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‍ Newsletter – October 2022

Dear ENLIGHT colleagues, 

Enclosed you will find the October 2022 ENLIGHT newsletter with news on events, calls and activities in ENLIGHT or at one of the ENLIGHT partner universities. If you have trouble viewing this email, Click here to view it online.

See the programme for the second ENLIGHT Teaching and Learning Conference and Awards in Göttingen November 2022

Every year, the European University ENLIGHT organises a Teaching and Learning Conference. Teachers, program administrators, educational developers, students and other stakeholders come together to share their know-how on innovative student-centered and research-oriented learning approaches and other aspects of teaching.

The second ENLIGHT Teaching and Learning Conference will be hosted by the University of Göttingen on November 16th, 17th, and 18th, 2022. The central conference theme will be diversity and inclusion in higher education. We invite teachers and learners from the nine ENLIGHT universities to participate, engage in lively discussions and contribute to shaping the ENLIGHT community spirit.

Please feel free to browse the Conference Programme.

If you are interested in participating and would like to enquire about available funding for your attendance, please general ENLIGHT email address of your home institutions.

Call for participation in the 3rd edition of Challenge-based Education training

ENLIGHT promotes innovative teaching and learning approaches, one of them being the Challenge-Based Education (CBE) methodology and this is a call for participants in the 3rd edition of the CBE training sessions for educators.

The focus of CBE is on incorporating real-life cases into the teaching of university courses along with working on students' 21st century skills. CBE is not only for designing new courses, but a teaching and learning strategy that can be introduced into existing courses as smaller teaching units.

This online training opportunity is targeted towards educators or educational designers who would like to gain deeper insights into theory and practice of CBE. The training team will go over relevant frameworks, examples of previous courses and practice applying these principles with colleagues from the ENLIGHT university network. 

Networking Skills for Early Career Researchers - 25th October 2022

This event is brought to you by the ENLIGHT team working on the 'promotion of early career development and imrpove researcher assessment' section of the ENLIGHT-RISE project.

One of the key engagements of ENLIGHT is to create a balanced network across different social, economic and geographic areas in Europe, with careful attention to the way expertise and opportunities are shared across the network, and to develop a supportive structure for talent development, career guidance, and business ideas.

In this online workshop we will hear from two researchers who will share their experience of networking and how it has helped them build professional networks and research collaborations.

ENLIGHT Student Network launches Sustainable Best Practice guide

The ENLIGHT Student Network is proud to launch a guide of sustainable best practices across our nine ENLIGHT universities.

With the guide the 'SN' aims to raise awareness about the responsibility of universities to address the world's most pressing challenges (SDGs), and to share and gain inspiration for our path to go greener. To this end, the SN highlights three best practices at each ENLIGHT university to learn from each other and to provide an inspirational framework to learn, listen and help each other in achieving more.

Download the full ENLIGHT Student Network Sustainable Best Practice guide (.pdf)

ENLIGHT online language courses for students and staff

Take a virtual language course together with ENLIGHT students and colleagues! Several partners are opening up virtual language courses for students and staff of the different partner universities.

Experts in linguistics and multilingualism are working together in ENLIGHT, exchanging best practices and discussing ideas and initiatives such as language policies and language testing practices, linguistic entry requirements, approaches towards multilingual awareness and multilingual citizenship and opportunities for promoting multilingual initiatives within ENLIGHT. They have agreed to open a selection from the online course offer for learners across the network. Students and staff can participate under the same conditions as local students or staff.

Explore the online language course offer on the ENLIGHT website.

The first ENLIGHT interdisciplinary course Designing Research on Different Dimensions of Equity

From 12 to 16 September 2022, the Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences of Comenius University hosted the first ENLIGHT interdisciplinary course Designing Research on Different Dimensions of Equity.

Students from partner universities from Göttingen, Ghent and the University of the Basque Country met with teachers from Groningen, Bratislava, Göttingen, Ghent and the University of the Basque Country to reflect together on the topics of equality, diversity, equal opportunities in different areas of life, from the university environment to access to healthcare. It was the opening week of the BIP (a Blended Intensive Programme course format that combines short-term mobility and collaboration in virtual space).

ENLIGHT Repository of Good Practices on Research Impact

The repository of international good practices on research impact assessment and measurement aims at bringing together in a single place good practices of impact assessment and measurement, both in the context of ENLIGHT Universities and worldwide. More specifically, the tool aims to raise research impact awareness and literacy, whilst fostering mutual learning and debate between ENLIGHT University academics, staff and external experts around research impact.

Visit our Impact Repository.

‍ Current calls for funding

These calls are currenly open for institutional funding to support ENLIGHT innitiatives:

• Call for ENLIGHT initiatives at Ghent University.
• Ghent University - Call for Scientific Research Network on Climate Change.
• Uppsala University opens call for activities in education within ENLIGHT.
• University of Bordeaux - Call for ENLIGHT Education and Research Initiatives.

‍ ENLIGHT partner news and events

The following news and events relate to an ENLIGHT partner but may be of thematic interest to the wider ENLIGHT community:

• UGent podcast on mental health: Unpublished.
• University of Tartu sets out to increase climate awareness.
• Human Rights Centre recognized the University of Tartu with the quality label “Respecting differences”.
• Uppsala alumnus Svante Pääbo wins Nobel Prize in medicine.
• University of Groningen PhD Jamie Behrendt develops website on micro electricity grids in the European Union.

The new ENLIGHT partner match-making tool to stimulate and extend cooperation links within the ENLIGHT community was launched. Researchers and other staff members who are looking to join forces with colleagues in the ENLIGHT community to develop a joint project, extend an initiative or start a new collaboration can submit their request via the new partner search form.

‍Find ENLIGHT colleagues with our partner search tool!

The ENLIGHT partner match-making tool to stimulate and extend cooperation links within the ENLIGHT community was launched. Researchers and other staff members who are looking to join forces with colleagues in the ENLIGHT community to develop a joint project, extend an initiative or start a new collaboration can submit their request via the new partner search form.

‍Current partner searches:

• Interdisciplinary training with university students: Quality Education and Social Transformation.
• International exchange on issues of disconcertment in school, physical education and/or recreational sports.
• Joint Classrooms and Summer Schools in the field of teacher Education.
• Mammalian cell transfection and bioprocessing for protein production.

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