CHARM was established in 2020. Its member universities across Europe - University of Barcelona, Trinity College Dublin, Utrecht University, the University of Montpellier and Eötvös Loránd University Budapest - work together to design and create a new university model of good practice to increase the quality, international competitiveness and attractiveness of the European Higher Education landscape. The consortium decided that they wanted to put together a proposal for a sister project, TORCH, that would focus on research and integrity. TORCH (Transforming Open Responsible Research and Innovation through CHARM) is a three-year programme that began in 2021.