Dear colleagues,

in the frame of Higher Education the Teaching-Research-Practice Nexus (TRPN) considers an equal linking of the subjects to achieve sustainability in applied teaching through a holistic framework, which generally refers to the "research-teaching-practice triangle" according to Kaplan (1989). The methodology underlines the challenges associated with a Nexus approach: the topics to be linked, their linking mechanisms, and the respective communication mechanisms. The conceptual definition underlines the challenges associated with a Nexus approach, for which we intend to collect more information with this questionnaire:

 -   Which topics should be linked to one another in Higher Education using which linking mechanisms?

 -   Which communication mechanisms are used at your institution as the basis for linking?

We kindly ask you to support us with the data collection through filling the attached questionnaire. We please you to return the filled questionnaire to  [email protected]. Thank you very much in advance !

You are also kindly invited to share the questionnaire with other colleagues and to put also your informations, suggestions, and recommendations here or into the mail with the returned questionnaire. Filling the questionnaire will take 5 minutes.

Kind regards, Petra Schneider

University of Applied Sciences Magdeburg-Stendal, Germany