far greater than the challenge, so I know it will be a success.
Dream big, where do you see the EuroTeQ Campus in 2030?
By 2030, society will be benefitting from engineering students who thrive in multi-cultural working groups, who view societal issues with an intercultural lens, and who are even better equipped with 21st-century workforce skills. By 2030, the campus will be an integrated part of our universities, known by our teachers as a platform where they can rethink the teaching space and known to our students as a portal to new experiences, ideas, and skills. By 2030, through our alternative mobility offerings, we will be providing equity of access to international education and experience for all our students.
Tell us a bit about Patrick outside of work? What do you enjoy in your free time, when you are not bringing European partners together?
I love to be active. My free time is spent rowing, running, cycling, hiking… anything active that can get me out in the open really. Denmark is great for this; people cycle everywhere here and make the most of any second of sunshine they can get! The hiking would definitely benefit from some mountains, like those back home in Ireland, but I’m always glad for the flatness over the last few km home on the bike.
Thanks for the interview, Patrick. We are thrilled that you are part of the EuroTeQ family.
Interested to reach out to Patrick, please contact him via pacro@dtu.dk
Find more about the EuroTeQ Campus and its growing Course Catalogue.
