EADTU has started the EMPOWERing universities initiative to support policy reform in European higher education with regard to the transition to new modes of teaching and learning and supporting innovation in higher education practices. The pools of expertise will consist of frontrunner institutions from conventional, open and distance teaching universities as well as polytechnics. EMPOWER has now established already 9 fully operational pools of expertise with 80 experts. The experts will share expertise to cover state of the art developments in their relevant pools and share these with visiting experts from associating universities.