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ENLIGHT’s Regional Academy events offer actors outside of academia the opportunity to invite students and researchers within their professional field from across Europe to join them in tackling their challenges.
ENLIGHT assists the host by matching the challenges with the participants from relevant educational programmes throughout the universities in the ENLIGHT alliance.
Taking place 14–15 October 2026 in Bern, Switzerland, this Regional Academy brings together academics, public authorities, industry actors, and local communities to explore how research can offer answers to challenges related to food systems. Using the established AIMday concept, researchers will meet representatives from external organisations to discuss real world challenges.
In June 2026, the Gotland Game Conference (GGC) celebrates its 20th anniversary. For the first time, the conference will host an ENLIGHT Regional Academy as a dedicated track, co-organised by Uppsala University and Region Gotland.
The Regional Academies connect ENLIGHT to local and regional actors within each partner university’s communities. The Regional Academies provide a forum for identifying local variations of the ENLIGHT Flagship Domains. Local challenges then serve as the basis for a number of outcomes such as new challenge based courses in a living lab model, opportunities for students to do their thesis projects or as start-up projects for research and innovation.