European Dialogues

European Dialogue 2025: Co-creation of knowledge together with the Cultural & Creative sectors

The third edition of the ENLIGHT European Dialogue will focus on Co-creation of knowledge together with the Cultural & Creative sectors. The event will be hosted by the University of the Basque Country on 21 – 22 May. The goal of this event is to provide a platform for inspiration and development of bottom-up collaborations between our academics and our regional external partners and to further develop cooperation opportunities in our sixth flagship, namely Culture & Creativity. 

Target groups include   

  • Researchers and teachers members of ENLIGHT teams (early career researchers are particularly welcome).
  • Non-university collaboration partners related to the Cultural and Creative sectors. 
  • Students.  
  • ENLIGHT consortia (funded and non-funded ETNs, Incubator Grants and ENLIGHT+) who are seeking to enlarge their teams, disciplines or reorienting their scopes. 

The programme will include opportunities to:

  • Briefly showcase cooperation schemes already developed within ENLIGHT partners and/or in collaboration activities involving external partners from the Cultural & Creative sector.  
  • Share new ideas and visions on new potential collaboration activities or further development of ongoing collaboration activities inviting participation from the ENLIGHT University Alliance.  
  • Finding new partners to develop existing teams or starting new cooperation partnerships. 

 

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European Dialogue 2023: Digital Innovation in Health & Well-being

The 2nd European Dialogue was hosted by the Universityof Galway on 23-25 May 2023 around the theme Digital Innovation in Health and Well-being. Galway is one of Europe’s premier MedTech hubs and University of Galway is at the heart of this ecosystem. The European Dialogue 2023 created opportunities for open and collaborative engagement and learning among different stakeholders - universities, industry and healthcare professionals.

ENLIGHT European Dialogue 2022: Sustainable Cities and Communities

The 1st ENLIGHT European Dialogue took place at Uppsala University on 11-12 May 2022 around the main theme Sustainable Urban Development and closely linked to SDG 11 ‘Sustainable Cities and Communities’.  The event brought together ENLIGHT external partners, academics, students and project related staff from the nine ENLIGHT regions to reflect on novel approaches to the pressing challenges facing our European regions.

About the ENLIGHT European Dialogues

Every year ENLIGHT organizes an European Dialogue where teachers and researchers of ENLIGHT universities are brought together with stakeholders from all our regional communities around a central theme to elaborate on local challenges and develop new courses or research projects. 

The central theme of the 1st on-site Europen Dialogue in 2022 was Sustainable Cities and Communities. The theme of the European Dialogue 2023 was Digital Innovation in Health & Well-being. 

In 2021 two online European Dialogues focused on connecting representatives from our cities and regions. These sessions are available via our ENLIGHT Youtube-channel.

Communities and Universities: Sharing the journey to shape the future - Part 1

Communities and Universities: Sharing the journey to shape the future - Part 2