Events and Training
The ENLIGHT Teaching & Learning Hub runs regular training and events, through ENLIGHT and via partner institutions.
We welcome the participation and engagement of all of our ENLIGHT community in these events, both through attendance and via the organisation and facilitation of events.
We would also like to invite any partner institutions running internal teaching and learning events to open these up to the ENLIGHT community, so that everyone can benefit from shared perspectives and experiences.
Events and Training Calendar 2025
🗺️ Teaching Mobilities with ENLIGHT: Far-Reaching Small Steps
“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step”
Guest lecturing at an ENLIGHT partner university is a low-hurdle and efficient step for academics to start or intensify study and teaching cooperative actions across the alliance. ENLIGHT holds a multilateral, crossdisciplinary mobility agreement that includes study, teaching and training activities; this simplifies the application process and supports guest lecturing.
A general rule of thumb is for candidates to still check at their home institution, in case additional requirements need to be met for academics to travel on a staff teaching mobility. ENLIGHT teams at each institution can also offer some direct support or redirect academics interested in finding peers to other supporting services at each university. ENLIGHT offers yearly funded cooperation calls for academics who have built a team and need some financial support to implement different initiatives. Staff teaching mobilities are impactful experiences benefitting not only the lecturer, but also all the student body benefitting from the international perspective the visiting academic offers to their usual home content.
If you plan to apply for some Erasmus+ staff teaching mobility funding, don´t hesitate to turn to the mobility office at your institution, or to the ENLIGHT team for further reference.
📆 Sep 29th: Digital Leadership in Higher Education - open online course
Designed for those who lead, manage, or coordinate a team of colleagues teaching in higher education (but open to anyone in the sector), this open course recognises the fast pace of change of technology and varying levels of confidence in using tools to genuinely support or enhance learning.
By using the European Digital Competence Framework for Educators (DigCompEdu) as a basic scaffold, the course will provide an overview of the technology and educational landscape in higher education in addition to empowering you to build a richer picture of your own institutional context, before focusing on different dimensions of teaching and student learning, and concluding with suggestions for how you might develop an effective strategy for your own team, department, or school. The course is open to any staff in higher education but will be of particular interest to heads of department/school, team or programme leaders, or other academic staff with responsibilities for course design and management.This course takes place over six weeks, with a digital badge available for successful completion.
Start Date: Sep 29th
Register and learn more about the course here
📆 Sep-Nov dates: Erasmus+ ROCKET Trainings for Teachers
Dates: Available Sep-Nov, register by Sep 1
Advancing DEI through Critical Virtual Exchange, Role-Playing Games, and Conflict
Transformation
Are you a teacher in a university? Do you want to learn more about effective ways to address conflict, including issues related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)? Are you interested in experiential learning methods for practicing socio-emotional skills? Consider joining our online training!
The Erasmus+ ROCKET project is holding an international online training in the Fall connecting topics related to DEI to skill building in conflict transformation. This training will take place in a Critical Virtual Exchange (CVE): an innovative format that includes asynchronous discussions with video conferencing sessions.
This teacher training will be open to members from the ENLIGHT network.
Register here
📆 Oct-Nov dates: Erasmus+ ROCKET Trainings for Admin Staff
Dates: Oct-Nov, register by Sep 29
Advancing DEI through Critical Virtual Exchange, Role-Playing Games, and Conflict Transformation
Are you admin staff in a university? Do you want to learn more about effective ways to address conflict, including issues related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)? Are you interested in experiential learning methods for practicing socio-emotional skills? Consider joining one of our online trainings!
The Erasmus+ ROCKET project is holding an international online training in the fall connecting topics related to DEI to skill building in conflict transformation. This training will take place in a Critical Virtual Exchange (CVE): an innovative format that includes asynchronous discussions with video conferencing sessions.
This admin staff training will be open to members from the ENLIGHT network.
📆 Oct-Nov-Jan dates:Training Event: Collaborative international online learning
Training Event: Collaborative international online learning: methods and concepts for designing a virtual exchange
Video conference rooms and (a)synchronous communication platforms can do much more than simply allow us to transfer our teaching into virtual spaces – they open up new ways to enrich our courses and expand our students’ learning experiences. One example is the opportunity to connect and collaborate with colleagues and students from other universities. This can take the form of a joint classroom, virtual exchange, or Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL).
This workshop will help you discover and understand the added value that virtual exchange can bring to your own teaching. Academics from the Ghent University, the University of Göttingen und Uppsala University will gain first-hand experience of working in a joint classroom. Together, we will explore what conditions are needed to successfully integrate virtual exchange into your course, and we will discuss the challenges (your) students may face – and how to address them. By the end of the workshop, you will be familiar with practical tools and strategies for designing, planning and running your own joint classroom or virtual exchange. You will have had the chance to test some of these ideas in practice, laying the groundwork for implementing meaningful cross-institutional and international collaboration in your own courses.
