About Project

PLATINUM (Partnership for Learning and Teaching in University Mathematics) is an Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership project implemented in 7 European countries between 1.9.2018 and 31.8.2021.

PLATINUM’s context is the teaching and learning of mathematics at university level across different countries. Evidence shows that students’ learning is often of a procedural nature: students do not develop in-depth conceptual understandings through which they can relate mathematics to other disciplines and the world around them. Traditional forms of teaching reinforce this status quo.

We seek to improve teaching through inquiry-based approaches that allow students to achieve a more conceptually-based understanding of mathematics, more appropriate for solving problems in engineering, science, and in the labour market.

PLATINUM’s ambition is to contribute to the modernisation of education at universities and to the improvement of professional competences of university lecturers and students across Europe thus addressing the initiative of The European Commission to “improve the interaction between research and teaching ensuring that teaching is based on state-of-the-art knowledge and adequately recognised and that graduates have strong analytical and problem-solving skills.”

Official project website: https://platinum.uia.no/