The FOREU4ALL workshop “Aligning Project Management and Impact” seeks to build a strategic and practical dialogue between project management and impact within the European University Alliances. As alliances implement complex, long-term transformation agendas, the need to better align management practices with impact ambitions is growing. Yet, in many cases, these two dimensions remain siloed—limiting coherence, visibility, and strategic steering.

The workshop will offer a shared space for project managers and impact officers to explore how management and impact can mutually reinforce one another. Participants will engage in peer exchange, guided discussions, and hands-on sessions to:

• Clarify roles, expectations, and shared definitions surrounding project management, impact, and performance reporting within European University Alliances, to foster a common understanding and strengthen collaboration between management and impact actors.
• Explore and promote synergies between project management and impact approaches, identifying how they can mutually reinforce strategic alignment, accountability, and continuous improvement—ultimately contributing to the long-term transformation agendas of alliances.
• Foster peer learning and co-creation, enabling participants to reflect on current practices, surface shared challenges and opportunities, and co-develop a practical toolbox and roadmap for coordinated and impact-informed management across alliances.

The programme includes a variety of session formats, including plenary discussions, workshops, training sessions, posters and interactive “walls of challenges and solutions”.