Dates and times:
November 26, 2025, 9:30-12:30 and self-study time
December 10, 2025, 9:00-13:00 and self-study time
January 14, 2026, 9:00-13:00
Learning Outcomes:
Participants...
- have become familiar with the different phases of a virtual exchange; they have discussed and documented ideas for designing their own joint teaching initiative.
- have experienced, based on their participation in this course together with colleagues from Ghent and Uppsala, where possible hurdles may lie for their future students and have developed strategies to prevent these in their own virtual exchange
- can name relevant aspects for the preparation and implementation of virtual exchange and evaluate their influence on their own teaching context
Registration:
Participants can register with their respective university:
Ghent University: please contact Mansi Sharma This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
University of Göttingen: please register via https://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/678240.html
Uppsala University: please contact Björn Nyström This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
📆 Oct 9th: Building better HE futures in an era of authoritarianism and big tech
Seminar Title - Building better HE futures in an era of authoritarianism and big tech
Speaker - Catherine Cronin
Time and Date - 9th October 12-1 GMT, 1-2 CET - in person and virtual
Register here
This seminar is part of the Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching Galway's regular sessions during term time on a variety of topics, sharing practice, introducing new ideas, promoting services, and highlighting topical issues. These hybrid sessions interleave discussions about teaching and learning with technology-focused overviews, and provide a mix of national and international perspectives.
📆 Oct 16th: Academic Integrity Showcase
Seminar Title - Academic Integrity Showcase
Speaker - Anna-Louise Hinds, Dr Micheál Newell, Dr Frank Glavin, Justin Tonra and Micheál Ó Cadhain, University of Galway, as part of Academic Integrity Week 2025
Time and Date - 16th October 12-1 GMT, 1-2 CET - in person and virtual
Register here
This seminar is part of the Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching Galway's regular sessions during term time on a variety of topics, sharing practice, introducing new ideas, promoting services, and highlighting topical issues. These hybrid sessions interleave discussions about teaching and learning with technology-focused overviews, and provide a mix of national and international perspectives.
📆 Oct 23rd: Student attitudes to and expectations of AI in Higher Education
Seminar Title - Student attitudes to and expectations of AI in Higher Education
Speaker - Dónal Mulligan, Dublin City University
Time and Date - 23rd October 12-1 GMT, 1-2 CET - in person and virtual
Register here
This seminar is part of the Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching Galway's regular sessions during term time on a variety of topics, sharing practice, introducing new ideas, promoting services, and highlighting topical issues. These hybrid sessions interleave discussions about teaching and learning with technology-focused overviews, and provide a mix of national and international perspectives.
📆 Nov 6th: Development of a National Recognition Framework for Teaching & Learning
Seminar Title - Development of a National Recognition Framework for Teaching & Learning
Speaker - Sharon McGreevy, Learning and Teaching Policy Advisor, National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching & Learning
Time and Date - 6th November 12-1 GMT, 1-2 CET - in person and virtual
Register here
This seminar is part of the Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching Galway's regular sessions during term time on a variety of topics, sharing practice, introducing new ideas, promoting services, and highlighting topical issues. These hybrid sessions interleave discussions about teaching and learning with technology-focused overviews, and provide a mix of national and international perspectives.
📆 Nov 13th: Constructive Disruption: A Critically Optimistic Vision for GenAI in Education
Seminar Title - Constructive Disruption: A Critically Optimistic Vision for GenAI in Education
Speaker - Kelly Webb-Davies, University of Oxford
Time and Date - 13th November 12-1 GMT, 1-2 CET - in person and virtual
Register here
This seminar is part of the Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching Galway's regular sessions during term time on a variety of topics, sharing practice, introducing new ideas, promoting services, and highlighting topical issues. These hybrid sessions interleave discussions about teaching and learning with technology-focused overviews, and provide a mix of national and international perspectives.
📆Nov 20th: Data Centres and Ireland's Carbon Budgets (Online)
Seminar Title - Data Centres and Ireland's Carbon Budgets
Speaker - Hannah Daly, University College Cork
Time and Date - 20th November 12-1 GMT, 1-2 CET - in person and virtual
Register here
This seminar is part of the Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching Galway's regular sessions during term time on a variety of topics, sharing practice, introducing new ideas, promoting services, and highlighting topical issues. These hybrid sessions interleave discussions about teaching and learning with technology-focused overviews, and provide a mix of national and international perspectives.
