The fourth ENLIGHT Teaching and Learning Conference took place at the University of Tartu from 7 to 9 October 2024. The conference theme was Innovation and Creativity in Higher Education.
The Teaching and Learning Conference
The next Teaching and Learning Conference will take place in Uppsala on 8-10 October, 2025.
Find out more about this year's conference and how to get involved
In support of the educational goals of ENLIGHT, the Teaching and Learning Conference annually convenes teachers, program administrators, educational developers, students and other stakeholders in order to provide teachers with know-how on innovative student-centered and research-oriented learning approaches and other aspects of teaching.
The conference each year broadly includes opportunities to:
- Share, discuss, and celebrate effective or innovative teaching practices that are being realised at the different partner institutions.
- Co-create in-network educational programs, courses, and other related initiatives specific to innovative teaching across ENLIGHT universities.
- Build collective knowledge specifically related to the goals of ENLIGHT
As one of our core events to share ideas and discuss our various teaching and learning practices, this ENLIGHT conference series aims to build a joint knowledge base within our network.
Target Groups for the Conference
- ENLIGHT Teachers: academics, pedagogic leaders, program coordinators, and researchers, with particular emphasis on those designing educational courses and programmes.
- ENLIGHT Students: The ENLIGHT conference strives to include students as presenters, attendees, or both, in order to balance viewpoints between teaching and learning counterparts and stimulate a constructive dialogue.
- ENLIGHT Educational developers: those responsible for disseminating teaching practice in their own universities will benefit from, and add significant value to, this event.
- ENLIGHT Administrative staff: for instance staff from International Offices, IT departments, library personnel, etc.
Find out more about past conferences:
ENLIGHT Teaching and Learning Conference 2023
The 2023 Teaching and Learning Conference took place from 11 - 13 October in Bordeaux. The central theme ‘Empowering students for tomorrow’ brought over 200 students, teachers and educational developers together to share and discuss innovative forms of teaching.
ENLIGHT Teaching and Learning Conference 2022
The second ENLIGHT Teaching and Learning Conference was hosted by the University of Göttingen on November 16-18, 2022. The central conference theme was Diversity and Co-Creation in Higher Education: inclusive approaches on-campus and online.
ENLIGHT Teaching and Learning Conference 2021
The first ENLIGHT Teaching and Learning Conference was hosted by Ghent University on November 18 and 19, 2021. The central conference theme was Learning from and with each other – peer learning across all levels of the university.The theme of peer learning referred to the educational method used in courses and programmes and to learning from each other during and after the conference.