VUCA Scenarios Impacting Higher Education
Abstract
DECART (Designing higher Education Curricula for Agility, Resilience & Transformation) is a
cooperation partnership in higher education funded by Erasmus+. The aim of the project is to
propose methods and tools to guide STEM & Management educational leaders in innovative
curriculum design and program transformations in an effort to be more prepared for
unpredictable VUCA contexts (volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous). The project
facilitates the identification and sharing of innovative curricula among partners in the project as
well as associated international participants, in essence to assess and improve interoperability
and resilience of curricula. Over the course of 3 years (2022-2025), the project brings together
4 universities from Europe and 2 from South Africa and Asia.
This report, VUCA Scenarios Impacting Higher Education (report R12) summarizes the work
done in the first phase of the project, i.e. on curriculum design, and in particular on the effect of
VUCA scenarios on curriculum design. This was done through discussions among the partners
and by a survey done in the latter part of 2023. The survey focussed on potential VUCA
scenarios that faculty had experienced or foresaw, and the perceived sensitivity of different
components of curricula to these events. Finally, the report summarizes the findings from the
survey.
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